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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 September 21, 2006 Andy Patrizio	IE Vulnerability Spreads To Email The VML exploit found earlier this week could prove to be a severe problem because it can take initiative without requiring any action on the part of the user. But so far Microsoft does not appear to be a big rush to fix the problem.
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.
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Expands Zero-Day IE Warning As reports of attacks in the wild come in, Microsoft says IE 7 is not the only vulnerable version of its browser.
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.
InternetNews March 15, 2010	Microsoft Developing Patch for IE Zero-Day Flaw Microsoft scrambles to deliver a workaround to protect against a zero-day exploit in its Internet Explorer browser, says it is developing a more permanent patch.
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 February 18, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Hackers Target IE 7 Browser Again Users who failed to patch their computers after Microsoft released its monthly Patch Tuesday update last week could be in trouble - an Internet Explorer browser vulnerability for which the patch was sent out is under attack again.
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 August 26, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Beware That WinAmp Skin Zero-day exploit targets Nullsoft's WinAmp media player via the popular skinning feature.
InternetNews March 3, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Searchmeup Targets Weak PCs A new adware exploit takes advantage of IE LoadImage vulnerability.
InternetNews August 10, 2010	Microsoft Chasing Another Zero-Day Flaw Just a week after releasing an out-of-bound patch for a zero-day flaw, Microsoft is at it again, chasing down a new vulnerability that allegedly targets all supported versions of Windows.
InternetNews September 22, 2006 Andy Patrizio	VML Exploit Growing In Severity The VML exploit is growing quickly and a mass email attack could be just days away, warn security experts who are tracking the problem.
InternetNews March 11, 2010	Researcher Releases Exploit for IE Zero-Day Hole A modest security warning about a vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has quickly grown into something much larger thanks to the work of a hacker.
InternetNews November 23, 2009	Zero-Day Exploit a Threat to IE6 & 7 Browsers? Another zero-day hole emerges in key Microsoft software.
InternetNews April 2, 2007 Michael Hickins	Game On: Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch Microsoft is issuing the patch in advance of its usual Patch Tuesday schedule to counter role-play game hackers.
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.
PC World February 21, 2007 Ryan Singel	Zero-Day Malware Attacks You Can't Block No matter how diligently you patch your PC, it may still be vulnerable during the first hours of a previously unseen attack. Here's what you should know about zero-day hazards and the security holes they exploit.
InternetNews December 15, 2009	Adobe's PDF Format Again at Risk Researchers warn that an exploit is already making the rounds.
InternetNews September 7, 2010	Researcher Unearths Microsoft Zero-Day Flaw A security researcher who also happens to be a Google employee is warning of a new zero-day exploit affecting Internet Explorer 8 that could automatically send out unintended tweets.
InternetNews April 3, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	PowerPoint Hit in Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Microsoft issues a security advisory to warn of possible attacks on the company's presentation software.
InternetNews January 7, 2005 Jim Wagner	Secunia Upgrades IE Flaw The known and unpatched IE flaw goes from already bad to worse.
InternetNews August 2, 2010	Microsoft to Issue Patch for Zero-Day Hole Microsoft is breaking from its monthly security patch cadence to address a zero-day exploit that surfaced in the wild last month in an out-of-cycle release.
InternetNews February 1, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Winamp Has a Bug The standard of the early MP3 era takes a security hit as US-CERT has issued an advisory for Winamp related to a buffer overflow vulnerability that could allow a hacker to execute arbitrary code.
InternetNews February 17, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Blaster Type Virus Attack Called 'Imminent' Exploit code for 'critical' Windows ASN.1 flaw could lead to major network disruption. Microsoft Patches 'Critical' ASN.1 Flaw
InternetNews August 22, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	IE Workarounds For Zero-Day Exploit A potential zero day issue emerges as Microsoft issues an advisory about Msdds.dll that could cause some versions of IE to crash.
InternetNews December 30, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Windows 0-Day Exploit Helped by Open Source? Is Metasploit helping to spread the zero day outbreak, or is it helping security professionals to protect against it? The answer depends.
