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<copyright>Copyright 2007 Virusproof Docs</copyright>
<pubDate>Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:40:25 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Is It Time To Consider Pdf A Threat?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Adobe released patches for its Reader and Acrobat programs last Wednesday, but there's reason to suspect that the company has closed the barn door long after the 
cattle fled. According to a <a href="http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3958">blog</a> entry at the SANS Internet Storm Center, this particular vulnerability has been exploited in the wild for several weeks...]]></description>
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<title>Data Breach Affects 650k Customers Of 230 Retailers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Backup tape goes missing from Iron Mountain Facility. 650'000 credit cards, 150'000 Social Security numbers.]]></description>
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<title>Warning Of Data Ticking Time Bomb</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned.

Natalie Ceeney said society faced the possibility of "losing years of critical knowledge" because modern PCs could not always open old file formats.]]></description>
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<title>Storm Worm Strikes Again</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new variant of the Storm Worm (aka Snow Worm) is slamming into e-mail inboxes worldwide as an apparent patch or fix for a recent worm attack.]]></description>
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<title>Old-timers Top Malware Chart But Web-based Threats Pose Greater Problems</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sophos announces the top ten threats and hoaxes reported in March 2007.
 
Sophos, a world leader in IT security and control, has revealed the most prevalent malware threats and email hoaxes causing problems for computer users around the world during March 2007.]]></description>
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<title>Trojan Masquerades As Internet Explorer 7 Downloads</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Spammers are using fake Internet Explorer 7 (Beta 2) downloads to lure Windows users into downloading a nasty backdoor Trojan.]]></description>
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<title>Cursor Hole Puts Windows Pcs At Risk</title>
<link>http://www.virusproofdocs.com/news/cursor_hole_puts_windows_pcs_at_risk</link>
<description><![CDATA[A new security vulnerability puts Windows users at risk of serious cyberattacks, Microsoft warned late Wednesday. 

The vulnerability affects all recent Windows versions, including Vista, which Microsoft has promoted heavily for its security. The operating system software is flawed in the way it handles animated cursors, Microsoft said in a security advisory.]]></description>
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<title>The Extraordinary Failure Of Anti-virus Technology</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Anti-virus (AV) technology is no longer effective because virus writers are testing their new threats against the more popular AV products before releasing them. AV products have been trying for nearly 20 years to deal with the virus threat and have made very little progress.]]></description>
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<title>Storm Worm Keeps Spreading</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Trojan horse in emails exploiting concern about European storms continued its advance by adopting a wider variety of fake news headlines, according to Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure Corp.]]></description>
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<title>Most Digital Content Not Stable: Archivists</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From the article: "One of the problems is that [digital is] so susceptible, so vulnerable to damage," Noel said. "I've had audio tape come into the archives, for example, that had been submerged in water in floods and the tape was so swollen it went off the reel, and yet we were able to recover that. We were able to take that off and dry it out and play it back. "If a CD had one-tenth of one per cent of the damage on one of those reels, it wouldn't play, period. The whole thing would be corrupted."]]></description>
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<title>Rise In Data Theft, Data Leakage, And Targeted Attacks</title>
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<description><![CDATA[From Symantecs latest <a href="http://www.symantec.com/threatreport/">Threat Report</a> "Theft or loss of a computer or data storage medium, such as a USB memory key, made up 54 percent of all identity theft-related data breaches." The full Internet Security Threat Report includes additional statistics and detail and is available for download at http://www.symantec.com/threatreport/]]></description>
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<title>Vulnerabilities In Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Word is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this issue by enticing a victim to open a malicious Word file. If the vulnerability is successfully exploited, this could result in the execution of arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user.
A patch is <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS07-014.mspx" title="Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution">available here</a>]]></description>
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<title>Microsofts Antivirus Deletes Users E-mails</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has admitted that its Live OneCare security suite has been accidentally deleting some users' Outlook and Outlook Express e-mails.

Fron the article: "In a statement reported on Computerworld, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the company was "working to address an issue where the antimalware engine for OneCare is erroneously quarantining Outlook .pst files or Outlook Express .dbx files, when the .pst file or .dbx file contains an infected attachment". The spokesperson added that a fix would be included in the next OneCare update, which is due on 13 March."]]></description>
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<title>Disk Drive Failures 15 Times What Vendors Say, Study Says</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Customers are replacing disk drives at rates far higher than those suggested by the estimated mean time to failure (MTTF) supplied by drive vendors, according to a study of about 100,000 drives conducted by Carnegie Mellon University.]]></description>
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<title>The Missing Microsoft Patches</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sans has an interesting list on their site regarding the <a href="http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=1940">currently known / actively exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Products</a>. Of particular importance is <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0870">this one</a> which lists the problem as "Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000". How do problems of this danger level remain "Unspecified"?]]></description>
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<title>Adobe Reader Flaw Uncovered By Researchers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Security researchers have discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the widely used Adobe Acrobat Reader software that could make it easy for attackers to launch malicious code.]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft Patches Pdf Vulnerability</title>
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<description><![CDATA["This vulnerability is critical since the malicious PDF could be hosted on a Web site or distributed via e-mail where it could be scanned by the infected AV engine at the gateway or when it arrives at the desktop," according to a Symantec statement. "A successful exploit will completely compromise the affected computer."]]></description>
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<title>Powerpoint Malformed Record Memory Corruption</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint contains a vulnerability that could be exploited when PowerPoint opens a specially crafted document. The vulnerability is caused by incorrect handling of malformed records, which can cause memory corruption. This vulnerability affects both Windows and Mac versions of PowerPoint.
By convincing a user to open a specially crafted PowerPoint document, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running PowerPoint. If the user is logged in with administrative privileges, the attacker could take complete control of a vulnerable system. This vulnerability may also cause PowerPoint to crash.]]></description>
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<title>Word Fails To Properly Handle Malformed Strings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Word contains a memory corruption vulnerability that could be triggered when Word opens a document containing a malformed string. Although this vulnerability was initially reported to only cause a denial-of-service, it is now believed that it can be used to execute arbitrary code.
Note that this vulnerability is actively being exploited.
More information is available in Microsoft Security Advisory (933052)]]></description>
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<title>Router Hack Attack Could Expose Home Network Users</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Symantec and Indiana University have warned of a security weakness that could leave users open to attack through their routers if the devices are left on their default settings. Router manufacturers regularly include with their products materials informing buyers about the need to change their default passwords. How many consumers, though, are tech-savvy enough to heed the warnings?]]></description>
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<title>Got Anti-virus Protection? Feel Safe? Think Again!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The FBI 2005 Computer Crime Survey found that 98% of companies surveyed used anti-virus protection. But 84% of survey respondents still got hit by at least one virus attack (including worms and trojans). And virus attacks were by far the most costly type of computer security incident.]]></description>
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