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HP laptops plagued by zero-day

December 12, 2007 — 7:59am ET
If you support HP laptops in your organization, you had better look out: a zero-day bug could allow a hacker to gain complete control of a user's... Read more...

Windows flaw gets critical, patch coming tomorrow

April 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Remember that zero-day bug that was recently discovered in Windows Active Cursor? Well,

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Oracle exploits coming at Black Hat DC 2007

February 26, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Looks like Oracle is going to be taken to task for security yet ... Read more...

New Microsoft Word zero-day attack on the loose

February 14, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

In what one ZDnet blogger is calling "Exploit Wednesday," a hacker has responded to Microsoft's Patch Tuesday with a new exploit. Just after the company patched a number of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word, among numerous other apps, a new zero-day exploit …

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Vista left out of patch day, but in a good way

February 13, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Pre-Valentine's patch day has come and gone and as expected, Microsoft has at long last plugged a few security leaks in Office, Windows, IE and well, virtually every other product that the company makes (except for Flight Simulator). However, it wouldn't be a Microsoft patch party unless someone was left out of the festivities and that person is the new kid on the block, Vista. …

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Valentine's delivery from Microsoft: One dozen patches

February 8, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Roses. Chocolate. Fine wine. These are the typical Valentine's Day gifts that most of us have come to expect. But Microsoft isn't just any suitor--no, they know you far better than that. To set themselves apart from the rest of the pack, Microsoft will be making a special delivery this Valentine's Day: a dozen red, long-stemmed, fragrant patches. On February 13th (technically the day before Valentine's Day but come on, work with me here), Microsoft will release the …

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ALSO NOTED: Selling your department on SOA; The Free Software Foundation vs. Novell;

February 4, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

> SOA, for all of its alleged benefits, can be a hard sell. Article
> CA aims to fight zero-day exploits. Article
> Oracle promises E-Business users an easy upgrade. …

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Mac OS X to get its own zero-day response team?

February 1, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

Mac users could soon find a powerful ally on their side in the world of security--whether they need him or not. Landon Fuller, a former engineer in Apple's BSD Technology Group and one of the original designers of Darwin, may just offer his services to the OS X community. You'll likely recall that this past month was the Month of Apple Bugs. What you may not know is that it was also the Month …

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New Word/Windows zero-day attack spotted in the wild

January 25, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

It isn't easy being Microsoft, folks. The company still has yet to patch three zero-day flaws in just about every version of Word and what do the hackers go and do but release a new one? The latest bug leaves the following operating systems open to a code execution attack: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, …

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Zero-day bugs remain after Microsoft Patch Tuesday

January 9, 2007 — 8:01pm ET

As expected, Microsoft released patches yesterday for flaws in Windows and Office. And, as expected, Microsoft is still behind the curve, as unpatched vulnerabilities in just about every version of Word in use remain. "Conspicuous by their absence are patches for the zero-day exploits in Word," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at network security firm nCircle, who theorized that patches were "probably pulled due to …

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