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A security researcher said Monday he has discovered an unpatched ActiveX vulnerability in RealPlayer, the popular media player, and is working on an exploit. Microsoft has revealed that attackers are exploiting a zero-day ActiveX vulnerability in Microsoft Access.
Roughly one month after Microsoft disclosed that attackers were exploiting a zero-day Active X vulnerability, the attacks are multiplying; but mostly in China. Critical ActiveX control flaws have been detected in the Yahoo! Music Jukebox, which like vulnerabilities reported last week in MySpace and Facebook image uploaders, may permit attackers to take control of users' PCs. Symantec has warned that a critical flaw in the ActiveX control of image uploaders that have been widely distributed to users of popular social networking sites Facebook and MySpace can be exploited by hackers to install malicious code on user's computers. Users who remain vulnerable to an ActiveX photo uploader vulnerability used on many websites are now being targeted in active attacks, researchers from Symantec said today. A number of Hewlett-Packard notebook models are vulnerable to an ActiveX attack that could permit a hacker to execute malicious code. Researchers at security research firm Secunia have revealed a "highly critical" security vulnerability in Yahoo's desktop Widgets. Widgets are software plug-ins that allow delivering a variety of information - weather reports, sports scores, and music - to users' computer desktops. Yahoo patched two vulnerabilities in Messenger's ActiveX control, which were disclosed by a hacker offering proof-of-concept exploit code earlier this week. The Public Key Infrastructure solves many security problems, but also introduces risks that require careful management. With flaws in many new products, vendors should listen a bit more to the research community perhaps Last month, users were more likely to be struck by trojans than any other kind of virus. In Unix it is important that there be multiple levels of administrator rights, and managing that with group permissions is pretty awkward. I recall wondering why there was not such a utility for Windows since, arguably, Windows has the same challenges with administrator rights in spades. Adobe and Cisco have released security advisories covering vulnerabilities that, in some cases, would allow an attacker to take control of an infected system. The Sophos Endpoint Security and Control is a subset of the Sophos Network Access Control Advanced. Virtualisation software maker VMware has disclosed 16 vulnerabilities across its product line. RealNetworks, maker of RealPlayer, has issued an update to address four serious bugs. Microsoft is investigating a zero-day vulnerability in Visual Studio. In its largest security update in 18 months, Microsoft on Tuesday delivered 11 patches to resolve 26 vulnerabilities in its operating system and related components. Microsoft plans 12 fixes - seven for "critical" bugs - in next week's monthly patch delivery.