Patches Archive
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:10 PM/EST
Symantec reported tha it is seeing quite a bit of malware activity related to the newly-reported IE memory corruption flaw, with attacks centered in Asia.
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Microsoft Windows
Monday, December 08, 2008 5:15 PM/EST
Secunia reports that based on a free scanning application that it has distributed to end users over the last year, less than 2 percent of PCs are fully updated with patched software.
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Patches
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 11:18 AM/EST
Some of the biggest names in the IT software business still are very lax when it comes to fixing security holes reported by third-party brokers. According to a list maintained by TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Computer Associates...
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Patches
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:43 PM/EST
There's a serious brain drain affecting the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative and it's not a good sign for security. The latest high-profile defector from the nonprofit organization is Walter Bender, a former MIT Media Lab executive who...
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Open Source
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:55 PM/EST
Security researcher Petko D. Petkov (aka pdp) has discovered a gaping hole in fully patched versions of Apple's QuickTime for Windows Media Player. The zero-day vulnerability allows an attacker to use rigged movie (.mov) files to take full control of...
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Apple
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:12 AM/EST
Adobe has issued a prepatch advisory for a critical vulnerability in Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2, its free image-manipulation software product. The flaw, which affects Windows users, could be exploited to launch code execution attacks if the target is...
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Flaws
Monday, April 21, 2008 4:44 PM/EST
Microsoft's Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3) is finally here, offering several subtle security goodies alongside thousands of bug fixes. The biggest security feature in this service pack is the inclusion of NAP (Network Access Protection) to help organizations...
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Microsoft Windows
Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:40 PM/EST
OpenOffice has issued a high-priority update to fix at least six vulnerabilities affecting users of its free desktop productivity suite. The open-source group said the critical vulnerabilities affect OpenOffice.org suite versions prior to 2.4. An alert from Symantec's DeepSight...
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Open Source
Friday, April 18, 2008 12:36 PM/EST
[[ UPDATE: Here are the slides from Cerrudo's HiTB talk (.pdf) that prompted Microsoft's advisory. At the company's request, Cerrudo has opted not to release exploit code. ]] Last month, when I wrote about hacker Cesar Cerrudo's (left) plans to...
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Flaws
Friday, March 28, 2008 10:43 PM/EST
Using a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player, hacker Shane Macaulay hacked into a Windows Vista laptop to win a $5,000 cash prize at this year's CanSecWest Pwn2Own challenge. Macaulay, who uses the "K2" hacker moniker, also won...
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