Microsoft Warns Of Critical Word Bug. microsoft word vulnerability. Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has issued an advisory for a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Word that, while "very limited" in scope, could lead to damaging attacks without an official fix yet.....

fix is not bullet-proof, it is better than requiring no user intervention at all. Microsoft responded to the publication of this security flaw stating that in order for this vulnerability to be exploited, a user's computer would have to contain malicious...

Apple Patches DNS Vulnerability, Sort Of. apple dns vulnerability patch fix. Cupertino (CA) - Apple has issued a security patch that promises to fix a DNS vulnerability recently discovered by security researcher Dan Kaminsky, but it appears the fix doesn't...

say they can prevent a class of errors known as buffer overruns, thereby eliminating a key area of vulnerability typically exploited by worms and viruses. Microsoft said it uses "sound verification tools" that ensure that "entire classes of programmer errors...

a vulnerability in the Windows WebDAV Mini-Redirector, which if exploited could give remote users full administrative privileges of the computer. The last critical patch relates to Internet Explorer and a vulnerability involving specially crafted websites....

a vulnerability in the Windows Vista Flash player, as part of the CanSecWest's "Pwn2Own" contest..   Vancouver (WA) - Over the weekend, a hacker managed to exploit a vulnerability in the Windows Vista Flash player, as part of the CanSecWest’s "Pwn2Own"...

and have been vulnerable to well known attacks of this nature for some time. A way you can check to see if a site is vulnerable under Firefox is explained by Mike Perry, “go to the Privacy tab in the Preferences window, and click on ’Show Cookies’. For...

2007 as well as MacOffice 2004 and 2008, which, if exploited, could allow an attacker to take full control of client PC. A second vulnerability in Outlook 2000, 2002 and 2003 enables an attacker to install programs as well as view, change, or delete data or...

information to be sent to other servers and desktop computers – in essence hackers could redirect web surfers, chat clients and even email servers to machines of their choosing. Specific details about the vulnerability and the ways to exploit it have been...