Monday, April 7th, 2008
Hackers are using a new multiple-attack package composed of seven ActiveX exploits, many of them never seen in the wild before, said a security company on Friday.
Fewer than half of the flawed ActiveX controls have been patched.
The attack framework probes Windows PCs for vulnerable ActiveX controls from software vendors Microsoft, ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Recycling an old social engineering technique and using two different attack methods, a new spam run emerges as a threat to Web users before Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. And not because it exploits soon-to-be named vulnerabilities.
What this spamming operation takes advantage of is the anticipation itself for the release of patches ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, will become a 64-bit application in the next major revision to the company's bundle of creative pro applications, Creative Suite 4. However, the 64-bit version will only be available to Windows users because of a change Apple made at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2007.
The ...
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said his company might ship a new version of its Windows operating system as soon as 2009.The news agency Reuters quoted Gates on Friday as saying that Windows 7 may be released "sometime in the next year or so." That would put the software ahead of ...
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