A single insignificant Windows flaw managed to survive from code dating back to Windows 2000, to Windows Vista, pass unnoticed by the Microsoft static analysis tools and through the company's fuzz tests, and grow to the size of a critical vulnerability. And the Windows Animated Cursor handling vulnerability, eve... |
30 April 2007
17:16 GMT |
 |
|
Windows Vista is Microsoft's new axis mundi. Vista is furthermore the central architecture of the Redmond Company's security efforts. A comparison between the impact of the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability and the DNS flaw comes to prove this point. Just after five days since the .ANI file for... |
30 April 2007
04:12 GMT |
|
|
A month after McAfee performed the Windows Vista suicide on video, Microsoft is coming up with an explanation and a eulogy. Microsoft's touted most secure Windows platform could be crashed by nothing more than a malformed animated cursor. Craig Schmugar, virus research manager with McAfee demonstrated how Window... |
27 April 2007
09:15 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft's latest operating system managed to hold its own against attacks targeting the Windows Animated Cursor Handling vulnerability publicly disclosed as the beginning of April, 2007. Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure Corp. Chief Research Officer attending InfoSecurity Europe in London told the IDG News Service that... |
25 April 2007
03:37 GMT |
|
|
The .ANI file format vulnerability impacting Windows Animated Cursor Handling has gotten a lot of play lately. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the Windows Animated Cursor Handling flaw is the first pure blood, pure bred Windows Vista critical vulnerability. As I have mentioned, before there are two vecto... |
4 April 2007
11:54 GMT |
|
|
Have you ever wondered about the evolution of Microsoft security updates? Well, here is your chance to get an inside perspective on the process of building Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-017, designed to address the critical vulnerability impacting Windows Animated Cursor Handling. Microsoft managed to make the upd... |
4 April 2007
10:08 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security update addressing a Pleiades of vulnerabilities in GDI, including the now infamous critical flaw in Windows Animated Cursor Handling. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-017 addresses the whole range of GDI vulnerabilities affecting Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows ... |
4 April 2007
09:42 GMT |
|
|
All it took was one critical vulnerability and Windows Vista became a true operating system superstar. I am of course speaking about the critical vulnerability impacting Windows Animated Cursor Handling and affecting Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. The Microsoft Security Response Cent... |
2 April 2007
10:46 GMT |
|
|
It took Microsoft more than three months to come up with a patch for the Windows Animated Cursor Handling critical vulnerability but not until the flaw began being exploited in the wild. On the first day of April, Microsoft Security Response Center revealed that the company would make available an out of band securit... |
2 April 2007
02:50 GMT |
|
|
While Microsoft is dormant, and has been dragging its feet when it comes to produce a security update to resolve a critical vulnerability impacting Windows Animated Cursor Handling, eEye Research is delivering a cure for the malformed animated cursors plaguing Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista. While Microsoft ... |
31 March 2007
06:27 GMT |
|
|
Is Microsoft moving in slow motion when it comes to patching security vulnerabilities? That seems the case with a recent zero-day vulnerability impacting Microsoft Windows Animated cursor handling. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista are all affected by the critical flaw that allows for re... |
31 March 2007
04:27 GMT |
|
|
Microsoft has issued a public warning related to a new zero-day vulnerability targeting Windows .ani files that impacts all versions of the Windows platform including Vista. The zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Animated cursor handling is currently being actively exploited; but the Microsoft Security respo... |
30 March 2007
02:44 GMT |
|
|
Find us on Google+
