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Mozilla to Disable ANI Exploits' Path of Entry
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-05
The Mozilla Foundation is looking at disabling support for the Windows animated cursor format as a workaround for the ANI vulnerability that has left Windows systems open to exploit and
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Microsoft Posts ANI Patch
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-03
Microsoft has posted a patch for the Windows animated cursor files vulnerability even as exploits spread.
The company is telling customers to apply the patch for what it's calling a critical flaw,
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ANI Exploit Tries the 'Hot Pictures of Britiney Speers' Shtick
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-03
ANI Exploit Tries the 'Hot Pictures of Britiney Speers' Shtick
Spam promising "Hot Pictures of Britiney Speers [sic]" is linking to sites hosting the Windows ANI
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Widespread ANI Attack Coming Out of Asia/Pacific
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-03
A large clump of sites in the Asia Pacific region are sporting embedded IFrames pointing to a site that's spreading ANI exploit code, Websense reported yesterday. An IFrame is an HTML
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Windows ANI Workaround Updated as Exploit Mutates
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-02
eEye has updated its workaround for the Windows animated cursor flaw—a flaw that some are claiming is responsible for the first real remote code execution exploit on Vista.
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Microsoft Jumps Schedule to Patch ANI
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-04-02
Microsoft is jumping its regular monthly patch schedule to release a patch this Tuesday for the animated cursor attack that's been roughhousing Windows users since it was discovered last week.
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ANI Zero Day Takes New Turns to the Uber-Nasty
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-31
If you're reading this with Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, don't. The Windows animated cursor zero-day attack that was coming through on IE 6 and 7 running on fully patched
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You PWN It, You Own It
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-30
If you haven't heard already, you're going to have to put on your Mac hacking cap for CanSecWest Vancouver 2007, in April. The show organizers plan to set up two pimped, fully loaded Apple Macbook Pros on
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ANI Exploit Tied to Hacked Super Bowl Site
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-30
The same script that planted malicious code last month on the Super Bowl site is responsible for the zero-day animated cursor file exploit on Windows XP SP2. McAfee uncovered the exploit,
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Worm Posing as IE Beta Download
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-30
A widespread malicious attack is posing as a convincing invitation from Microsoft to download a beta version of Internet Explorer 7.0, security company Sophos reported.
The e-mails appear to come
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Indiana Man Nabbed for Selling Counterfeit Software on eBay
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-30
An Indiana man will spend 27 months in prison for selling more than $700,000 worth of counterfeit software on eBay, the Milwaukee FBI announced on Wednesday.
Courtney
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Workaround Out for Windows ANI Zero Day
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-30
eEye Digital Security's Research Team has released a workaround for the zero-day Windows animated cursor vulnerability that McAfee discovered earlier in the week. Microsoft as of yesterday
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Beware the Windows Animated Cursor, Says MS
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-29
Microsoft released a security advisory regarding the vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Animated cursor, McAfee reported on Wednesday. McAfee had earlier noted a proof of concept on the
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Drive-by Exploit Plants Trojans onto Fully Patched Windows Systems Running IE
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-29
McAfee's Avert Labs have discovered a drive-by exploit on the Web that preys on fully patched Windows XP SP2 systems running IE 6 and 7 browsers. In preliminary
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Bulgarian Woman Arrested for eBay Fraud Scheme
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-03-28
The FBI has arrested a Bulgarian woman in connection with an international scheme that's responsible for defrauding eBay users of more than $350,000.
The agency announced on Monday
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