Archive for the 'Vulnerabilities' Category

Large scale survey finds 40 percent of internet users surfing with unsafe web browsers. Researchers from IBM, Google and the Communication Systems Groups combined efforts to find out if computers owners care about safety of their web browsers and the results were not as good as expected.
The study was based on Google logs that recorded […]

Computer security researchers came up with an idea why internet isn’t a safe place. The conclusion is amazingly simple but it doesn’t bring any good news for now: millions of websites can be infected with the same single trick, but fixing each vulnerable website requires unique and complex solution. That’s why patching a single web […]

Mac/Apple lovers used to be proud of more stable and more reliable systems, but the time has passed. Apple products are not an alternative chosen only by eccentrics; they made it to the mainstream. That’s the time when hackers, scammers and all the others turn their heads into unexplored fields of Macs. Unfortunately, the legend […]

Can all software exploits ever be patched? The answer is probably negative. Software creators keep releasing fixes and hackers keep trying to exploit weak points of certain applications. Report on MS Windows vulnerability appeared just after it was patched on 8th April. Even though two GDI (graphics device interface) bugs were supposedly fixed, it didn’t […]

You don’t have to be a hacker or extremely experienced computer specialist to unlock Windows without password. A tool has been released that unlocks Windows operating system in seconds. The tool was proved to be effective on computers running Windows XP, and a modified version is coming that will supposedly work on Windows Vista.
Surprisingly, this […]

Excel user's are not entirely safe. A new vulnerability was found in Microsoft's spreadsheet program, Excel. This vulnerability can be exploited by hackers to create a malicious Excel document, which, when opened, would compromise the system.
Even though, as Microsoft has stated, these exploits are likely to be used in targeted attacks, the risk is still […]

People tend to rely on wireless networks a lot these days, but there are things concerning the security measures employed in this method of connectivity that people don't know about, thus putting themselves in danger of being spied on.
It should first be noted, that wireless networks are less safe due to their nature: to spy […]

After patching QuickTime to version 7.3 and thus disposing of a widely-exploited bug, Apple is facing yet another vulnerability. This particular one affects Windows XP and Vista users, although it's not certain yet, whether Mac OS X is susceptible.
Attack code exploiting this vulnerability has been posted on milw0rm.com, it has to do with malware being […]

A flaw that had been patched for Mac OS X 10.4 has resurfaced again in Apple's new operating system Leopard. The vulnerability lies in Apple mail and could allow malicious software to be disguised as benign attachments.
"Files on a Mac can contain additional information, such how another program should be used to open them. The […]

On November 14 Apple released an update for its Mac OS X, patching 41 vulnerabilities at once. 15 of these vulnerabilities were critical since they were flagged as capable of "arbitrary code execution," or, in other words, these flaws could be exploited to compromise a Mac. The remainder fixes took care of bugs that could […]