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InternetNews November 27, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
SANS: Zero-Day Exploits on The Decline Latest Top 20 Vulnerabilities release shows a decrease in actual zero-day attacks, but that's not necessarily a good thing.  |
InternetNews December 8, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Keeping an Eye Out For The Zero Day Security firm eEye Research this week launched its Zero Day Tracker as an effort to help the broader IT community track zero-day vulnerabilities.  |
InternetNews May 1, 2006 David Miller |
Zero-Day Attacks an Ongoing Menace Security report from the SANS Institute details biggest Internet vulnerabilities.  |
InternetNews December 6, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Don't Open That Word File, Microsoft Warns A new Word vulnerability targets Windows and Mac users, according to Microsoft.  |
InternetNews July 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
SANS: No Safety From Vulnerabilities IE vulnerabilities still abound, but Apple, Mozilla and Real Player users have little to gloat about.  |
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 May 22, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Word Attack Hails From China Security researchers warn Microsoft Word zero-day exploit is aimed at government e-mail systems.  |
InternetNews November 23, 2009 |
Zero-Day Exploit a Threat to IE6 & 7 Browsers? Another zero-day hole emerges in key Microsoft software.  |
InternetNews January 19, 2010 |
Microsoft to Ship 'Out-of-Band' Patch New zero-day hole aided hackers in Google attacks and required immediate action.  |
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 December 1, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Backup Software Under Attack A SANS report on top security vulnerabilities finds that backup and recovery software has become a favorite target of hackers.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Malware Thrives Despite Improved Security: IBM Security researchers at IBM's X-Force find 6,601 new software vulnerabilities in 2009, down 11 percent from last, but that hasn't stopped hackers and phishers from finding new ways to rip off consumers.  |
InternetNews March 11, 2010 |
Researcher Releases Exploit for IE Zero-Day Hole A modest security warning about a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has quickly grown into something much larger thanks to the work of a hacker.  |
InternetNews July 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Exploits Fish For Unpatched PCs Security vendor Symantec alerted customers to two exploits using already-patched vulnerabilities.  |
InternetNews January 21, 2010 |
Microsoft Serves Up Zero-Day Fix for IE Flaw Microsoft issued a cumulative update for most Internet Explorer versions in order to shore up a gaping security hole that left Google and dozens of other companies open to attack from Chinese hackers.  |
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Hackers Change Course A new SANS 2005 Top 20 list of Internet vulnerabilities shows a shift in what attackers are going after. And it's not just operating systems anymore.  |
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 February 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Microsoft Clamps Down on Excel Zero-Day Attack Microsoft is taking steps to protect customers from attacks through a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Excel discovered earlier this week.  |
InternetNews February 3, 2010 |
At Black Hat, IE Under Attack (Again) Older vulnerabilities resurface in Internet Explorer, as one researcher warns how attackers can turn IT into a "public file server".  |
InternetNews July 14, 2009 |
Microsoft Blocks Three New Security Holes Microsoft fixed a spate of zero-day holes in its latest Patch Tuesday drop.  |
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 18, 2010 |
SANS Names Mistakes That Cause Vulnerability If programmers were perfect, there would be no vulnerabilities for the bad guys to exploit. SANS Institute has listed the most common mistakes leading to the most common exploits.  |
PC World March 2006 Andrew Sullivan |
Programs in Peril Popular applications have more security flaws than Windows does.  |
InternetNews September 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
VML Exploit Subsiding, Questions Remain Microsoft said it is "working non-stop" to develop a fix for a fresh round of attacks exploiting a flaw in the VML portion of Internet Explorer.  |
InternetNews January 14, 2010 |
McAfee Fingers Microsoft IE Flaw in Google Attack McAfee's researchers say 'Operation Aurora' used a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's browser software to penetrate Google's networks.  |
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 October 16, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
A New Way to Hack Yourself Core Security Technologies updates its intrusion detection software to simulate outside attacks on your network and see how far the bad guys can get.  |
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Expands Zero-Day IE Warning As reports of attacks in the wild come in, Microsoft says IE 7 is not the only vulnerable version of its browser.  |
InternetNews September 7, 2010 |
Researcher Unearths Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw A security researcher who also happens to be a Google employee is warning of a new zero-day exploit affecting Internet Explorer 8 that could automatically send out unintended tweets.  |
InternetNews September 25, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Report: Home Users Blind To Hackers According to a new status report from security vendor Symantec, home users are the target of 86 percent of attacks. Financial services ranked second, the target of 84 percent of phishing attempts in the first half of 2006.  |
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 March 16, 2004 Sharon Gaudin |
Report: Threats Coming from all Sides A Symantec study shows that the number of software security flaws has leveled off over the past year. That sounds like good news until you find out that it's leveled off at seven new vulnerabilities a day, or 2,636 a year.  |
InternetNews April 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Exploit for Windows SSL Flaw Circulating Unpatched systems are at risk of DoS attacks but security experts warn the threat level could grow considerably.  |
PC World February 3, 2003 Paul Roberts |
The Net Is Dangerous, Research Says Attack rates decline, but worms and software flaws keep cyberspace hazardous, Symantec reports.  |
InternetNews July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Confirms New Zero-Day Threat Security flaw can potentially affect all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 7.  |
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 April 1, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Code Exec Bugs Hit Windows Microsoft's mum on the Windows vulnerabilities since it still hasn't released a patch for them.  |
InternetNews April 20, 2010 |
Hackers Breached Google's Password Hub: Report New report cites source close to investigation claiming that hackers in China were able to compromise the password service that acts as gateway to Google's Web products and services.  |
InternetNews January 3, 2011 |
Fuzzer Finds IE Vulnerabilities A Google researcher makes his "cross fuzz" tool for identifying browser vulnerabilities publicly available.  |
InternetNews June 10, 2004 Ryan Naraine |
Zero-Day Exploit Targets IE Flaws Browser vulnerabilities carry an 'extremely critical' rating and is being exploited to launch adware on infected machines.  |
InternetNews January 14, 2010 |
Microsoft Admits Zero-Day Aided Google Attackers Microsoft acknowledges flaw in Internet Explorer, but is there a workaround?  |
InternetNews September 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft Investigates Word 2000 Trojan Microsoft said it has launched an investigation into reports of a new Trojan horse targeting Word 2000.  |
InternetNews June 29, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
IE, Firefox Users at Risk From New Flaws Reports abound of a flaw that exists in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers that could allow for unintended information disclosure that could put users at risk.  |
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 June 13, 2006 Andy Patrizio |
8 'Critical' Updates in Microsoft's Monthly Patch Patches to Windows, Internet Explorer and Outlook close a number of backdoors and exploits.  |
InternetNews November 6, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Adobe Unveils Another Set of Critical Patches For the second time this week, Adobe Systems has released a set of critical vulnerability patches.  |
InternetNews April 3, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
PowerPoint Hit in Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Microsoft issues a security advisory to warn of possible attacks on the company's presentation software.  |
InternetNews March 6, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston |
Patch Tuesday Won't Fix Excel Hole Microsoft still hasn't patched the Excel hole that leaves users open to attack.  |
InternetNews March 31, 2011 |
Report: Nearly Half of Vulnerabilities Left Unpatched IBM's X-Force 2010 Trend and Risk Report details a 27 percent rise in vulnerabilities, with nearly half left unpatched by year's end.  |
InternetNews January 29, 2007 Michael Hickins |
Microsoft Warns of New Zero-Day Flaw Microsoft is investigating new public reports of limited "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000.  |