Exploit code makes IE flaw more dangerous
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Program targets vulnerability, prompting security firm Secunia to issue "extremely critical" rating.
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A bug in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2 can let hackers spoof Web content, such as a trusted site, with their own fake content, the Redmond
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A security researcher has found a security bug that could be attacked in Internet Explorer. Mozilla Corp. said it plans to patch the problem in its next Firefox software update.
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Exploit code affecting an unpatched flaw in an image uploader used by both Facebook and MySpace is circulating publicly.
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Attacks exploit IE flaw, and allow attacker to gain complete control of your PC.
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A fix for a serious flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been released early to combat escalating attacks.
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Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 do not properly handle JavaScript "onUnload" events and can be tricked into taking a user to the wrong URL, according to security researcher Michal Zalewski.
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Fixes made for "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
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Sample code that exploits a yet-to-be-fixed Windows flaw is circulating. Microsoft plans to deal with it on the next Patch Tuesday.
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Take heart, Internet Explorer users. Now it appears that virtually every Internet browser program - not just yours - poses a security risk.
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(InfoWorld) - It has become a familiar pattern: A hacker posts exploit code to a security Web site; Microsoft follows soon after with a warning to customers. The pattern was repeated again Thursday, only this time Microsoft's warning that it is investigating "new public reports" of a critical bug in Windows comes more than two months after sample code showing how to take advantage of the flaw was posted to the Web. Microsoft's advisory can beÂ found here. The flaw that Microsoft warned about is in an ActiveX control (called WebViewFolderIcon) used by the Windows' graphical user interface software. It was first disclosed on July 18 as part of aÂ month-longÂ project byÂ hacker HD MooreÂ to expose problems in browser software. Moore's blog post on the flaw can beÂ found here. Moore called his project theÂ "Month of Browser Bugs"Â and ended up disclosing a total of 22 Microsoft vulnerabilities during the period. A few days ago, Moore quietlyÂ added exploit codeÂ for this latest flaw to his Metasploit hacking tool. The exploit caught Microsoft's attention after it was posted to theÂ milw0rm.com Web site,Â Moore said. But the security researcher believes that any competent hacker could have developed an exploit based on his July blog posting. So far, Microsoft has patched only two of Moore's flaws. In fact, Microsoft engineers haven't even been able to investigate close to a third of the vulnerabilities, Moore said. Microsoft executives could not immediately be reached for comment, but the company's security advisory said this latest WebViewFolderIcon bug will be patched on Oct. 10. "We have been in contact with HD Moore and at this time our investigations have revealed that most issues relating to Internet Explorer in particular will result in the browser closing unexpectedly," Microsoft's public relations agency said Thursday in a statement. "Because of their nature, most of these issues will more likely be resolved through a service pack release rather than a security update." Microsoft has been busy this month, rushing out an emergency, "out-of-cycle" fix for a flaw in Internet Explorer's Vector Markup Language (VML) rendering engine that was being widely exploited by attackers. Microsoft has even more work ahead of it, according to Moore. In early August, he handed Microsoft another 70 bugs that he had not publicly disclosed. Still, he believes that more of his flaws should have been fixed by now. "I was kind of amused that they would do an out-of-cycle patch for the VML bug, but would let all of these lapse," he said. Microsoft has told him that at least four of his bugs are "exploitable issues," meaning that an attacker could take advantage of them to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer, Moore said. Earlier this week, SymantecÂ said that Microsoft was the slowest of the major browser-makers at patching its bugs during the first half of this year. But according to Symantec's numbers, Microsoft patched IE bugs, on average, nine days after the public disclosure of a flaw. Most of the 22 Month of Browser Bugs flaws have been in public for two months now.
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A vulnerability in Internet Explorer spells potential trouble for Skype users who add or play video in their chats.
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A new variant of the MyDoom worm that exploits an unpatched flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer (IE) browser is in the wild and posing particular risk to home and small business users, security experts warned this week.
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Danish security research firm Secunia has reported a vulnerability that occurs in most browsers that can be exploited by hackers looking to spoof the content of Web sites.
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Security researchers are warning of another pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp.&#39;s Internet Explorer browser affecting users on fully patched Windows XP Service Pack 2 systems.
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Will a trifecta try at fixing Internet Explorer patch be the charm?
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Better install Microsoft's latest patches--hackers have posted attack code to exploit the flaws in Works.