Buggy ActiveX controls menace Yahoo! Messenger
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Webcam! library! peril! ActiveX controls - so often the source of Internet Explorer flaws - are the font of two newly discovered flaws in Yahoo! Messenger.â¦
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Citing a vulnerability made public earlier this week, Microsoft is requiring users of older versions of its MSN Messenger IM client to update to Windows Live Messenger 8.1 -- unless they're running Windows 2000.
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PHPKitchen has an interesting post covering one of the banes of most web developers existance - the "back button problem".
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Microsoft has released yet another hotfix&#39;to fix a newly discovered problem in its XP Service Pack2 (XP SP2) release.
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Yet another zero-day flaw affecting Yahoo Messenger has been posted online, bringing to nine the number of such vulnerabilities aimed at the IM software this year.
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ActiveX strikes again Just one day after nasty security flaws were disclosed in Yahoo's Music Jukebox, miscreants have begun to actively exploit them.â¦
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Jikes is a great compiler but they could really benefit from better project management.  This bug  has been open for greater than 3 years now with no resolution.  One of the developers sent me a *private* email (without commenting or closing the bug) this this could be fixed by avoiding the use of symlinks but wasn't sure. Of course this email was sent more than 2 years ago so I have no decent way of finding it.  Adding insult to injury is the fact that IBM won't let me comment on the bug without an account.  The only problem is that my account won't activate.  In a nutshell if you want to use incremental compile with jikes you need to specify relative paths not full paths.  For example if y ...
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Also: Windows worm travels with Tetris [News.com Extra]
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Fixes made for "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
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Both Windows and Mac versions of the multimedia program have a buffer overflow flaw that puts users at risk.
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Ten security flaws found in Firefox browser, Thunderbird e-mail client.
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Just one day after hackers showed how to exploit a number of flaws in the ActiveX software used by Internet Explorer, Symantec has spotted online criminals using one of the attacks.The attack, which was first observed in the last few hours, is not widespread at present. Symantec Security Response Director Oliver Friedrichs said Tuesday that the company had identified just three Web sites that were hosting the attack code, all of which seem to be linked to the same criminals. But he believes that more attacks are inevitable as the bad guys work the code into their malicious toolkits of software. &quot;Given the fact that the proof of concept is available and works, it&#39;s not exactly rocket science for someone to plug this into [a toolkit],&quot; he said. &quot;That&#39;s likely to happen in short order.&quot;Security researchers Elazar Broad and Krystian Kloskowski have disclosed a slew of ActiveX bugs affecting MySpace and Facebook over the past few days, but the attack reported by Symantec takes advantage of a flaw in an ActiveX control used by Yahoo&#39;s Music Jukebox.After the attackers are able to install software on the victim&#39;s machine, they then begin installing a number of malicious files on the victim&#39;s computer, Symantec said.Broad and Kloskowski also discovered a second ActiveX bug in Yahoo Jukebox, but that flaw is not yet being exploited by attackers, according to Symantec. Another major source of problems is the Aurigma ImageUploader ActiveX control, which is used by Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace to upload pictures into Internet Explorer.Because of all the ActiveX bugs, Security experts are warning users to be cautious while Web browsing. On Tuesday, US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) published a note encouraging users to disable ActiveX controls, which can be done by setting Internet Explorer&#39;s security level to &quot;high&quot; for the Internet zone.That may not be a realistic option for many consumers, who will find their Internet Explorer browsing experience hobbled without ActiveX, Friedrichs said. But tech-savvy users and corporate IT shops can take steps to disable the untrusted ActiveX controls. In fact, the SANS Internet Storm Center has published free software that disables the controls.Another option for enterprise users is to create a whitelist of approved ActiveX controls, Friedrichs said.Security problems with browser add-ons are very common. In the first half of 2007, Symantec identified 237 browser plugin security flaws. About 89 percent of centered on ActiveX.Yahoo did not immediately respond to an e-mail message requesting comment for this story.
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What Yahoo! can do for Microsoft--and what it can't.
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No ETA yet on Yahoo Messenger for Vista public beta, which is three months late.
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InfoWorld - A recent string of high-profile ActiveX vulnerabilities caused the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advise users to disable the ubiquitous Microsoft browser plug-in technology altogether. The vectors for these recent exploits include a third-party image uploading tool used on both the Facebook and MySpace social networking sites, and flaws found in Yahoo's Music Jukebox, Real Networks' RealPlayer, and Apple's QuickTime.
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Will a trifecta try at fixing Internet Explorer patch be the charm?
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Microsoft is forcing Messenger users to upgrade in order to patch a security vulnerability.