Microsoft on Tuesday issued patches to fix critical vulnerabilities in DirectShow and Video ActiveX that have been targeted in attacks, as well as fixes for holes in Embedded OpenType Font Engine and Microsoft Publisher that could allow someone to remotely take control of the PC.
The South Korean secret service has blamed North Korea and its 'hacker army' for three waves of DDoS attacks on US and South Korean government and company servers. The botnet of zombie computers, of which 20,000 alone were reported to be located inside South Korea, were not just used for carrying out the DDoS attacks, but also to spread the MyDoom trojan, programmed to delete the host computer's hard drive at a specific time – although erasure only occured in a few cases.