Holiday Attacks Target IE Browser, PHP Servers
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Ziff Davis - Over the Christmas weekend, security hackers taunt Microsoft's security efforts with a new Windows proof-of-concept exploit that takes advantage of several unpatched bugs. And a new version of the Santy worm targets PHP scripts.
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A new malicious mass e-mail infected computers across the Internet on Wednesday.
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Web servers may be vulnerable to attack, security company warns.
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A hacked server in Germany fed malicious code to unsuspecting Internet Explorer users at an unknown number of Web sites for several hours over the weekend, a banner ad-serving company acknowledged Monday.
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Meanwhile, a second unofficial fix is out as attacks on Internet Explorer users are reportedly increasing.
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Because Internet Explorer is one of the programs vulnerable to a newly discovered Windows image flaw, it is possible that someone could fall victim to a virus written to exploit it just by visiting a Web site that uses JPEG images.
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Blog: Thousands of Web sites worldwide now host links to malicious code servers.
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Security firm Secunia reported that the vulnerability affects nearly all browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Opera, Netscape and Safari.
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Security experts are reporting several new Windows and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities at year-end, including a flaw in the way Windows handles image files, and another involving IE and SP2 help files.
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A computer virus posing as an electronic Christmas card is spreading across the net in many languages.
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New vulnerabilities include a critical flaw in Internet Explorer and a "major" bug in Firefox.
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Floor by flaw The latest versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows and (in the case of Firefox) Unix systems are vulnerable to attacks that could reveal the contents of sensitive files residing on a victim's hard drives.â¦
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Users of the Mozilla and Firefox browsers and the Thunderbird e-mail client may be vulnerable to flaws that could allow an attacker to spy on or take over a system, according to security researchers.
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A feature dating back to the Internet's HTML 3.0 era is causing problems for Internet Explorer 7, forcing Microsoft to issue an update for Windows Vista just one day after its public launch. Web sites using frames causes IE7's phishing filter to evaluate the page multiple times, leading to high CPU usage.
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It&#39;s not just good cheer that spreads during the festive season. Also extending their tentacles are a plethora of computer viruses even as e-greeting cards sly about cyberspace.
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The &quot;highly critical&quot; vulnerabilities stem from a flaw in IE&#39;s drag-and-drop feature and in the browser&#39;s security zone.
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The Zafi.d worm seems to have done its worst, security experts said Friday, but they urged users to remain on guard through the holidays for more seasonal shenanigans.