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We hear a lot about new vulnerabilities, but as Gunter Ollmann explains, there are still plenty waiting for a patch Another internet banking security blunder has been revealed, leaving users able to view each others' credit details. Four days was all virus writers needed to take advantage of the latest Internet Explorer vulnerability. Mydoom AG, which sends links to a website unwittingly hosted by an infected PC, has capitalised on a weakness only announced on Friday. The Sasser worm was infecting thousands of systems by exploiting a recently announced Microsoft flaw, security experts said Monday. Cisco is urging customers to switch use of security protocols after a new software tool exploited a serious flaw in its WLAN products. A vulnerability intelligence firm today reported a flaw in the popular Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) which could allow remote attackers to compromise a gaming console. Despite dire predictions by some security researchers that a recently patched critical Windows flaw could lead to widespread destructive attacks, Microsoft experts insisted today that such an outcome appears unlikely. As many IT security experts predicted, malware taking advantage of a flaw patched by the Aug. 8 MS06-040 bulletin emerged over the weekend, but Microsoft experts maintain the exploit poses little threat. Microsoft advised PowerPoint users this week to avoid Office files from untrusted sources - and unexpected files from trusted sources - as a workaround for the recently discovered flaw in PowerPoint now being exploited in targeted attacks. A researcher has found yet another flaw in Microsoft Excel - the third since this month’s Patch Tuesday security bulletin release. Users of the Winamp application were told this week to upgrade their software in responses to a bug in version 5.12 of the program. Microsoft PowerPoint users were warned this week about a new exploit that takes advantage of a zero-day flaw in the program to drop a malicious file onto a compromised computer. A patch for recently discovered – and exploited – flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) is scheduled to be a part of April’s Patch Tuesday release, but could be released earlier. Microsoft been warned about a possible buffer overflow vulnerability in Windows’ help platform that could leave users at risk of malicious code run onto their PCs. The recently disclosed Windows metafile exploit could damage many enterprise systems, not just those that directly use the affected processes, Gartner has warned. Microsoft calls it "information anarchy." Security, physical, cyber, and otherwise, is on everyone’s mind these days.