Microsoft PowerPoint Suffers From Memory Corruption Security Vulnerability

June 21st, 2006 While Microsoft developers are scrambling to patch a security hole in Excel, a hacker has now posted code that exploits a second vulnerability in the popular spreadsheet software. Microsoft says that criminals are not yet using this code in attacks, but the software could be used to run unauthorised programs on a PC, according to Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer at security software vendor eEye Digital Security.

April 13th, 2006 This is primarily a security fix release patching 5 critical defects and one high priority defect. Couple of them are regression defects (introduced in 1.5).

February 25th, 2009 Microsoft confesses again. Though there is nothing to be ashamed of MS.

November 14th, 2005 A vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Flash Player 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to missing validation of the frame type identifier that is read from a SWF file.

June 29th, 2006 Kw3[R]Ln has discovered a vulnerability in the MOD_CBSMS module for Mambo, which can be exploited to compromise a machine serving Mambo CMS. Input passed to the "mosConfig_absolute_path" parameter in mod_cbsms_messages.php isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files.

July 6th, 2009 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp.

August 10th, 2006 I have never seen them so concerned about computer vulnerability from Microsoft Windows software. Everyone knows Windows OS is vulnerable by default.

June 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to dispel fears about the vulnerability of Windows to viruses and other malware, Microsoft Tuesday released a trial version of a new free security package called Microsoft Security Essentials. The software is designed to replace the Windows Defender tool that Microsoft released in 2007, but which was widely derided as being inadequate to protect computers from the constant and ever-evolving threats posed by hackers.

July 18th, 2006 Bipin Gautam has reported a vulnerability in Outpost Firewall Pro, which can be exploited by local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the Virtual Firewall driver (filtnt.sys) and can be exploited to crash the system by e.g.

December 18th, 2005 A critical vulnerability, found in some versions of Apple's popular iTunes software, could enable attackers to remotely take over a user's computer, according to a warning issued by eEye. This flaw existed on the earlier version of iTunes 6 for Windows and was not addressed by the latest security update.

February 28th, 2009 As Firefox, Google Chrome etc are coming up with hot and new developments every month to uniquely establish themselves in the browsers' war, Microsoft isn't quiet either. Microsoft Research is developing a new browser called Microsoft’s Gazelle and they released a PDF paper last week.

May 29th, 2009 Microsoft has reported a vulnerability in its DirectShow, in some versions of Windows. DirectShow is Microsoft's framework for playing different media types such as games and multimedia.

June 29th, 2006 Fresh security problems found in Microsoft Internet Explorer that can allow attackers to take over a system or read private information from other Web sites. One of the bugs also affects Firefox.

May 29th, 2006 Symantec's antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and US government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers from eEye Digital Security said. Symantec is investigating the issue.

December 16th, 2005 A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in the Apache httpd server's mod_imap module which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Referer when using image maps. Input passed to the image map "Referer" directive in "mod_imap" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user.