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Yahoo Messenger vulnerability has not been patched yet
Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger instant messaging application has once again been exposed to attacks, and this time it's even bigger because Yahoo's experts haven't patched the…
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Microsoft blocked security holes for XP and Vista -
Next Tuesday (July 10) Microsoft will release a monthly update to fix a series of security holes in its application software.
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Microsoft patched a serious flaw in the .Net platform
This July security bulletin Microsoft has issued 6 patches, including a patch for serious vulnerabilities in the .Net Framework that has affected many applications on it…
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Most Zero-day vulnerabilities are only discovered after ... 1 year
The average life of a zero-day hole is 348 days before it is discovered or patched. Many holes are even alive
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'Vista security is better than Mac OS and Linux' '
Jeffrey Jones, director of security technology at Microsoft, has just released a report on Vista's malicious code over the past six months, showing that the new operatin…
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Apple patches the Safari version for Windows
Soon after Aviv Raff announced a security bug in the Safari browser version for Windows, Apple quickly released a new patch for the trial version.
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Yahoo released a message submission fix
The Yahoo company has just provided a patch to block dangerous errors in Yahoo Messenger messages. Hackers can take advantage of these errors to kidnap the user's system.
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Trojan forged Microsoft security warnings
A spam attack campaign impersonating Microsoft's security warning message has just been booted by hackers with the goal of tricking users into downloading and installing…
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Microsoft patched 15 vulnerabilities at a time
On June 12, the software giant released 4 patches
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Check Point can patch Microsoft's latest zero-day weakness
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd has announced that Check Point's intrusion and firewall products such as VPN-1, VPN1-Power, VSX, UTM-1, InterSpect and IPS-1 are a…
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Microsoft changed the structure of the monthly patch notification message
Microsoft will add details about the information in its monthly security bulletin after receiving customer feedback. Microsoft monthly bulletin boards are often too sket…
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28% of software is not patched by security
Security firm Secunia said that more than a quarter of the software used on PCs is not installed with the necessary security patches. Multimedia software is the most ope…
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Microsoft patched a new vulnerability in Vista
Microsoft has just fixed another serious flaw in Vista that has emerged since the end of Christmas. This delay is similar to the process of handling mouse pointer vulner…
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Security patch disables IE7
Microsoft yesterday (May 17) recommends Internet Explorer 7 may be completely shut down after users install the latest security update for this browser.
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Symantec patched the flaw in Norton Internet Security
Symantec is warning users of the possibility that an ActiveX control in Norton Internet Security could allow hackers to exploit the system remotely.