Microsoft Corp. today patched the already-exploited Windows animated cursor vulnerability with a critical out-of-cycle security update that also fixed six other flaws. The MS07-017 security bulletin, ...

IT staffers in the past week have been working to fend off attacks related to the recently disclosed Windows Metafile (WMF) vulnerability. With third-party patches already available, Microsoft ...

The Redmond, Wash.-based developer's security research center (MSRC) acknowledged the goof in a blog entry by operations manager Mike Reavey. "In our effort to put this security fix on a fast track, a ...

"An attacker may leverage these issues to carry out a denial-of-service attack or execute arbitrary code," Symantec said in a vulnerability alert issued through its DeepSight Management System. The ...

Just when you stopped having nightmares about the Windows MetaFile (WMF) bug of '05: now there's a new WMF exploit in the wild. A researcher with the pseudonym of cyanid-E yesterday published a new ...

Microsoft has issued a patch that addresses three critical security vulnerabilities in the way that its operating system processes Windows Metafile images. The patch, called Windows Update MS05-053, ...

A patch has been widely released for a vulnerability in the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, a problem rated as “highly critical” by one security vendor. The flaw could be exploited by creating a ...