vulnerability

Researchers say they've discovered new ways to read what you're typing by aiming special wireless or laser equipment at the keyboard or by simply plugging into a nearby electrical socket.

Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program has a 0-day vulnerability that attackers are already exploiting on the Internet, according to security vendor Symantec.

Nine of out 10 critical bugs reported by Microsoft last year could have been made moot, or at least made less dangerous, if people ran Windows without administrative rights, a developer of enterprise rights management software claimed Tuesday.

Microsoft on Tuesday patched three vulnerabilities in the company's Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocal, including two that could make "swiss cheese" out of enterprise networks, according to one researcher.

Chinese security researchers mistakenly released the code needed to hack a PC by exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's IE 7 browser, potentially putting millions of computer users at risk -- but it appears some hackers already knew how to exploit the flaw.

Along with its biggest patch release in five years, Microsoft warned on Tuesday of another potentially dangerous vulnerability in its software.

Over a million of the Internet's DNS servers are still vulnerable to a cache-poisoning attack patched in July.

Two Princeton University academics have found a type of coding flaw on several prominent Web sites that could jeopardize personal data and in one alarming case, drain a bank account.