F-Secure Products Are Vulnerable, Warns F-Secure
News In a security bulletin, F-Secure said that an attacker could execute the code of his choice on affected systems by using specially crafted ZIP files to circumvent F-Secure antivirus products and cause a buffer overflow.
[January 19, 2006, 16:20]
Worm Hits Corporate Networks Hard
News While first noticed in Israel on Sunday, the worm -- also known as TROJ_EXPLORE.ZIP and I-Worm.ZippedFiles -- struck hardest in the United States on Thursday, shutting down several major companies for hours and deleting critical files.
[June 14, 1999, 8:36]
Palin's Email Account Hacked Via Social Engineering
News Since Tuesday, anonymous posters using a forum on the 4chan.org website have been circulating password-protected zip files containing the contents of the now-deleted email account once belonging to Palin.
[September 19, 2008, 15:04]
MyDoom Spreading Again
News By now a lot of companies are already blocking dodgy zip files and quite a few of the infected e-mails are automatically blocked as spam. Another variant of the MyDoom worm, which spreads by sending copies of itself using its own SMTP engine and...
[February 17, 2005, 8:05]
'Private Photos' Worm Could Launch DoS Attack
News Schmugar said one of the more unusual aspects of the worm -- which McAfee classified as a "moderate" threat -- was its use of a Zip file, which could prove to have longer legs than the .exe files most worms try to spread.
[November 3, 2003, 8:15]
File-name Flaw Threatens PGP Users
News It is just like a ZIP file," Kurtz said. PGP runs into problems when it tries to encrypt or decrypt files that have names longer than 200 characters. When PGP attempts to decrypt the files, a buffer overflow causes it to crash.
[September 6, 2002, 6:56]
Brad Pitt Virus Targets Microsoft
News However, the emails contain a .zip file that contains the worm. People's appetite for salacious gossip is insatiable, and some may be tempted to run what appear to be pornographic movie files distributed across the Internet," said Sophos.
[March 31, 2005, 15:10]
Google Revamps Desktop
News Other new features include advanced search forms, spelling suggestions for queries, the ability to disable indexing, the addition of zip file indexing and an improved preferences page. Google Desktop search can now be locked with a Windows password...
[February 9, 2006, 9:15]
Does Zip Have A Future?
News Iomega has launched a new Zip 750 drive in a version that supports USB (universal serial bus) 2.0 connections and plans to unveil a FireWire model at next month's Apple Expo in Paris. Zippier Zip When available, the FireWire Zip 750 will sell for...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
