vulnerabilities advisory
Windows 7: Unaffected by latest zero-day flaw
News We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerabilities or of customer impact at this time. Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly release for patches, which included five critical Windows updates addressing... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft's Patch Tuesday to fix five critical holes
News Four additional vulnerabilities, rated "important", affect Windows and Windows .NET Framework and could allow an attacker to remotely execute code, launch a denial-of-service attack or elevate system privileges, the... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft releases emergency patch to plug critical ActiveX hole
News It's an industry-wide problem when [vulnerabilities] do happen. A library can get used in a lot of places, and vulnerabilities in libraries are challenging," Reavey said. The IE patch also resolves three... [29 Jul 2009]
Flash hole fix coming next week, says Adobe
News The vulnerabilities can be mitigated by disabling the Flash plug-in or by using the NoScript extension for Mozilla Firefox or SeaMonkey to whitelist sites that can access the Flash plug-in, Cert said. [24 Jul 2009]
Mozilla releases five fixes to extinguish Firefox 3 critical bugs
News Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 3.0.12, an update to the open-source browser that fixes five critical security vulnerabilities and fixes a handful of other bugs. Version 3.0.12 fixes five critical problems and one... [22 Jul 2009]
Oracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News In its security advisory, published alongside the patches on Tuesday, the software maker gave two of the vulnerabilities its highest possible severity rating. Some of the vulnerabilities... [16 Jul 2009]
Microsoft DirectX gets fix in Patch Tuesday
News The critical vulnerabilities affecting various Windows versions all could allow an attacker to run code remotely, while one of the non-critical holes involving Virtual PC and Virtual Server would allow remote code... [10 Jul 2009]
Apple goes on a security Safari with browser patches
News Apple has released an update for its Safari 4 web browser, which fixes two serious vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to conduct a cross-site scripting attack or take over a user's system. The more serious of... [09 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0 patches 46 security holes
News Independent security firm Secunia ranked the most serious of the vulnerabilities as "highly critical". For instance, vulnerabilities in the CoreGraphics component could be used to launch an attack when a... [19 Jun 2009]
Adobe patches hole after exploits found in the wild
News Earlier in the day, Microsoft issued updates for a number of critical and important vulnerabilities in Windows as part of this month's Patch Tuesday. In its advisory, Adobe said it plans to provide... [11 Mar 2009]
SQL Server vulnerability warning from Microsoft
News The advisory comes less than a week after Microsoft released a critical security patch to plug vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer amid malicious attackers taking advantage of the security flaws.... [23 Dec 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News But he added the UK government felt the risk of a cyber terrorist attack was low due to a "lack of capability and difficulties with understanding the vulnerabilities in the infrastructure". He said the CPNI was committed... [29 Oct 2008]
Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Secure Shell Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
White Paper The Secure Shell server (SSH) implementation in Cisco IOS contains multiple vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated users the ability to generate a spurious memory access error or, in certain cases, reload the device. [12 Jun 2008]
Office Excel at risk from attack
News Microsoft has issued a security advisory that malicious attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 with Service Pack 2, Excel Viewer 2003,... [17 Jan 2008]
Microsoft grappling with critical foursome
News Microsoft plans to issue four "critical" security bulletins next week that address vulnerabilities in Windows Mail, Internet Explorer and Windows XP. Six bulletins in total, including the four critical fixes, will be... [08 Jun 2007]
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