Vulnerabilities and exploits

Microsoft has released this month’s update package, which contains (among other patches) updates for Internet Explorer, Vista, Outlook Express and Visio.

Microsoft Updates for June 2007

May brought a few surprises, with old email worms climbing to the top of the rankings, and a warning of more to come. This month’s Top Twenty also features two classic file viruses.

It’s interesting that the virus writers who are creating Trojan downloaders are actively varying the type of files downloaded, ranging from obviously malicious programs to adware.

This article will address the changes which have taken place since our last wardriving tour of London in 2006.

Fast … but is it secure?

This latest report covers the continuing evolution of malicious code, examining the latest virus outbreaks, their significance, and security issues associated with the release of Vista.

The May update from Microsoft is covered across 7 bulletins. All of the bulletins address remote code execution vulnerabilities, thus are all rated as critical — Microsoft’s most severe rating.

Warezov and Zhelatin regularly cause virus outbreaks, hit the headlines, and create a huge amount of work for virus labs around the world, but it’s NetSky.t.

It’s usual for the leader in our online rankings to change, but this month’s leader is very unusual.

This article continues our research into wireless network security. Previous articles have examined wireless network security in China, Germany, London, and Paris.

asus.com compromised: link to ANI exploit

Microsoft has just released an out-of-cycle security patch to address a vulnerability in Windows

Kaspersky Lab presents the Online Scanner Top Twenty for March 2007

Kaspersky Lab presents the Virus Top Twenty for March 2007