Archive for the 'Vulnerabilities' Category

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 […]

Dr. Benny Pinkas from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Haifa has expressed his concern on a possible vulnerability in relation to the Windows 2000 random number generator. He said that hackers may exploit CryptGenRandom to reach sensitive personal information including banking details, email passwords and others.
Mark Miller, Microsoft's director for security […]

The 1.1.2 firmware was released last week, in an attempt to disallow third-party applications to run on the iPhone. In a matter of hours it was hacked, albeit mostly not for malicious reasons, such as unlocking the phone for other carriers. Patrik Runald, the security response manager for F-Secure Security Labs, in accordance to this, […]