Thursday | 9 September, 2010
Stories by: Gregg Keizer
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Microsoft may face tough patch job with Windows shortcut bug 21/07/2010 06:25:00
Microsoft may have a tough time fixing the Windows shortcut vulnerability, a security researcher said today. - +
Microsoft confirms 'nasty' Windows zero-day bug 18/07/2010 06:37:00
Microsoft on Friday warned that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives. - +
Apple sneaks anti-malware update into Snow Leopard 19/06/2010 02:56:00
Ten months after it debuted rudimentary malware scanning in Snow Leopard, Apple this week quietly added a signature for a third piece of malware, security researchers reported today. - +
Hackers will keep hammering Facebook, say researchers 28/05/2010 03:22:00
Attacks targeting Facebook users will continue, and could easily become even more dangerous, a security researcher said today. - +
Hackers love to exploit PDF bugs, says researcher 11/03/2010 08:25:00
Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company said today. - +
New zero-day involves IE, puts Windows XP users at risk 01/03/2010 14:10:00
Microsoft on Sunday confirmed it's investigating an unpatched bug in VBScript that hackers could exploit to plant malware on Windows XP machines running Internet Explorer (IE). - +
IE attacks pose small threat to U.S., big risk to China 23/01/2010 01:39:00
Chinese computer users are five times more likely than U.S. users to be targeted by hackers exploiting the just-patched bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a Web metrics company said today. - +
Massive bot attack spoofs Facebook password messages 29/10/2009 07:13:00
A massive bot-based attack has been hitting Facebook users, with nearly three-quarters of a million users receiving fake password reset messages, according to security researchers. - +
Microsoft issues first Windows 7 patches 19/10/2009 22:17:00
Microsoft last week patched nine vulnerabilities, five marked "critical," in Windows 7, a move that will require users upgrading to the new operating system starting Thursday to download a security update to keep their PCs secure. - +
Gmail, Yahoo Mail join Hotmail; passwords exposed 07/10/2009 04:25:00
Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail were also targeted by a large-scale phishing attack, perhaps the same one that harvested at least 10,000 passwords from Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail, according to a report by the BBC. - +
Microsoft confirms critical unpatched Vista, Windows 7 RC bug 10/09/2009 06:35:00
Microsoft late Tuesday confirmed that a bug in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the release candidates of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, could be used to hijack PCs.
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