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Core Flaw Opens Windows 2000 To Attack
News A serious flaw has been discovered in a core component of Windows 2000, with no possible work-around until it gets fixed, a security company said. You can't uninstall.eEye declined to give more details on the flaw or the Windows 2000 component in...
[August 4, 2005, 9:15]
New Flaw In NT And Windows 2000 Servers
News Its first Security Bulletin of the year (MS03-01) is rated critical because it addresses a flaw that can open up Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 servers to arbitrary code execution by a remote attacker.
[February 3, 2003, 10:37]
Windows Update Flaw 'left PCs Open' To MSBlast
Talkback Well, I've been trying to download the Windows 2000 version of the fix from the Microsoft download centre, however it just times out - I guess so many folk are trying to get their hands on it that the server can't cope?
[August 15, 2003, 15:16]
Attackers Target Zero-day Windows Flaw
News Some of the software that may be affected includes Windows 2000, Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003. People running Windows Server 2003 and 2003 Service Pack 1 in the default configuration with the Enhanced Security Configuration...
[November 7, 2006, 8:48]
Critical Flaw Opens Windows To Rogue Java
News As stated above, good security practices would probably block the attack vector on the one critical flaw, so there may not be a real need to apply this patch. One of the first security bulletins to rate Microsoft's new, tougher Critical criteria is...
[December 24, 2002, 22:52]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
Talkback I have been using Windows NT and then 2000 since 1997 and have never had a worm/virus problem before, despite the fact that I don't have anti-virus software installed (would it have saved me from MSBLAST?
[August 13, 2003, 22:56]
Windows Update Flaw 'left PCs Open' To MSBlast
Talkback Microsoft announced this vulnerability around 1 month ago, and I upgraded my operating systems, also i forward this information to my friends, but Microsoft did not make a public announce? If they was able to see such a problem then what was their...
[August 18, 2003, 14:51]
Windows 2000 IIS5 Security Patch: HTTPEXT Overflow Vulnerability
Downloads IIS 5.0 contains a flaw affecting the way that an URL is handled if it has a specific construction and its length is within a very narrow range of values. Microsoft has released a patch that eliminates a security vulnerability in Microsoft Internet...
[September 13, 2007, 7:53]
Windows 2000 IIS5 Security Patch: Malformed WebDAV Request Causes IIS To Exhaust CPU Resources - English
Downloads Microsoft has released a patch that will eliminate a flaw that exists in the way WebDAV handles a particular type of malformed request. If a stream of such requests were directed at an affected server, it would consume all CPU availability on the...
[September 13, 2007, 8:06]
Windows 2000 Users Face Multiple Attacks
News It also copies itself to the Windows System directory, appearing as WINTBP.EXE. Users rushing to protect themselves from the Zotob worm are being warned not to take their eyes off other threats as McAfee raises its alert level on the newly...
[August 17, 2005, 15:45]
Windows API 'flaw' Sparks Security Debate
News A security researcher has stirred up a new controversy around the security of the Windows operating system, with claims that a flaw in the design of the Windows architecture has led to vulnerabilities in an unknown number of Windows applications.
[August 8, 2002, 13:18]
Windows Image-handling Flaw Lets In Attackers
News However, code that exploits the third flaw and can crash an application running on Windows has been posted to the Internet, Microsoft, in August, warned of a similar flaw, which is related to an error in the way
[November 9, 2005, 9:10]
Flaw Discovered In Windows Server 2003 Backup
News But the discovery of the flaw, originally reported by Computer Reseller News, has tempered his enthusiasm. Microsoft is working to solve an incompatibility issue that prevents backups made with Windows Server 2003 from being read on previous...
[May 23, 2003, 8:19]
Windows HTML Flaw Persists
News Instead, it said that the problem is a new flaw in HTML Help control that was not tackled in the update. Antivirus specialist GeCad Net is warning that it has found a problem with Microsoft's most recent software patch for Windows.
[January 25, 2005, 8:10]
Windows ME Flaw Exposed
News Microsoft has issued a software patch for what it calls a critical security flaw in its Windows Millennium Edition operating system, according to the company's Web site. Microsoft has issued a patch for the flaw that can be downloaded by Windows ME...
[February 27, 2003, 15:34]
Exploit Code Out For Windows Flaw
News Two examples of computer code that exploit a flaw in Windows Media Player have become available only days after Microsoft released a patch to fix the bug. The "proof-of-concept" exploits that take advantage of a flaw in the media player were posted...
[February 17, 2006, 8:45]
Credit Card Theft Feared In Windows Flaw
News Microsoft late on Wednesday said that a flaw in its Windows operating system could allow hackers to gain unauthorised access to thousands of computers. The flaw affects how more than a dozen Microsoft products, including programs for Windows and...
[September 9, 2002, 10:56]
Security Flaw Hits Windows, Mac, Linux
News Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Unix-based operating systems and Mac OS X, as well as Kerberos authentication systems.
[August 7, 2002, 11:54]
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]
New Windows Flaw Similar To MSBlast Bug
News The third is a denial-of-service flaw that affects a component known as the remote procedure call (RPC) process. Although the flaws were announced Wednesday, researchers at the CERT Coordination Center, a clearinghouse for information on Internet...
[September 11, 2003, 10:57]
