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Our instinct is to fix bugs when we come across them, but sometimes that can cause more harm than good. 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. When news broke this week that Apple QuickTime contains a new and extremely dangerous flaw, it served as a perfect lead-in to today's unveiling of the latest SANS Top 20, which lists client-side vulnerabilities among the biggest threats facing end-users. Apple on Monday released a new version of its popular QuickTime media player to resolve seven vulnerabilities, six of which could have been exploited to remotely install malicious code on a user's machine. Mozilla patched eight flaws in its products on Thursday, including “critical” issues in Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. AJAX, Web 2.0 security

No, you did not miss the memo or a software upgrade notice. Yet you’ve already arrived at Web 2.0. The “upgrade” from Web 1.0 to the new Web 2.0 world has been an evolutionary process, continually driving the Web to be more interactive, useful and interesting for consumers and the business community. Intel's latest processor has triggered a debate about the reliability of hardware. Where do you stand? Mac OS X will be the focus of the next month-of-bugs project, scheduled to kick off 1 January, a leading security blog reported today. Microsoft isn’t the only company updating its web browser against new security threats. Oracle on Tuesday delivered 51 fixes in a quarterly patch distribution that included an updated scoring system for organisations to measure the risk and impact of vulnerabilities. Hackers using a new class of vulnerabilities are targeting organisations using open-source software to develop custom programs, Fortify Software has warned. Millions of computers with registered copies of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) are at risk to a variety of attacks via a vulnerability in AIM 6.1, AIM beta 6.2, AIM Pro and AIM Lite, according to researchers at Core Security. Virtualisation software maker VMware issued a bulky patch release today to shore up 18 vulnerabilities, most of which affect the critical ESX Server. Mozilla on Thursday acknowledged that a year-old vulnerability in the QuickTime media player plug-in for Firefox could let a hacker break into the open-source browser. In one of its lighter Patch Tuesday cycles in recent months, Microsoft released four fixes, including a patch for a critical vulnerability in its Windows Agent animation services. Microsoft has made this week's Patch Tuesday release a bit easier on IT professionals. Microsoft announced yesterday that it will release five security bulletins - one for a flaw deemed "critical" - next week as part of its September Patch Tuesday distribution. Oracle announced plans to deliver 46 patches on Tuesday to repair a number of vulnerabilities in its database and associated products. Polish researcher Michal Zalewski has revealed four new browser vulnerabilities — two each in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and Mozilla's Firefox — on the Full Disclosure mailing list this week. While the month of MySpace bugs project kicked off on schedule to start the month, another hacker campaign turned out to be an elaborate April Fools' Day joke.