Alarm over 'pharming' attacks review
Reviews Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO of Qualys, a vulnerability management company, told me recently that pharming is simply a new name for a relatively old concept: domain spoofing. DNS poisoning is also possible via software vulnerability, however.
[February 21, 2005, 9:35]
HP BladeSystem c3000 review
Reviews ICM was updated in June, adding new options for power and vulnerability management. The c3000 can be purchased with HP's Insight Control Management (ICM) software, which handles remote deployment of operating system and application software from a...
[February 22, 2008, 14:02]
Cisco 891 Integrated Services Router review
Reviews The administrator can then review this list and jump directly to the potential vulnerability to make amendments to the configuration. For larger deployments, administration can also be undertaken remotely from a centralised management, monitoring...
[September 7, 2009, 13:39]
Internet Explorer's shrinking numbers review
Reviews When a new vulnerability is reported, users all over the planet start chiming in on whether they can reproduce it, while others start working on a fix. That VML vulnerability Then there are the very rare out-of-cycle Microsoft patches, such as the...
[October 16, 2006, 13:00]
Yoggie Pico Pro review
Reviews In addition, a vulnerability was reported back in July that could have been exploited by malicious coders to compromise a vulnerable device. Web filtering, which can be enabled via the management interface, allows web sites to be blocked by category.
[October 9, 2007, 15:30]
Security Engineering review
Reviews Economics and psychology may seem peripheral, but both are key to building security correctly: psychology helps an engineer understand how users — often the biggest vulnerability in any system — think, while economics, particularly game theory...
[October 3, 2008, 14:51]
Criminal hackers reach beyond Windows and IE review
Reviews An example might be what crackers have done with the vulnerability found in Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) that affects most non-IE browsers. I asked David Cole, director of product management for Symantec Security Response, to use the...
[March 22, 2005, 7:50]
When a security feature is no longer secure review
Reviews The vulnerability of the Protect Document feature came to light recently, when Thorsten Delbrouck, chief information officer of security company Guardeonic Solutions, announced on the security newsgroup Bugtraq that he could make changes in a...
[February 4, 2004, 7:55]
