Tag: EXPLOIT

Just about a week after a sweeping security hole was announced that affects most versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat, software widely used by computers around the world, now we have news of a disconcerting security gap in another piece of popular software: Microsoft's Excel. The company is indicating that versions of the software dating back to Office 2000 are vulnerable to exploit, and a ...

If there's one thing Apple users love to taunt Windows users about, it's security. Mac owners giddily flaunt their lack of virus scanners and lack of worries in front of their PC comrades, whose machines look comparatively bloated with virus scanners, firewalls, and daily patch updates to fix the exploit du jour. Bad news for those Mac users, then, as a recent hacking competition showed that ...

If you use one of those Sony MicroVault USB drives with a built-in fingerprint reader, the extra security measures you're taking to protect your files may be doing more harm than good -- this according to Sony itself. A security flaw, which affects three models of the company's MicroVault USB sticks, has been discovered that works by allowing hackers to bury malicious code and files in the hidden ...