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Apple Quickly Patches iPhone SMS Vulnerability

Apple Quickly Patches iPhone SMS Vulnerability

Last week at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner demonstrated how an iPhone could be taken over with a specially-crafted text message. Once an attacker has done that, he can install malware on the phone, if desired, or use it to perform spam more attacks on others.

Unsurprisingly, this received a lot of publicity, especially as the flaw also exists in the Android and Windows Mobile platforms.

Equally unsurprising is Apple’s hurried response – on Friday they released a patch for the texting flaw in the iPhone 3.0.1 software update.

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DNS Exploit Flaw Arrives

DNS Exploit Flaw Arrives

Not long ago security research Dan Kaminsky revealed a flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), although he refused to give details. Those came, somewhat inadvertently, thanks to another researcher, Halvar Flake.

Now, inevitably, the first exploit code for that flaw has arrived.

Luckily, it’s been created by two other researchers, HD Moore and Druid, who’ve developed an exploit module that runs that Moore’s vulnerability-testing framework, Metasploit, according to Vnunet.

Kaminsky had refused to give details of the flaw until a solution had been developed, and that was followed by a massive patch rollout, so many servers are already patched against any potential attack.

Microsoft Warns of ActiveX Attacks

With Patch Tuesday here and no critical updates on the horizon, Microsoft has issued a warning about some attacks on a flaw in the ActiveX control for Snapshot Viewer, a browser plug in for Office 2000, 2002 and 2003. Office Access 2007 doesn’t have the flaw.

Since only Internet Explorer uses ActiveX, other browsers are safe. Exploiting the flaw could give a hacker control of the computer.

However, IE with the Enhanced Security Configuration is safe.

First Flaw In Firefox3

First Flaw In Firefox3

Firefox 3 set a record, notching up over eight million downloads in the first 24 hours of its release, and giving Mozilla a 6% share of the browser market. But one thing they didn’t need – certainly not so quickly – was for someone to find a flaw in the browser.

But Tipping Point’s Zero Day Foundation has done exactly that, according to CNET News. It reported a flaw, that it rates as critical, within five hours of the browser being released, and they say it’s a flaw that also affects Firefox 2.
Although they won’t say what the flaw is, giving Mozilla a chance to patch it, they will confirm that it could let an attacker execute arbitrary code.

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