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InternetNews July 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Windows 2000 Exploit Code Released Exploit code for a known security flaw in Microsoft Windows 2000 has been posted online, putting millions of users at risk of a PC hijack. Apply those MS04-019 and MS04-022 security patches as needed.
InternetNews December 28, 2005 Jim Wagner	Windows Metafile Exploit Could Spell Trouble A new virus that exploits a critical vulnerability in the Windows Metafile Format has been released to the wild and is being used by malware writers.
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InternetNews April 20, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Exploit for Windows SSL Flaw Circulating Unpatched systems are at risk of DoS attacks but security experts warn the threat level could grow considerably.
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Exploits Circulating for JPEG Flaw Just eight days after Microsoft released a fix for a "critical" flaw in the way JPEG files are processed, researchers have discovered proof-of-concept exploit code that is targeting unpatched machines.
InternetNews October 12, 2004 Wagner & Naraine	MS Patch Barrage Comes With IE Fix Microsoft released its October batch of security advisories Tuesday with a slew of "critical" patches, including a monster fix for the Internet Explorer browser.
InternetNews March 26, 2004 Ryan Naraine	It's a (Real) Buffer Overflow Problem RealNetworks confirms a potential root exploit flaw in multiple Helix Universal Server products.
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Tim Gray	Windows Exploit Code Online The exploit code can lead to a remote system compromise, where an attacker can take control of an affected computer. A patch for this code is available online.
InternetNews July 13, 2004 Ryan Naraine	MS Patch Day: 7 Alerts; 2 Critical The two critical flaws are found in the Windows Task Scheduler and HTML Help features.
InternetNews May 3, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Sasser Worm Reined But Variants Sprout Experts continue to stress the importance of applying Microsoft's MS04-011 patch.
InternetNews March 9, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Microsoft Patches Trio of Vulnerabilities Security fixes issued for Microsoft Outlook, MSN Messenger and the Windows Media Services.
InternetNews February 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft's Security Valentines As part of its traditional "patch Tuesday," Microsoft has released seven fixes for its media player and other Windows applications.
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Worm Still Active; Removal Tool Released Tardy home users with unpatched systems are the main culprits.
PC World December 12, 2002 Joris Evers	Microsoft Patches Eight Software Holes Security holes, two of which are serious, involve the virtual machine used to run Java apps on Windows.
InternetNews September 26, 2006 Ed Sutherland	VML Exploit Subsiding, Questions Remain Microsoft said it is "working non-stop" to develop a fix for a fresh round of attacks exploiting a flaw in the VML portion of Internet Explorer.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 Andy Patrizio	New Worm Counts On Lazy Admins In a twist from their usual methods, virus writers have written an exploit to a patch that Microsoft issued this week, hoping to take advantage of IT shops that are slow on the draw.
PC Magazine February 17, 2004 Leon Erlanger	The Lookout: Get Patched Security experts have found a new way to exploit a known buffer overrun flaw in Windows Workstation Service.
InternetNews January 3, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Readies WMF Patch The zero-day Windows Metafile exploit is to be patched in the first update of the year.
InternetNews October 26, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Hacker Criminals Find An Exploit In a Fix Adobe issues a fix to an exploit that could allow a rootkit to be installed on unsuspecting computers. The bad guys craft an exploit off that fix within a day.
InternetNews July 18, 2005	XP At Risk From DoS Newly discovered flaw may leave XP users at risk from a Denial of Service attack.
InternetNews February 15, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Another Week, Another MS Word Exploit Emerges Microsoft is investigating new public reports of "very limited, targeted attacks" against Microsoft Word.
InternetNews March 3, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Searchmeup Targets Weak PCs A new adware exploit takes advantage of IE LoadImage vulnerability.
InternetNews January 11, 2005 Tim Gray	Microsoft Patches Three Holes, Offers Removal Tool The company issues fixes for Internet Explorer vulnerabilities and offers a free anti-malicious software removal tool.
InternetNews November 1, 2006 Ed Sutherland	'Critical' Flaw in Visual Studio 2005 Software giant Microsoft says it is investigating and may issue an out-of-cycle patch to resolve a bug in an ActiveX control used by Visual Studio 2005.
InternetNews March 21, 2006 David Miller	Can IE Bug Do More Than Crash Browsers? A newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser can cause the browser to crash and may expose PCs to another round of nasty Internet hack attacks.
InternetNews December 27, 2004 Clint Boulton	Security Firms Sound Alarm on Latest Microsoft Flaws The company has yet to patch most recent Windows flaws. Symantec today warned of Phel.A, a Trojan horse that affects Windows XP SP2.
PC World November 20, 2002 Paul Roberts	'Critical' Windows, IE Hole Plugged Microsoft urges users to download patch for flaw that permits intruder access.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Sharon Gaudin	2003 'Worst Year Ever' for Viruses, Worms In no other year have computer viruses and worms wreaked so much havoc and caused so much damage as in this past year, according to security analysts.
InternetNews September 15, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Hackers Attack ActiveX Flaw in IE IE 5.01 and 6 users warned to disable ActiveX while the Microsoft investigates.
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InternetNews March 30, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Malicious Cisco Code Circulating The release of a hacking toolkit to exploit security holes in Cisco products has sent the networking giant scrambling.
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InternetNews March 8, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Linux Privilege Escalation Hole Detected The flaw carries a 'critical' rating and could be exploited to give an attacker full super-user privileges.
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InternetNews December 29, 2005 Sharon Gaudin	Hackers Exploiting Zero Day Windows Flaw The Zero Day exploit of the Windows Metafile bug has racked up six variants as of Thursday afternoon and has left security analysts wondering what's coming next.
InternetNews December 1, 2004 Tim Gray	Microsoft: WINS Patch Coming Microsoft said it plans to issue a patch for a security flaw in Windows Server software that may allow attackers to gain control over systems running the program.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	New Zero-Day Exploit Emerges for Microsoft SQL Microsoft issues warning for attack vector that could paralyze database servers.
InternetNews September 19, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Latest IE Zero Day Has XML Designs Yet another zero-day exploit takes aim at Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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InternetNews September 28, 2006 Ed Sutherland	PowerPoint, IE Hit By New Zero-Day Flaws Software giant Microsoft is investigating yet another zero-day flaw attacking its Office suite of applications.
InternetNews October 6, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft Plans Nearly Dozen Patches Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows operating system and the widely-used Office application suite are part of 11 patches slated to be released next week, according to a Microsoft.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Jim Wagner	IE Frame Exploit Grabs Keystrokes iDefense warns of an exploit that can grab login and password information from Web surfers.
InternetNews January 4, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Vista Exploit Looking For Achilles' Heel First Vista exploit could mean lasting problems for Microsoft, according to a security vendor.
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