Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Attackers target security flaws

Attackers have set their sights on <A HREF="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1268886,00.html?track=sy160&asrc=RSS_RSS-10_160">two Microsoft flaws</A>--an unpatched DirectX Media vulnerability and the XML Core Services flaw the software giant patched last week in its MS07-042 security update.

Cupertino, Calif.-based antivirus giant Symantec issued alerts for both exploits in emails to customers of its DeepSight threat management service Monday and early Tuesday. The security vendor said it had raised its ThreatCon to level 2 in response to the threats.

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