Tag archive: Marc Maiffret

“A spokeswoman for the software giant confirmed that engineers at the Microsoft Security Research Center were investigating the eEye discoveries. “At this time, Microsoft is not aware of any malicious attacks attempting to exploit the reported vulnerabilities, and there is no customer impact based on this issue,” she said.” Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer at eEye, said the flaws were rated… Read More

Reuters is reporting that in its monthly security bulletin, the world's largest software maker warned that Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 were at risk and offered software updates to fix the flaws, which were given Microsoft's highest severity rating of “critical.” Marc Maiffret, co-founder of eEye Digital Security, the company that discovered the flaw, criticized Microsoft for… Read More

As a result of the Internet worms — which are viruses that spread through a network — hundreds of thousands of PCs worldwide, at the minimum, have been infected. Many have crashed and networks have slowed to a crawl. The Internet Explorer vulnerabilities could enable an attacker to run unwanted software on a computer and even take control of it if a victim were to visit a malicious Web site, the company said on Thursday. With… Read More