Hackers Post Attack Code for Works Bug
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Better install Microsoft's latest patches--hackers have posted attack code to exploit the flaws in Works.
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On eve of Patch Tuesday, hackers jump Word segment of Microsoft Office in second attack.
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Ziff Davis - Holes in KOffice and RealPlayer allow attackers to take over a user's system.
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Rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch fixes one flaw, but attacks through other known, yet-to-be-plugged holes continue.
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Blog: Low ransom request and a self-termination date on the code suggest this is a test attack.
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Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system.
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Unpatched vulnerabilities may leave computers open to remote attacks.
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InfoWorld - Just one day afterÂ Microsoft issued a massive set of security patches for its software, hackers have begun posting code showing how to exploit one of the flaws.
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Adobe has patched two bugs in its Acrobat Reader application that could allow an attacker to take over a user&#39;s system via a malicious PDF attached to an e-mail message.
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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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Security experts uncovered yet another bug in Internet Explorer this week, one that could let attackers replace the content of any legit site with their own, making it possible to spoof critical pages such as e-bank account access log-in forms or credit
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A bug in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 and Proxy Server 2.0 can let hackers spoof Web content, such as a trusted site, with their own fake content, the Redmond
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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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For the third time this week, hackers have released attack code that exploits a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word. The proof-of-concept code, which addresses a previously unknown Word vulnerability, was posted Tuesday.
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Patch corrects a flaw in F-Secure's antivirus software that would have allowed remote code execution.
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A researcher has posted proof-of-concept code for a zero-day flaw within Mac OS X dealing with its handling of disk image (.dmg) files. The issue causes a memory corruption vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
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Shhh, don't tell anyone RealNetworks has patched a vulnerability in its RealPlayer and HelixPlayer software that made it possible for attackers to run arbitrary code on a victim's machine. The security hole affects applications running on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.â¦