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RSS flawOracle warns customers of "highly critical" flaw
News Oracle has issued a warning to customers using the most recent version of its ecommerce program of a flaw that puts their systems at risk. In a terse but strongly worded advisory released to customers last week, Oracle... [11 Jun 2004]
Flaw found in MS Java Virtual Machine
News A German researcher at the University of Marburg has uncovered a security flaw in Microsoft's Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The flaw is a bug in Microsoft's bytecode verifier. The explanation by... [18 Oct 1999]
Flaw means Hotmail and Yahoo Mail users vulnerable
News A flaw in the way web-based email services Hotmail and Yahoo Mail filter messages left users open to attack via specially crafted online scripts, a security specialist said on Tuesday. GreyMagic discovered the... [24 Mar 2004]
WinZip "highly critical" flaw zipped up
News WinZip Computing warned last month of a security flaw in WinZip, its compression/decompression tool that runs on the Windows platform. Security firm Secunia has just rated the flaw as "highly critical",... [07 Sep 2004]
Flaw in FrontPage means hacks possible - Microsoft holds up its hands
News Microsoft warned website administrators yesterday that a flaw in its FrontPage extensions could allow an attacker to take control of their servers or cause computers to seize up. For FrontPage Server Extensions 2002, the... [26 Sep 2002]
Flaw mars Kaspersky antivirus software
News A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Labs' antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a security researcher warned on Monday. A remote attacker could exploit the heap overflow... [04 Oct 2005]
Flaw in Office has DoS attack potential
News A security company warned on Thursday that a flaw in Microsoft Office could allow a denial-of-service attack to be executed on systems running somewhat older versions of the popular productivity suite. [08 Oct 2004]
Microsoft points to early Vista flaw
News Mike Reavey, operations manager at Microsoft's Security Response Center, revealed last Friday that Vista is vulnerable to a flaw that allows a malicious hacker to escalate user privileges within several versions of Windows. [28 Dec 2006]
Linux systems at risk from major security flaw
News A major security flaw has been uncovered in a basic Linux application that can put systems at risk from cyber-attack. The vulnerability, discovered by researchers at Linux vendor Red Hat, is a buffer overflow in the zlib... [12 Mar 2002]
Windows API flaw sparks security row
News Chris Paget, a freelance security researcher, has claimed a flaw in the design of the Windows architecture has led to vulnerabilities in an unknown number of Windows applications. The attack makes use of a... [09 Aug 2002]
Verizon probes security flaw
News The Vodafone subsidiary's web server flaw was first discovered by US developer Marc Slemko, who posted his findings on the security professional's mailing list Bugtraq. The US wireless operator Verizon's web site has a... [05 Sep 2001]
Sainsbury's slips up with credit card flaw
News But it has run into trouble after a design flaw in its live pilot site exposed customer credit card details.silicon.com reader Nigel Beaumont found the fault when he checked his account details online. [15 Oct 2001]
Apache flaw opens networks to malicious code
News The Apache flaw could allow an attacker to discover sensitive information or execute malicious code, while the Windows bug makes it possible for users to gain privileges high enough to alter files and user accounts. [20 Aug 2002]
'Microsoft', 'security flaw', make your own headline
News Microsoft has warned that a security flaw in Word could allow a document to hijack files from any Windows PC on which it's opened, the software giant warned on Thursday. Details of the flaw were first... [13 Sep 2002]
Microsoft owns up to latest Windows flaw
News A second flaw occurs in a Java class that's provided to support the use of XML via Java, but allows all programs - not just a select few - to use the methods. Microsoft has issued a warning relating to two new critical... [19 Sep 2002]
