Microsofts new security feature UAC (User Account Control) seems not as secure as thought before. Now Microsoft employee Mark Russinovich explains, that “it should be clear then, that neither UAC elevations nor Protected Mode IE define new Windows security boundaries”.
According to the german security magazine heise.de this means, that the promoted new features will not […]

The bug in Adobes Acrobat Reader seems worse then expected in the beginning: With a manipulated PDF document, hackers could use Javascript-Links to open or delete files or to start and run programs, so an expert of the security company SPI Dynamics.
Adobe suggests to update to the newest PDF reader, Acrobat Reader 8. The […]

The german “Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik” (BSI) warns, that a serious security breach in the free firefox browser could allow attackers to access the surfers PC, run code or get access to private data.
The firefox developers, Mozilla Foundation, offered a bug-fix, which shall fix the bug. The update can be installed automatically using […]

On tuesday, the last patchday 2006, Microsoft delivered 11 patches to secure for part critical securitybreaches in Internet Explorer 5 and 6, Media Player and Visual Studio 2005. Internet Explorer 7 is not patched with theses updates.
Not patched are the two in the beginning of december found vulnerabilities in MS Word, which allow an […]

Shortly after the first Word vulnerability was found, another securitybreach was discovered. Experts call this flaw also highly dangerous - users should not open Word documents from untrustworthy sources.
The securitybreach occurs in Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and the Word Viewer 2003, warns the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog. Word 2007 is not affected by the […]

A new securitybreach in Microsoft Word enables hackers to access control over a computer with just a manipulated Word Document. Affected are Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, as well as Microsoft Works 2004, 2005, and 2006, according to Microsoft.