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RSS vector in newsMicrosoft 'critically' patches 'worm hole'
News Recent examples include the Windows Animated Cursor Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (April 2007), a vulnerability in Vector Markup Language (September 2006), and a vulnerability in the Graphics Rendering Engine... [24 Oct 2008]
Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'
News So it's not unreasonable to suspect that that's going to be the next attack vector, particularly as we depend more and more on mobile devices. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London, former advisor to the... [24 Apr 2008]
Rootkit to protect Trojans goes live
News Exploits include Microsoft JVM ByteVerify, two versions of Microsoft MDAC to cater for multiple Windows systems, Microsoft Internet Explorer Vector Markup Language, and Microsoft XML CoreServices. Until late in December... [10 Jan 2008]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News Given the root access provided by these tools, they provide at least one vector for attack. Another vector is Safari, which when opened also opens several applications including: Address Book,... [14 Aug 2007]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News Apple's iPhone could provide an attack vector for malware authors but the threat from the new device, which is only a few weeks old, is as yet unknown. So far this year, Apple users have been exposed to the kind of... [12 Jul 2007]
CIO Jury: Viruses still a major security threat
News The combination of sufficient minor repackaging of an existing exploit, so that it passes antivirus unnoticed, with social engineering hooks to lure the unwary can still provide a workable attack vector. [25 Jan 2007]
Windows attack code made public
News The attack code exploits a flaw in the way Windows handles Vector Markup Language, or VML, documents, which are used for a type of high-quality graphic on the web. Computer code that exploits a security vulnerability in... [17 Jan 2007]
Redmond patches Windows, Office flaws
News The vulnerability lies in a Windows component called 'vgx.dll' that is meant to support Vector Markup Language (VML) documents in the operating system. VML is used for high-quality vector graphics on the... [10 Jan 2007]
Vista: 'Expect hackers to find holes'
News The probable attack vector will be Internet Explorer 7, the web browser bundled with Vista, said Gostev. Antivirus experts from Kaspersky Labs have predicted 90 per cent of current malware will run on Microsoft's latest... [12 Dec 2006]
IE 7 'download frenzy' underway
News Web browsers, including IE 7, can be used as the vector in an attack that exploits the Outlook Express flaw, Budd wrote. A day after its release, some minor issues with Internet Explorer 7 materialised but overall the... [20 Oct 2006]
Attacks still battering unpatched Windows flaws
News This component is meant to support Vector Markup Language (VML) documents in the OS. Microsoft issued a rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch on Tuesday that fixed one flaw but attacks through other known, yet-to-be-plugged... [28 Sep 2006]
Microsoft slaps quick fix on IE flaw
News This component is meant to support Vector Markup Language (VML) documents in the operating system. VML is used for high-quality vector graphics on the web and is used for viewing pages in the IE browser... [27 Sep 2006]
Redmond working "non-stop" on IE patch
News This component is meant to support Vector Markup Language documents in the operating system. VML is used for high-quality vector graphics on the web. Microsoft may offer an Internet Explorer security... [26 Sep 2006]
Dodgy porn sites tap IE flaw
News This component is meant to support Vector Markup Language documents in the operating system. VML is used for high-quality vector graphics on the web. Miscreants are using an unpatched security bug in... [20 Sep 2006]
New IE security flaw could aid phishing scams
News Our initial investigation has revealed that customers who have set their internet security settings to high, or who have disabled active scripting, are at reduced risk from attack as the attack vector requires... [07 Apr 2006]
