Microsoft admits music hack, promises fix
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Microsoft Corp. has acknowledged the existence of a program circulating on the Internet that could circumvent its copy protection for online music, but said it was working on a fix.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft Corp. plans to patch its Windows and Visual Studio products next week, but it does not have a fix in the works for aÂ widely publicized flaw in Word, which hackers are reportedly exploiting in targeted attacks. The company's security team is readying five sets of patches for Windows, and will also issue a single critical security update for Visual Studio, Microsoft said in an alert published Thursday. Microsoft rates the most serious of its Windows updates as "critical," meaning an attacker could exploit the underlying flaw to run malware on a victim's PC with no user action, the company said. These security patches are usually released on the second Tuesday of each month, and the company strives to publish a small number of updates in December, because IT operations are often short-staffed during the holiday season. On Tuesday, Microsoft warned of a vulnerability in its Word software that had been reportedly used in online attacks. Security researchers rated this flaw critical, because an attacker could exploit it to run malicious software on a victim's PC. For such an attack to work, however, the victim would first have to be tricked into opening a maliciously encoded Word file. The Word flaw is not scheduled to be patched next Tuesday, said a spokesman for Microsoft's public relations firm. There is, however, one critical Visual Studio flaw that may be addressed in the updates. That bug is in Visual Studio 2005's WMI Object Broker ActiveX object. It was first reported in late October.
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The patches released Tuesday mend four software holes in Microsoft Corp Windows operating system, including one flaw that can affect machines equipped with a massive security upgrade the company released five months ago.-The Washington Post
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Hunt for copy-protection nemesis goes legal Microsoft has launched a lawsuit against the unknown hacker who created a program to strip DRM code from Windows Media Player files.â¦
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft released a patch for its latest &quot;critical&quot; rated security flaw affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software programs, the company said Tuesday.
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Microsoft yesterday officially acknowledged -- albeit two weeks after its discovery -- that a vulnerability in Windows Media Player found by security research team eEye Digital Security could indeed become an exploitable problem. Thankfully, no exploit seems to have turned up yet.
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Fix for critical security hole in Windows Media Format was added to Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates at the last moment.
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Just a week after Microsoft released a patch to plug a security flaw in the way at least 13 of its programs handle the JPEG imaging format, code appeared on the Internet on Wednesday showing how to exploit those holes.
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Microsoft said over the weekend that an issue with its Windows Genuine Advantage validation systems -- which were causing verified systems to fail and lose access to features -- had been fixed.
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Microsoft Corp has released a patch for its latest âcriticalâ rated security flaw affecting its Windows, Office and developer tools software programmes.
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Microsoft has issued fixes for more than 20 holes in its software in its February security update.
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Though Microsoft fixed a bug in Windows Live that enabled spoofed user accounts, it could still lead to fraud.
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Microsoft Corp. released four software patches Tuesday to fix security flaws, including one that could allow hackers to take over computers running the company's instant messaging programs.
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Microsoft has fired back against hackers who had broke into the Xbox 360 console to run their own code by masking an patch to disable such activity within a system update billed as a fix to the console's online systems.
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Users of the music player should watch out for hacked themes; a flaw allows would-be intruders to take control of PCs.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2004 (REUTERS) - Microsoft Corp. today released a patch for its latest &quot;critical&quot; security flaw affecting how Windows, Office and developer tools software process images in the JPEG image format.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday released a patch to fix a critical security flaw that could allow an attacker to infiltrate someone else&#39;s computer, if the user was persuaded to open a specialized file.