More ‘critical’ Micosoft flaws
p2pnet.net News:- Expect downloads of the Opera and Mozilla Firefox browsers to sky rocket.
Microsoft has found 10 more security holes that could allow a hacker to gain complete control over your computer if it’s running Windows.
Of the 10, seven are critical and three involve Internet Explorer.
“I’ve never seen Microsoft release this many patches at one time,” Darwin Herdman, cto at RedSiren, a Pittsburgh-based Internet security company, is quoted as saying in a Washington Post article, which also says “at least” 21 vulnerabilities were found in total, “several of which reside on nearly every version of the Windows operating system and affect hundreds of millions of computers”.
Free updates are available from Microsoft’s Windows Update Web site.
Microsoft’s credibility is now in tatters.
News of the JpegOfDeath.c v0.5, which exploits a ‘critical’ security flaw in the company’s jpg processing technology that centres on software supporting the JPEG (.jpg) format, including some versions of Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft developer tools, came late last month.
Behind it are numerous flaws ranging from hardly-worth-bothering-about to critical and given that Microsoft’s popularity rating is now equally critical, hackers are virus writers are quick to jump on any Microsoft product weakness that looks even vaguely exploitable.
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JpegOfDeath – Jpeg Of Death.c v0.5, p2pnet, September 28, 2004
October 13th, 2004 at 2:44 pm
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