Tag Archives: Internet
Out-of-band Patches from Microsoft
Microsoft announced extraordinary updates for the Internet Explorer and for Visual Studio for this Tuesday to come. While the company rates the security issue in Visual Studio only as moderate, the IE-flaws – which also affect IE8 – are considered … Continue reading
Security flaw in Adobe PDF/Flash
There are security flaws within Adobe Reader and Acrobat and the Adobe Flash Player which are getting actively exploited on the net currently. The company has published a security advisory where it announces that they are currently investigating the problem … Continue reading
Firefox 3.5.1 closes security hole
The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 3.5.1 today. The new version fixes an issue which could get abused by web sites to inject malicious code into a victim’s computer. The vulnerability was in the Just-In-Time compiler for JavaScript which is a … Continue reading
New Office vulnerability actively exploited
Microsoft has warned about yet another security hole which already gets actively exploited on the net. Affected are installations of Microsofts Office XP and 2003, the ISA Server 2004 and 2006 and Office Small Business Accounting 2006. It is unclear … Continue reading
Microsoft announces July Patches
According to Microsofts announcement of the next Black Tuesday the company plans to release six security bulletins. Three of those are dealing with security holes deemed critical by Microsoft, while the other three are only rated “important”. Among those three … Continue reading
Malware threats in the first half of 2009
As we were predicting upcoming threats for 2009 in the end of last year we now checked whether our guesses were correct. Unfortunately, they were. We predicted that the use of polymorphic file infectors will increase again. This became true: … Continue reading
Opera Unite – Everybody is becoming a Web server
Browser developer Opera today introduced a new feature of its upcoming browser generation 10 with the code name Opera Unite. Basically Opera added a web server to the browser and offers a dynamic DNS service along with it. So everyone … Continue reading
Microsoft and Adobe ship Updates
As announced, Microsoft released 10 security bulletins with according updates today. They fix 31 security vulnerabilities in the Windows Operating Systems, in the Internet Explorer and in Office. Make sure to install them ASAP! Adobe also had its first patch … Continue reading
Microsoft warns of critical DirectX flaw
Microsoft issued a warning about a security vulnerability in DirectX which is reportedly getting actively exploited. The affected component quartz.dll is removed in Windows Vista and 2008 Server (and also in Windows 7), so Windows 2000, XP and 2003 Server … Continue reading
Potential Threat through Opera Unite, Part II
The comment about a possible security threat due to a web server in the web browser got picked up by Opera and the Media. The CEO of Opera, Jon von Tetzchner, doesn’t see implied security risks with such a feature. … Continue reading →