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Tag Archives: microsoft
Serious Internet Explorer vulnerability
Symantec “describes”:https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?message.uid=341705 a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows a website with malicious content to install a Microsoft-signed ActiveX control and then exploit a known vulnerability in that control: bq. Because the control is Microsoft signed, its installation is silent, … Continue reading
Tagged ie, microsoft, stopbadware
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Microsoft bug denial reportedly leads to exploit
A researcher from security firm Kaspersky “reportedly claims”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1361 that he told Microsoft of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer “a long time ago,” but Microsoft didn’t consider it a security issue. Now, he claims he has found an example of an … Continue reading
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New vulnerability found in IE6
Ryan Naraine over at the Zero Day Blog “reports”:http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1348 that a new vulnerability has been found in Internet Explorer 6 running on Windows XP with service pack 2 or 3: bq. An unpatched cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft’s flagship Internet Explorer … Continue reading
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Apple Fixes Safari Vulnerability on Windows
About a month ago, we “questioned Apple”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/05/19/safari-security-questioned-sbw-encourages-action for characterizing a Safari security vulnerability as a “feature” issue, not a security issue. This issue got “further attention”:http://blogs.stopbadware.org/articles/2008/06/12/safari-vulnerability-now-a-blended-flavor when Microsoft announced that the Safari vulnerability combined with a Windows vulnerability could lead … Continue reading
Tagged apple, microsoft, safari, stopbadware, windows
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Microsoft: Web attacks on the rise
Robert McMillan over at ComputerWorld “reports”:http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9079558&intsrc=hm_listx that Microsoft has found a significant increase in web-based attacks in the past year: bq. Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious e-mail in favor of Web-based attacks, according … Continue reading
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New service pack for Office 2003
Microsoft has released a new service pack (service pack 3) for Microsoft Office 2003, the pervasive suite of applications that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. This service pack reportedly fixes a long list of security vulnerabilities in these applications. … Continue reading
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