Symantec urged users to update the Image Uploader ActiveX control to version 4.5.57.1. "Given the growing popularity of social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, attacks leveraging vulnerabilities in their client-side components are not surprising," he wrote in the warning. Kemp, however, saw the social networking angle as just as important. In fact, after the Uploader and Yahoo Music Jukebox vulnerabilities were disclosed, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), which is part of the US Department of Homeland Security, recommended IE users disable ActiveX. It counted 210 ActiveX vulnerabilities in the first half of last year alone, a prime factor in making IE a popular attack target. More than three weeks, ago, for example, another of its analysts reported seeing evidence of a new multi-exploit hacker toolkit - presumably the same one analyzed by Kemp - that included an Image Uploader attack.Įxploits against ActiveX controls are nothing unusual scores of bugs in the Microsoft-made technology were uncovered and exploited in 2007, according to Symantec. Symantec has been tracking attacks against the Aurigma vulnerabilities most of the month. Yahoo, meanwhile, plugged a pair of holes in Music Player on February 6, two days after Broad published attack code for both. Not until February 13 did the company claim " Image Uploader is safe again!" New bugs cropped up a week later, however, forcing Aurigma to again patch the ActiveX control. The Aurigma bug was disclosed at the end of January by researcher Elazar Broad shortly after that, a spokeswoman for Facebook and MySpace claimed that the social networking sites were alerting members of the danger. "It is unlikely that attackers will stop trying to leverage this vulnerability any time soon." " how quickly attackers are leveraging new vulnerabilities," said Kemp. In case you end up having a larger paper, then. (Pro tip: You should always select the same photo as well as the paper size for printing. Kemp noted the hackers' fast reaction time. Step2: Now, Select the printer, orientation, Scaling, paper and the photo size for printing. I've read the other threads on similar issues - the response is always something like 'you're loosing cookies or session variables' I have my script code iterating ALL cookies. Although the Windows and QuickTime bugs were patched 8 and 13 months ago respectively, the Uploader and Yahoo vulnerabilities were made public and fixed only within the last few weeks.
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