Buggy ActiveX controls menace Yahoo! Messenger
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| ActiveX controls - so often the source of Internet Explorer flaws -
| are the font of two newly discovered flaws in Yahoo! Messenger.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/07/yahoo_activex_bug/
CA in malformed archives malware risk
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| CA has updated its anti-virus software to guard against a brace of
| flaws that created a means for hackers to turn the security
| protection software against its users.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/07/ca_av_security_bug_snafu/
Hackers Blamed for Data Breach That Compromised 300,000
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| A hacker broke into the computer network at the Illinois Department
| of Financial and Professional Regulation this past January and
| accessed a server that held information on about 1,200,000 people
| who have licenses or applied for licenses with the department.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=125714&WT.svl=cmpnews1_1
Not too certain which platform/breach is to blame, but it's usually Windows.
Related:
Month of ActiveX bugs project begins with two Office flaws
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| A hacker known as shinnai kicked off his "Month of ActiveX Bugs"
| (MoAxB) project with a bang by exposing a number of severe
| vulnerabilities affecting OCX controls in Microsoft Office.
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http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/654659/month-activex-bugs-project-begins-two-office-flaws/
Way Too ActiveX
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| Today, over at Symantec's Security Response Weblog, Greg Ahmad
| reveals startling--and I do mean shocking--increases in ActiveX
| vulnerabilities. According to Symantec, ActiveX vulnerabilities
| stayed in the 12- to- 15-a-year range from 2002 to 2005. For
| 2006, the number of vulnerabilities "reached 50," with 42 in
| the second half of the year--coincidentally, the same time
| period Microsoft finished up and released Internet Explorer 7.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/way_too_activex.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/33cfno
Acer puts Active X hole on laptops
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| Laptop outfit Acer seems to have placed an Active X control on its
| computers that seems to allow webpages to execute any program.
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| This huge hole in network security has been installed on board Acer
| lap-tops since 1998.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36773
Adobe Confirms 'Critical' Reader, Acrobat Exploits With IE
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| A critical security vulnerability in an ActiveX control used by
| Internet Explorer could allow malicious hackers to use Adobe's
| Reader and Acrobat software to launch PC hijack attacks,
| according to a warning from Adobe Systems.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2066079,00.asp
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