Tag: Vulnerable

Avast Software, one of the biggest names in computer security have announced that six out of ten people are vulnerable to attacks through them having outdated versions of Adobe Reader. What’s more worrisome is that hackers...

Tom Dwyer · Jul 14, 2011 · Hot! with 44 comments

A study done by Whitehat Security found that educational institutions were the most likely to be vulnerable while banks and healthcare institutions were the least vulnerable. According to NetworkWorld, the study is based off of...

Brandon Boyce · Mar 16, 2011 · Hot! with 30 comments

In a list, published by security firm Bit9, of 12 most vulnerable applications for the Windows platform, Firefox finished at the top of the list. The browser has earned the reputation from Mozilla...

Andrew Lyle · Dec 16, 2008 · Hot! with 88 comments

According to a report released today by VoIP security firm Sipera Systems, Internet phone service company Vonage may be vulnerable to attacks by hackers through a variety of different means including eavesdropping, spam, spoofing and...

· Oct 24, 2007 · Hot! with 5 comments

Even though the recent webcam vulnerability in MSN/Windows Live Messenger was only just addressed, another exploitable bug has already surfaced. This time it's a buffer overflow error that affects the Sharing folders feature in Windows...

Steven Parker · Sep 27, 2007 · Hot! with 13 comments

Firefox remains vulnerable to attacks exploiting protocol-handling bugs, even though it was patched twice in July, a pair of security researchers said this weekend. Billy Rios and Nate McFeters, who spelled out design and functionality...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Sep 5, 2007 · Hot! with 10 comments

Exploit code for a "highly critical" vulnerability in MSN Messenger has been posted to a Chinese-language forum, prompting Microsoft to urge all users to immediately migrate to Windows Live Messenger 8.1. The exploit, available here,...

Tom Warren · Aug 30, 2007 · Hot! with 10 comments

An anonymous security researcher claims to have developed a worm capable of delivering a malicious payload to fully-patched Mac OS X systems. A posting on the Information Security Sellout blog insists that the worm proves...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jul 18, 2007 · Hot! with 116 comments

Mac OS X is running with an outdated and vulnerable version of the open-source file and print program Samba, according to Symantec's DeepSight Threat Analyst Team. The vulnerabilities, first published on May 14, involve multiple...

· May 31, 2007 · Hot! with 8 comments

Cisco has posted a Security Response on its Web site which describes the 77 routers that are vulnerable to a new form of attack. Researchers at security company Symantec first warned users about the new...

· Feb 21, 2007 with 2 comments

With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software. This time Excel is the target. Microsoft confirmed late Friday that its spreadsheet software is...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Feb 5, 2007 with -1 comments

Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin,...

Tom Warren · Nov 23, 2006 · Hot! with 29 comments

Russian security outfit, Maxpatrol, have discovered a way to defeat Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention mechanism. Data execution prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies...

Tom Warren · Jan 30, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

When the Mozilla organization issued a patch for its Web browser last week it opened up a can of worms. It now appears that the software vulnerability discovered by Mozilla might also affect MSN...

· Jul 13, 2004 with -1 comments

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc., long considered to be relatively immune to the security holes and viruses that plague longtime rival Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, said on Friday a security hole in its software leaves...

· May 23, 2004 with 1 comment

The federal government says there is new evidence that an attack is being planned on computers using Microsoft's Windows. The Department of Homeland Security issued an updated advisory this week about possible hacker...

· Aug 3, 2003 with -1 comments

Users of the latest versions of Microsoft's popular MSN Messenger program are vulnerable to computer hackers, the company warned on Wednesday. The vulnerability was discovered as Microsoft undergoes an intensive company-wide campaign to...

Darren Bolton · May 9, 2002 with -1 comments

Thanks xStainDx for the heads up. A flaw in a software-compression library used in all versions of Linux could leave the lion's share of systems based on the open-source operating system open to...

· Mar 11, 2002 with -1 comments

A flaw in the common open-source scripting language PHP could allow attackers to crash or compromise a hefty fraction of the nine million servers running the open-source Web software Apache, as well as other Web...

Darren Bolton · Feb 28, 2002 with -1 comments

A hacker has developed a method of bypassing the JavaScript filtering mechanisms of Hotmail, in the latest security flap to hit Microsoft's Web-based email service. ObLiviON has sent details of a sample...

· Sep 13, 2001 with -1 comments