Thursday, November 20th, 2008
An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.
The problem is rooted in the Device IO Control, which handles internal device communication. Researchers at Phion have found two different ways to cause a ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
According to a report by VoIPshield, a VoIP security service provider, Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator and Windows Messenger contain vulnerabilities that can be exploited for Denial of Service attacks. The applications can be crashed using specially crafted packets.
VoIPshield does not want to release more detailed information until ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
According to the UK-based Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), an error in the secure shell protocol (SSH) specification can in rare cases be exploited to reconstruct part of the plain text. According to their description of the error, the standard OpenSSH configuration allows 32 bits of plain ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A new threat that comes under the guise of a genuine antivirus program has become increasingly prevalent over the past year. Offering to locate and remove malware from your PC, this rogue will actually install a Trojan on your unsuspecting system. The process is usually initiated when you click a ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox version 3.0.4 to close nine security holes. The developers rated four of the holes as critical because they allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on the victim's system. One of the critical holes is a classical buffer overflow that can be triggered via specially ...
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