InternetNews November 24, 2009	Microsoft Confirms Bug in Older IE Versions The question is how long will it take hackers to launch attacks in the wild, and will Microsoft have a patch by then?
InternetNews October 11, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Microsoft Issues IE Security Alert Just days after Patch Tuesday Microsoft finds a significant threat in Internet Explorer 7.
InternetNews March 25, 2010	IE8, Firefox, Safari, and iPhone All Get Pwned As expected, security researchers found exploits in all of the targeted platforms in a contest that put browser security to the test.
InternetNews July 1, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	IE COM Flaw Exposed Microsoft issues advisory for browser flaw after a security firm beats the company to the punch. No patch is currently available.
InternetNews April 26, 2004 Ryan Naraine	'Critical' Windows Hijack Flaw Reported Researchers warn that the boundary error vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft's Windows platform could cause a buffer overflow and lead to system takeover.
InternetNews February 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Microsoft Fixes IE in February Patch Update A total of eight vulnerabilities get Microsoft's attention, as does an old botnet.
InternetNews July 19, 2010	Microsoft Confirms New Zero-Day Threat Security flaw can potentially affect all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 7.
PC World July 26, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Web Attack Kit Makes IE Patches Crucial Thousands of legitimate sites were recently hijacked by online thugs who used MPack, the "latest and greatest tool" for sale by the Russian underworld... Vista E-Mail Problem... Yahoo Messenger Hacks IE... HP Laptop Help Flaw... etc.
InternetNews November 9, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	New MyDoom Variant Aims at IE Hole New variant of the MyDoom virus takes advantage of Iframe vulnerability in IE. Windows XP SP2 users are not at risk.
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 June 30, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	US-CERT: Veritas Vulnerability Exploited The federal agency warns that Vertias Backup Exec is being actively exploited a week after a security hole in the software was disclosed.
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Latest IE Exploit Creates Security Scramble Attackers and security experts are in a race against time, as new, more dangerous, Internet Explorer exploits are made public. The latest, found by researchers this morning, reportedly overcomes a fix released yesterday by Microsoft.
InternetNews February 26, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Worms Continue to Wriggle, Wreak Havoc 'Zero-day' exploits and new styles of viruses send security firms scrambling to patch the latest holes in the network.
InternetNews February 23, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Apple's Safari Still a Sitting Duck? US-CERT issues an alert for MAC OS X, as zero-day exploit stays open. Switching browsers is the current remedy.
InternetNews November 21, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	Unpatched IE Flaw Now Exploitable Security firm published proof-of-concept code for a six-month-old unpatched IE flaw.
InternetNews November 3, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	More IE Vulnerabilities A trio of vulnerabilities have been reported in recent days, further exposing Microsoft Internet Explorer users to the risk of potential attack from malicious users. The same bug has been reported in Apple's Safari Web browser running on OS X.
InternetNews June 11, 2004 Ryan Naraine	Buffer Overflows Patched in RealPlayer A buffer overflow vulnerability in RealNetworks' flagship RealPlayer software could put millions of users at risk of PC takeover, the company warned in an advisory.
InternetNews July 2, 2010	Windows XP Zero-Day Leads to 10,000+ Attacks Microsoft says that the vulnerability, revealed last month, has caught the attention of attackers.
InternetNews January 19, 2010	Microsoft to Ship 'Out-of-Band' Patch New zero-day hole aided hackers in Google attacks and required immediate action.
InternetNews January 14, 2010	McAfee Fingers Microsoft IE Flaw in Google Attack McAfee's researchers say 'Operation Aurora' used a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's browser software to penetrate Google's networks.
PC World October 24, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Bumper Crop of Instant Messaging Bugs A rash of new bugs hit the popular IM clients... A new vulnerability in Windows XP... Excel has trouble with math...
InternetNews April 4, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Microsoft to Offer 2-Month ActiveX Reprieve Next week's batch of Microsoft patches will do more than update security for Internet Explorer. Patch Tuesday will include a 60-day reprieve for developers still adapting to a February upgrade of Internet Explorer 6.
InternetNews February 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Microsoft Clamps Down on Excel Zero-Day Attack Microsoft is taking steps to protect customers from attacks through a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Excel discovered earlier this week.