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Worm Exploits Solaris Hole
News The worm takes advantage of a security hole in the Solaris telnet service that was first disclosed earlier this month. A computer worm is using a recently disclosed flaw in Sun' operating system to propagate, experts have warned.
[March 1, 2007, 8:06]
Explorer Flaw Creates 'critical' Worm-hole
News Vulnerabilities that crash applications frequently suggest the possibility of a bigger problem, but Finisterre said other conditions could make exploiting the hole harder. A vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could result in the...
[June 26, 2003, 9:07]
Worm Spread Shows Hole In Patch System
Talkback The AccessGuard detected and blocked the first Blaster worm on the network of on of our customers in the early morning of the 9th of August. None of our customers is infected by this worm, and we had the same thing with other worms like Code Red...
[August 13, 2003, 12:16]
Worm Spread Shows Hole In Patch System
News The ability of the MSBlast worm to spread has underscored the view that today's methods of patching security flaws, while necessary to lock down specific computers, are too time-consuming to react to critical vulnerabilities.
[August 13, 2003, 9:35]
Symantec Patches Antivirus Worm Hole
News Symantec over the weekend delivered fixes for a high-profile flaw in its corporate antivirus products that could be exploited in an Internet worm attack. Because Symantec's software is so widely used, this could cause havoc on the Internet — for...
[May 31, 2006, 8:35]
Microsoft Issues Patch For Potential 'worm Hole'
News On Thursday, Microsoft issued a rare, out-of-cycle patch for a vulnerability in the Windows Server service that handles remote procedure calls, which allows programmers to run code either locally or remotely.
[October 24, 2008, 16:22]
Microsoft On Alert For Worm Attack
News A day after Microsoft released its fixes, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a rare alert urging Windows users to plug the potential worm hole in the operating system. The release of the attack code, which exploits a security hole in a...
[August 14, 2006, 9:40]
Worm Attacks MSN Messenger
News A worm that uses Microsoft's MSN Messenger application to exploit a browser glitch emerged late on Wednesday and spread rapidly, despite the existence of a patch covering the security hole, according to experts.
[February 14, 2002, 14:38]
Code Red Sets Off New Alarms
News Wed 1 Aug: Microsoft is taking the blame for a hole in its Internet Information Server that allowed the worm to infect thousands of servers in its last outbreak The worm takes advantage of a hole in Microsoft's Internet Information Server.
[July 31, 2001, 15:42]
Fortnight Worm Redirects To Porn Sites
News Increased infections from versions of the Fortnight JavaScript worm, which exploits a hole in Microsoft VM Active X, are being reported by some antivirus vendors. Graham Cluley, senior technical consultant at Sophos, told silicon.com that although...
[June 23, 2003, 10:55]
Worm Holes Found In Hotmail And Yahoo! Mail
News Hotmail and Yahoo have left open a security hole that could be exploited to create a self-mailing worm that, while not damaging, could clog Internet mail servers, a security expert said this week. For the webworm to be active, a hole must exist on...
[June 4, 2001, 9:05]
AOL Rushes To Block Messenger Hole
News AOL Time Warner on Wednesday pledged to close a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could provide wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm. In this case, Conover warned that the security hole left the door...
[January 3, 2002, 8:37]
AOL Plugs AIM Security Hole
News AOL Time Warner on Thursday plugged a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could have provided wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm. In this case, Conover warned that the security hole left the door open...
[January 4, 2002, 11:02]
Microsoft: ' Patch Now'
News If left unpatched, the security hole could allow a worm to spread quickly throughout the Internet, causing an incident similar to the MSBlast attack last summer. One security hole affects computers running the Windows Internet Naming Service, and...
[February 11, 2004, 7:30]
ISS Products Targeted By Witty Worm
News The worm, dubbed Witty.A, was designed to breach a security hole in the company's widely used firewall product line-ups such as its BlackICE and RealSecure software series. ISS posted an update to patch the hole on its Web site late last week but...
[March 22, 2004, 9:05]
News Schmooze: Security Alert!
News Just look at this week's warnings: a problem with the Java Virtual Machine for Windows, the Klez worm programmed to destroy on Wednesday (although it didn't seem to do much destroying), a security hole in PHP that could lead to a new Code Red...
[March 8, 2002, 12:40]
Microsoft Exposes Serious IE Vulnerability
News Furthermore, the software giant has disclosed that it has known about the security hole for more than six months. Microsoft admits major IE hole Meanwhile, Sony's recent spyware incident has spurred the US Congress to get involved, and the Sober...
[November 29, 2005, 16:45]
Global Alert For Next Round Of Code Red
News As originally reported by CNET News.com, the worm takes advantage of a hole in Microsoft's Internet Information Server. Guarding against the worm is a relatively straightforward matter of installing a Microsoft software patch that prevents any...
[July 31, 2001, 8:48]
Windows Attack Code Released
News The code takes advantage of a security hole in a key operating system component that routes file system and print requests called the "Workstation Service". In August last year, Zotob slithered into Windows 2000 systems through a hole in the plug...
[November 17, 2006, 9:29]
'Code Red' Worm Claims 12,000 Servers
News The worm spreads by selecting 100 IP addresses, scanning the computers associated with them for the hole, and spreading to the vulnerable machines. Microsoft urged people to patch the hole before the Internet underground could produce tools to take...
[July 19, 2001, 9:56]
