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Attackers pushing ActiveX control just to exploit it
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| Symantec has warned that the bad guys have started using drive-by downloads
| of a genuine Microsoft software component to open a security hole for
| subsequent exploit.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19912/1054/
Hackers vs. Windows, Mac, Linux next week in big-money contest
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| CanSecWest, which will run from March 26 to 28 in Vancouver, British
| Columbia, will feature a second "PWN to Own" contest that pits researchers
| against a trio of laptops armed with the latest versions of Windows Vista
| Ultimate, Mac OS X 10.5 and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, said Dragos Ruiu,
| the conference's organizer. The first to hack one of the laptops by
| exploiting a remote preauthentication code-execution vulnerability in a
| default service on the notebook's operating system will take home the machine
| and a $10,000 prize.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=macintosh_os&articleId=9069818&taxonomyId=123&intsrc=kc_top
Ubuntu (GNU/Linux) won last year.
Recent:
Microsoft probing ActiveX attacks targeting Access feature
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| The vulnerability only affects the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer
| for Microsoft Office Access 2000, 2002 and 2003.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9984823-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Report: ActiveX, QuickTime are buggiest browser plug-ins
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| Microsoft's technology, primarily used to create add-ins for Internet
| Explorer, accounted for 79 per cent of the 239 plug-in bugs discovered
| between July and December 2007, Symantec said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1680415280&rid=-50
New Attack Kit Targets Bag of ActiveX Bugs
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| Bugs in ActiveX, a Microsoft technology used most often to create add-ons for
| the company's Internet Explorer (IE) browser, have always been common, but so
| many serious flaws have been disclosed of late that some security experts
| have recommended users do without them.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144214-pg,1/article.html
Be prepared: ActiveX attacks will persist
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| A recent string of high-profile ActiveX vulnerabilities caused the U.S.
| Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to advise users to disable the
| ubiquitous Microsoft browser plug-in technology altogether.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/19/08NF-activex-horror_1.html
Will Microsoft Change How ActiveX Runs in IE 8?
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| Some security experts, like Will Dormann, a vulnerability analyst at the
| Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute CERT/CC, are calling for
| ActiveX to be disabled from running by default in IE 8.
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| Dormann is telling IE users that they should, from a security perspective,
| disable ActiveX controls from running by default. "It would be nice if this
| is something Microsoft did with the next version of the browser," he said.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Will-Microsoft-Change-How-ActiveX-Runs-in-IE-8/
Related:
Rogue ActiveX controls menace users
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| Flaws in ActiveX controls are being increasingly used to run security
| exploits.
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| [...]
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| An attack exploiting this vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution
| by a remote attacker," a blog posting by Symantec researcher Parveen
| Vashishtha warns.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/activex_vulns/
RealPlayer Attack Circulating
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| The attack exploits a flaw in an ActiveX browser helper object, software that
| RealPlayer employs to help users who are experiencing technical difficulties,
| so the PC must be using the Internet Explorer browser to be affected by this
| particular attack, Symantec said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20071020/tc_pcworld/138706
Yahoo! battered by second ActiveX vulnerability
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| The vulnerabilities affect versions of Yahoo! Messenger 8.x prior to version
| 8.1.0.419, released late last week. Users are urged to upgrade.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/03/yahoo_activex_vuln/
Way Too ActiveX
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| Today, over at Symantec's Security Response Weblog, Greg Ahmad
| reveals startling--and I do mean shocking--increases in ActiveX
| vulnerabilities. According to Symantec, ActiveX vulnerabilities
| stayed in the 12- to- 15-a-year range from 2002 to 2005. For
| 2006, the number of vulnerabilities "reached 50," with 42 in
| the second half of the year--coincidentally, the same time
| period Microsoft finished up and released Internet Explorer 7.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/security/way_too_activex.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/33cfno
Acer puts Active X hole on laptops
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| Laptop outfit Acer seems to have placed an Active X control on its
| computers that seems to allow webpages to execute any program.
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| This huge hole in network security has been installed on board Acer
| lap-tops since 1998.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36773
Adobe Confirms 'Critical' Reader, Acrobat Exploits With IE
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| A critical security vulnerability in an ActiveX control used by
| Internet Explorer could allow malicious hackers to use Adobe's
| Reader and Acrobat software to launch PC hijack attacks,
| according to a warning from Adobe Systems.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2066079,00.asp
Month of ActiveX bugs project begins with two Office flaws
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| A hacker known as shinnai kicked off his "Month of ActiveX Bugs"
| (MoAxB) project with a bang by exposing a number of severe
| vulnerabilities affecting OCX controls in Microsoft Office.
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http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/654659/month-activex-bugs-project-begins-two-office-flaws/
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