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Apple late Tuesday patched the first-ever vulnerabilities in its popular iPhone, including a critical flaw that could allow attackers to steal sensitive information, nearly one month after the year's hottest gadget went on sale. 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. Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities were revealed for two widely used instant messaging platforms this week. Cisco sewed up two serious vulnerabilities in its widely deployed IP telephony software that could allow attackers to initiate a system shutdown or takeover. Microsoft released six patches covering 11 vulnerabilities on July's monthly Patch Tuesday, including "critical" fixes impacting Active Directory on Windows 2000 and 2003 Server and its .Net Framework products. In all, Microsoft rated eight of the 11 vulnerabilities as critical. A Switzerland-based company this week launched an eBay-like marketplace for buying and selling zero-day software vulnerabilities. CA has said that products relying on its anti-virus engine contain two vulnerabilities that could be exploited to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. The company has issued updates to address the vulnerabilities, which are rated "high." A hacker named "Danny" has released two zero-day ActiveX exploits for Yahoo Messenger's Webcam application. Symantec on has patched a vulnerability in Norton Personal Firewall 2004 and Norton Internet Security 2004 that can be exploited for remote code execution. Malware detection offering snapped up. Microsoft is looking into reports of a flaw in Office 2000 disclosed as part of the Month of ActiveX Bugs (MoAxB) project. Symantec on Wednesday patched a vulnerability in Norton Personal Firewall 2004 and Norton Internet Security 2004 that can be exploited for remote code execution. The hacker who last week disclosed a vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop posted exploit code for a fresh vulnerability in the product today. Apple released its fourth security update of the year on Thursday, patching 25 software flaws, including 14 that allow malicious code execution. Vulnerability monitoring organisations have reported a flaw in numerous McAfee products that can be exploited to compromise systems. Microsoft today released seven patches - all critical - addressing 19 vulnerabilities, including a promised fix for the well-publicised but sparsely exploited zero-day DNS server flaw. DirectPointe provided a hosted security offering which included managed firewall and managed intrusion prevention. The offering uses a SonicWall-based firewall that performs automatic blocking of network attacks. 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. A popular Adobe image-editing program contains a major vulnerability for which public exploit code is available, researchers said today. Hard drives are often overlooked when it comes to patching. But an exploit in this area could be fateful.