Microsoft released today six bulletins addressing several vulnerabilities for the month of April. Of note, the update patching Internet Explorer versions 6-9 and the update addressing the Windows Common Controls ActiveX control, which is used in a number of Microsoft programs such MS Office. This MSRC blog entry reports that there have been some attacks […]
Phones running Microsoft’s newly released Windows Phone 7.5 mobile operating system are vulnerable to having their text messaging service’s knees kicked off in a denial of service attack. The flaw is simple as pie to exploit: An attacker simply sends an SMS to a Windows Phone user. According to WinRumors’s tests, Windows Phone 7.5 devices […]
A zero-day vulnerability is causing BIND 9 DNS servers to crash across the internet. The flaw, described as an “as-yet unidentified network event”, appears to be a denial of service vulnerability being exploited in-the-wild. The flaw affects all supported versions of BIND. The internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have described the problem as follows: An as-yet […]
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