Tag: SECURITY-FLAW

It hasn't been the best couple of weeks for Adobe Reader. First there was the advice from F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen to stop using Reader and switch to an alternative. Now there's word of a new security flaw that is known to affect versions 8.14 and 9.1 for Linux and could also affect other versions of the program on other operating systems. The exploit takes advantage of the javascript getAnnots() ...

When Microsoft introduced UAC in Windows Vista, it was pretty much universally slammed for being annoying, intrusive, and unwanted. So with Windows 7, Microsoft decided to respond to the complaints and ease up on the prompts. Now, there's an uproar because doing this has caused security problems. The problem: by default, UAC in Windows 7 doesn't notify you if you make changes to Windows settings. ...

There's a bug in Internet Explorer that allows attackers to execute malicious code on your machine under certain conditions. When Microsoft first acknowledged the vulnerability a few days ago the company was under the impression that only Internet Explorer 7 was affected. But the security advisory has been updated and it's now clear that the flaw affects every version of Internet Explorer from ...