{"id":2375,"date":"2005-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/14\/major-windows-exploit-days-away\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:41:11","slug":"major-windows-exploit-days-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/07\/14\/major-windows-exploit-days-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Windows exploit &#8216;days away&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers are actively exploiting two serious security vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft warned on Tuesday as it released &#8220;critical&#8221; alerts about the flaws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Attackers are already using the JView Profiler flaw to download and install Trojan horses on victims&#8217; machines,&#8221; said Dan Hubbard, senior director at Websense Security Labs.  The Trojan horses would let the miscreants remotely control the hijacked PCs and make it part of a network of such computers known as a botnet, an increasing cyberthreat.<\/p>\n<p>The other vulnerabilty affects the Microsoft Color Management Module, a component of Windows that handles colors.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows vulnerabilities are described in two bulletins issued as part of Microsoft&#8217;s monthly patch cycle.<\/p>\n<p>A third alert deals with a bug affecting Word 2000 and Word 2002.  The Word flaw could allow an attacker to take control of a vulnerable PC, the software maker said.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.zdnet.co.uk\/0,39020330,39208852,00.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4862,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}