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Hole opens Office 97 users to hijack
News The hole, which is present on any Windows or NT system containing Version 3.51 of Microsoft's "Jet" database engine, allows an e-mail message or Web page to execute an arbitrary command on the user's system.
[July 30, 1999, 16:32]
Microsoft plugs Qhosts hole
News Microsoft releases a cumulative patch for Internet Explorer this weekend, plugging a security hole that had been used by Trojan horse program QHosts to compromise consumers' PCs. The patch -- the fortieth that Microsoft has issued this year...
[October 7, 2003, 9:05]
Microsoft patches 'important' security hole
News The security hole could, at worst, constitute a privacy threat, as it only allows an outsider to read information in the attacked media library. Microsoft released fixes on Wednesday for security risks that could make Windows 2000 Server and...
[June 26, 2003, 7:45]
Apache patch covers HTTP security hole
News The new version of Apache also fixes a hole in the software authentication module that could let malicious users launch a limited denial-of-service attack that would prevent authorised users from logging on to the server under siege.
[May 30, 2003, 10:13]
Security hole in IE5, patch in progress
News Microsoft this week said a security hole in its Internet Explorer 5.0 browser could enable Web site operators to read files on visiting users' PCs. The security hole does not allow malicious operators to list the contents of folders, create, modify...
[October 14, 1999, 10:46]
Hole in MS security brews Java storm
News Another security hole in Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that allows a computer to be manipulated freely by a rogue applet, has been uncovered by a researcher at the University of Marburg in Germany.
[October 13, 1999, 10:38]
A Year Ago: Microsoft addresses another IE hole
News Microsoft has issued a security bulletin concerning a potentially dangerous new variation of the Cuartango Hole in Internet Explorer 4.01 and Windows 98 that BugNet reported last month. Like its predecessor, The Son of Cuartango Hole bug exploits...
[November 23, 1999, 6:07]
Dangerous CVS hole identified
News The security hole allows attackers to take control of a CVS server and alarmingly, it may also allow anonymous attackers to fiddle with open-source code at the development level. An exploit for this potentially devastating security hole is not...
[January 23, 2003, 8:54]
Router security hole threatens Web
News Using such digital forgery could allow an attacker to redirect traffic, to wiretap data, to create an information "black hole" and even to masquerade as another server, Dugan said. The border gateway protocol (BGP), a widely used technology for...
[March 3, 2003, 10:58]
Critical Adobe Reader hole discovered
News A critical security hole in Adobe Reader could allow an attacker to take control of a computer, according to Core Security Technologies. Core Security immediately reported the new hole to Adobe. The vulnerability affects version 8.1.2 of Reader...
[November 4, 2008, 15:59]
Unix/Linux shops -- beware of Kerberos hole
News The Debian Security Advisories on Kerberos 4 and 5 confirm that exploit code is in circulation for this vulnerability, so it is a serious security hole and not just a theoretical problem. The Kerberos Administration daemon (kadmind), which is used...
[November 11, 2002, 16:54]
Google blocks phishing hole
News Google has acknowledged the presence of a phishing hole on its Public Service Search application and has blocked access to the service until the problem is fixed. Search giant Google confirmed the existence of the security hole in a statement...
[September 19, 2006, 9:40]
Unpatched security hole detected in ICQ
News A security hole that may allow an attacker to run malicious code on a victim's PC has been detected in AOL's ICQ chat program. To date, there have been no reports of this security hole being exploited.
[January 25, 2002, 16:43]
Facebook email privacy has a hole
Blog Anyway, this may already be a known security hole, but if so then I'd love to know why Facebook hasn't closed it. This was certainly a surprising discovery! Here's the text of a message I sent out to all my Facebook contacts today:
[January 12, 2008, 12:58]
Black Hole
Downloads Inspired by Bubble Breaker, edgeWind Creative Media Studios has created Black Hole! Black Hole is a game where the player must bust clumps of same-color planets to gain points. Each clump must be at least two adjacent planets, and if you need to...
[March 19, 2009, 6:00]
Microsoft: IE hole worse than reported
News Microsoft on Friday raised its threat rating for a security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser to "critical," in response to criticism of its initial assessment of the hole's danger. The first security hole exposed millions of Web servers and...
[December 9, 2002, 8:19]
IE security hole launches e-mail attachments
News A security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser can cause the browser to automatically open e-mail attachments that could be used by an attacker to execute malicious code, the company has warned.
[April 2, 2001, 8:06]
Microsoft's Gopher hole deepens
News Microsoft issued a "critical" security alert about a hole in its Internet Explorer browser that could allow hackers to use an outdated Internet protocol to seize control of people's computers. The hole is especially problematic because an IE user...
[June 13, 2002, 9:08]
Microsoft under pressure for latest Hotmail hole
News Microsoft is under pressure to fix a security hole in Hotmail that allows hackers to access other people's emails -- in some cases even emails that have been deleted. Less than a fortnight after the MSN Hotmail servers were infected by the...
[August 21, 2001, 13:07]
Experts warn of IE Gopher hole
News The security company, which reproduced the flaw in IE 5.5 and IE 6.0, warned that a hacker would not even need to run a full Gopher server to take advantage of the security hole. A Finnish security company on Tuesday warned that hackers could...
[June 6, 2002, 7:32]
