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| Active Web Exploit on websites against Excel runs malicious code without user intervention | 13 Jul 2009 |
A vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel is being exploited via ActiveX by websites (malicious or hacked) to execute malicious code on user machines without any intervention needed by those visitors of the website.
Microsoft is aware of the issue, there is no patch available at this time. Only a work around is available: use a browser other than Internet Explorer. Only IE uses ActiveX. |
| Internet Explorer 0-day exploit around, patch now available | 11 Dec 2008 |
Visiting any regular Website using Internet Explorer 6,7 or 8 (or possibly earlier versions) may lead to your machine being compromised and remote code being executed on your machine outside of your control (and will). The vulnerability is ingested using Javascript.
[Update Dec 17th]: Microsoft have released a patch. Use Windows Update immediately!
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| Adobe PDF exploits in the wild | 07 Nov 2008 |
Exploits of vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader (PDF files) have been detected in the wild, infecting machines with ease, the Adobe software of which have not been upgraded to the latest releases 9 or at least 8.1.3 of Adobe Acrobat or Reader.
Patch IMMEDIATELY!
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