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Microsoft Releases Patch For IE Flaw
News The flaw occurs in Internet Explorer's domain security, the technology that keeps applications running in the Internet domain from accessing data on the PC or local domain, for example. By taking advantage of this flaw, a Web page could bypass the...
[February 6, 2003, 8:13]
Microsoft Denies Spoofing Is A Security Flaw
News The software giant accepted the possibility that spoofing could occur on version six of IE, but rejected claims that this was a security flaw. Microsoft has denied that a spoofing technique available on its Internet Explorer browser is a security...
[November 2, 2004, 13:44]
Microsoft Plays Down IE Flaw
News Microsoft has given more details on an Internet Explorer (IE) security bug discovered this week, saying the flaw puts only some systems at risk. In another possible restriction on the flaw's scope, only specific versions of the Microsoft DDS...
[August 22, 2005, 9:25]
Microsoft Fixes Faulty IE Patch
News Microsoft has released an updated version of a faulty Internet Explorer patch to fix a serious security flaw introduced by the original version. At the same time, eEye Digital Security disclosed that the crash was an exploitable security flaw...
[August 25, 2006, 8:50]
Microsoft: IE Hole Worse Than Reported
News A representative of Microsoft, which has come under fire for its security policies, said the company had changed its original rating of a flaw in IE versions 5.5 and 6 as a result of comments posted to the Bugtraq online bulletin board by a...
[December 9, 2002, 8:19]
Internet Explorer Patch Is Flawed
News There's more trouble with Microsoft's latest Internet Explorer (IE) patch: it introduces a serious new security flaw on some Windows systems. That crash, it turns out, is the result of a "buffer overrun" flaw introduced by the security update...
[August 23, 2006, 8:45]
Microsoft May Rush Out IE Patch
News The flaw, first reported last week, is increasingly being used in attacks on IE users, security experts warned on Monday. Attacks that exploit the flaw have been broadening and now also use email as a way to lure people to malicious websites...
[September 26, 2006, 9:55]
IE Flaw Puts Credit Card Info At Risk
News Privacy and security expert Richard Smith verified the IE security flaw by writing a tiny bit of JavaScript to hijack information contained in a cookie. But because of the IE security flaw, personal data transferred to Web sites with the highest...
[November 12, 2001, 9:42]
Explorer's Office Links Cause Security Alert
News There are "a couple of dozen" sites that exploit the IE flaw disclosed last week in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-038, according to Websense. The flaw is similar to security vulnerabilities Microsoft fixed as part of its monthly patch release...
[August 18, 2005, 13:15]
Microsoft Patches Serious IE Flaws
News Microsoft on Tuesday provided a fix for a "critical" security flaw in Windows that is being exploited in online attacks against Internet Explorer users. This flaw could let an attacker take complete control of an affected system, but requires the...
[December 14, 2005, 9:00]
New IE Flaw Details Published
News The discovery of this latest IE flaw comes two weeks after Microsoft released several "critical" security patches, including one for IE. Microsoft has issued a security advisory for Internet Explorer, after a research firm published a working...
[July 4, 2005, 9:15]
Microsoft IE Bug Leaves Users Vulnerable To Phishing
News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), the net security watchdog, released a security alert on Friday warning of a flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer which allows attackers to run programs on a user's computer.
[June 14, 2004, 13:05]
Fix Released For Flawed Open-source IE Patch
News Earlier this month, weeks after the IE flaw was discovered, Iain Mulholland, security programme manager for Microsoft, said the company was putting heavy emphasis on increasing the quality of its patches, and that has had an effect on the release...
[December 22, 2003, 14:25]
All Windows Systems Vulnerable To Jscript Flaw
News Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-008 reports that a heap overflow flaw in the Windows Script Engine for Jscript (specifically, Jscript.dll) can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on a vulnerable system if the user visits a Web page containing...
[March 31, 2003, 13:40]
IE And Outlook Flaws Reported
News The vulnerability is only the latest IE security flaw researchers have discovered since Microsoft released a cumulative update for the browser last month, Puterbaugh said. A security flaw has been found in the default installation process for...
[September 7, 2005, 8:00]
IE And Firefox Hit By Bug
News The flaw that affects both IE and Firefox is related to the handling of a technology that is used to access documents delivered from one Web site to another, according to the advisory. Attackers could exploit the IE or Firefox flaw using cross-site...
[June 30, 2006, 10:10]
Warning On IE 7 Pop-up Problem
News Secunia noted that the security flaw can affect a fully patched system running IE 7 and Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2. Last week, a security flaw was discovered in IE 7 that could spoof the address of a pop-up window.
[October 31, 2006, 10:56]
Microsoft Alerts Passport Users To Need For Patch
News Microsoft is pressing .Net Passport users to install a patch for some versions of its browser nearly two months after it fixed a security flaw that threatens customers' personal data online. In November, Microsoft warned that the flaw could expose...
[January 4, 2002, 11:54]
Latest IE6 Vulnerability Explored
News Ferris claims credit for discovering the problem and said he informed Microsoft of the flaw on 14 August. Ferris recommends people pick a different Web browser or use caution when surfing the Web to protect against any exploitation of the latest IE...
[August 30, 2005, 16:30]
'Critical' Windows Fix Rushed Out
News Security experts had pushed Microsoft to rush out a fix for the VML flaw. Microsoft deems the flaw "critical", its highest severity rating. The last time the software maker rushed out a fix was in January, when another image-related flaw in IE was...
[September 27, 2006, 10:05]
