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InternetNews December 30, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Windows 0-Day Exploit Helped by Open Source? Is Metasploit helping to spread the zero day outbreak, or is it helping security professionals to protect against it? The answer depends.
InternetNews April 2, 2007 Michael Hickins	Game On: Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch Microsoft is issuing the patch in advance of its usual Patch Tuesday schedule to counter role-play game hackers.
InternetNews February 18, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Hackers Target IE 7 Browser Again Users who failed to patch their computers after Microsoft released its monthly Patch Tuesday update last week could be in trouble - an Internet Explorer browser vulnerability for which the patch was sent out is under attack again.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Readies WMF Patch The zero-day Windows Metafile exploit is to be patched in the first update of the year.
InternetNews October 26, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Hacker Criminals Find An Exploit In a Fix Adobe issues a fix to an exploit that could allow a rootkit to be installed on unsuspecting computers. The bad guys craft an exploit off that fix within a day.
InternetNews October 6, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft Plans Nearly Dozen Patches Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows operating system and the widely-used Office application suite are part of 11 patches slated to be released next week, according to a Microsoft.
InternetNews February 26, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Worms Continue to Wriggle, Wreak Havoc 'Zero-day' exploits and new styles of viruses send security firms scrambling to patch the latest holes in the network.
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Type Virus Attack Called 'Imminent' Exploit code for 'critical' Windows ASN.1 flaw could lead to major network disruption. Microsoft Patches 'Critical' ASN.1 Flaw
PC World February 21, 2007 Ryan Singel	Zero-Day Malware Attacks You Can't Block No matter how diligently you patch your PC, it may still be vulnerable during the first hours of a previously unseen attack. Here's what you should know about zero-day hazards and the security holes they exploit.
InternetNews February 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Another Week, Another MS Word Exploit Emerges Microsoft is investigating new public reports of "very limited, targeted attacks" against Microsoft Word.
InternetNews September 28, 2006 Ed Sutherland	PowerPoint, IE Hit By New Zero-Day Flaws Software giant Microsoft is investigating yet another zero-day flaw attacking its Office suite of applications.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 Andy Patrizio	New Worm Counts On Lazy Admins In a twist from their usual methods, virus writers have written an exploit to a patch that Microsoft issued this week, hoping to take advantage of IT shops that are slow on the draw.
InternetNews July 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Windows 2000 Exploit Code Released Exploit code for a known security flaw in Microsoft Windows 2000 has been posted online, putting millions of users at risk of a PC hijack. Apply those MS04-019 and MS04-022 security patches as needed.
InternetNews April 5, 2006 David Miller	Spyware For The Masses Stealing personal information on the Internet is becoming easier, thanks to do-it-yourself kits and tutorials.
InternetNews March 23, 2006 David Needle	Warning on Malicious Bot Hitting Banks A security firm claims 'Metafisher' has spread to a million computers (and growing) through a Windows security hole. It is considered the most sophisticated bot focused on financial fraud.
InternetNews October 2, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Second Third-Party Windows Fix Appears As Microsoft waits, unofficial patches become an established answer to sudden security threats.
InternetNews January 5, 2006 Jim Wagner	Microsoft Patches WMF Flaw Early Facing customer complaints, and users going to unofficial patches for the answer, Microsoft fixes a critical flaw five days early.
InternetNews October 23, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Rushes Out Urgent Windows Fix Microsoft is rushing out an emergency security fix outside of its regular patch schedule for Windows users.
InternetNews March 15, 2010	Microsoft Developing Patch for IE Zero-Day Flaw Microsoft scrambles to deliver a workaround to protect against a zero-day exploit in its Internet Explorer browser, says it is developing a more permanent patch.
InternetNews February 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft's Security Valentines As part of its traditional "patch Tuesday," Microsoft has released seven fixes for its media player and other Windows applications.
InternetNews January 3, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Exploit Surfaces in Web Browser PDF Plug-Ins Several security firms have found a vulnerability in the Adobe Reader that is surprisingly easy to initiate and also very dangerous.
InternetNews February 23, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Apple's Safari Still a Sitting Duck? US-CERT issues an alert for MAC OS X, as zero-day exploit stays open. Switching browsers is the current remedy.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Jim Wagner	IE Frame Exploit Grabs Keystrokes iDefense warns of an exploit that can grab login and password information from Web surfers.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Hackers Attack ActiveX Flaw in IE IE 5.01 and 6 users warned to disable ActiveX while the Microsoft investigates.
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Sharon Gaudin	Hackers Exploiting Zero Day Windows Flaw The Zero Day exploit of the Windows Metafile bug has racked up six variants as of Thursday afternoon and has left security analysts wondering what's coming next.
InternetNews January 10, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Critical Patches Follow Windows WMF Trouble Microsoft issues two critical patches as part of January's monthly patch cycle, with similar warnings to the Windows Metafile image processor exploit.
InternetNews August 14, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Many Critical Fixes From Microsoft Today Microsoft's monthly patch cycle was unusually large this month, with nine Security Bulletins addressing a total of 14 vulnerabilities.
InternetNews April 15, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	A Jump on Security Advisories (For a Fee) iDefense customers get software security advisories well ahead of the rest of the world.
InternetNews November 8, 2005	'Critical' Patch Released For Windows November's monthly fix from Microsoft includes a critical fix to three bugs affecting the graphics rendering engine in several versions of Windows.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Fewer Patches Means More Testing For Microsoft Patch Tuesday release load gets cut in half, but not because the problems went away.
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PC World December 17, 2001 Russell Pavlicek	Is Linux Immune to E-Mail Viruses? Immunity is impossible, but the open-source operating system may be protected...
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Exploits Circulating for JPEG Flaw Just eight days after Microsoft released a fix for a "critical" flaw in the way JPEG files are processed, researchers have discovered proof-of-concept exploit code that is targeting unpatched machines.
InternetNews February 8, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft Warns on Windows, IE Flaws Microsoft is warning Windows and Internet Explorer users to take steps to prevent two security exploits. The two advisories affect Microsoft Windows Millennium and Internet Explorer 5.
PC World October 23, 2006 Stuart J. Johnson	Bugs and Fixes: Drive-By Downloads Cruise Through IE Internet Explore graphics bugs... Patch a critical hole in Macromedia Flash Player... More vendors recall laptop batteries... Mozilla fixes... Security hole in PowerPoint 2000-2003... etc.
InternetNews January 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	CERT's Best-Worst Vulns of 2005 Though there were more reported vulnerabilities, Linux is still seen as likely more secure than Windows.
InternetNews December 28, 2004 Tim Gray	Santy Worm Moves On The Santy.A worm uses search engines to find websites running forum software with an exploitable PHP security hole. Less than a week after Google stopped the worm, variants are reportedly utilizing other search engines.
PC World March 2006 Stuart J. Johnston	Prevent Attacks Aimed at IE and Windows New Microsoft two-in one patch for Internet Explorer... Clear up problems with seemingly corrupt Acronis True Image data backups...
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Tim Gray	Windows Exploit Code Online The exploit code can lead to a remote system compromise, where an attacker can take control of an affected computer. A patch for this code is available online.
InternetNews March 25, 2010	IE8, Firefox, Safari, and iPhone All Get Pwned As expected, security researchers found exploits in all of the targeted platforms in a contest that put browser security to the test.
InternetNews June 18, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Massive Web Exploit Emerges One of the largest Web site exploits/compromises ever has hit the Web, with more than 10,000 compromised computers redirecting unsuspecting visitors to sites hosting malicious software payloads.