Neowin News Feed for: Unpatched

Attacks on unpatched Windows XP vulnerability increase rapidly

Tom Warren — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:14:53 +0000

Attacks on an unpatched flaw in Windows XP have increased recently, says Microsoft. Microsoft issued a Security Advisory on June 10, warning of an unpatched vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center function in Windows... Read more...

Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to 'high severity'

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:29:10 +0000

Mozilla has given a proof of concept Firefox vulnerability a "high severity" rating because an attacker can collect session information such as cookies and history, according to Mozilla security chief Window Snyder. Snyder said the... Read more...

Attack code targets unpatched Adobe Reader flaw

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:26:04 +0000

A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The researcher, known only as 'Cyanid-E', unveiled his creation in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on... Read more...

Attacks Launched Against Unpatched Windows Bug

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:33:54 +0000

For the second time in less than a week, Microsoft has acknowledged that attackers are exploiting a critical, unpatched flaw in Windows to snatch PCs from their owners. The new bug, which is in an... Read more...

Unpatched IE Flaw Is Worse Than Expected

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:59:42 +0000

Last week was shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday, and it seemed the malware guys took it off as well. There was not much going on of recent origin, and the biggest blip on the security... Read more...

Unpatched Firefox flaw may expose users

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:36:03 +0000

A new, unpatched flaw in that affects all versions of Firefox could let attackers surreptitiously run malicious code on users' PCs, a security researcher has warned. The problem lies in the way Firefox... Read more...

Study: Unpatched PCs compromised in 20 minutes

Wed, 18 Aug 2004 04:42:40 +0000

According to a new study if unpatched Windows machines are left connected to the Internet, within 20 minutes that computer will become compromised. Compromised by viruses, spyware, adware, etc.... This is according to... Read more...

Unpatched IE vuln exploited by adware

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 17:44:44 +0000

Detailed information on a brace of unpatched vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer has been posted onto a dull disclosure mailing list. The flaws involve a cross-zone scripting vuln and a bug in IE's Local Resource Access... Read more...

FYI... there are currently 11 unpatched vulnerabilities involving Microsoft!

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 04:20:26 +0000

So you are kept up to date on the vunerabilities that exist in Microsoft products, here is a site that lists all current vunerabilities, and their status, whether they have patches and the dates they... Read more...