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Oracle releases first quarterly patch
News Database maker Oracle released on Tuesday a single critical update for its database and Web application software that's designed to close nearly two dozen security holes. The Critical Patch Update, available on the software company's Web site, is...
[January 19, 2005, 8:10]
3Com puts firewall on a NIC
News So far the 3CR990 has been sold with an encryption application, which offloads encryption tasks from the host CPU, but the firewall is the next security application in a list which 3Com intends to add.
[April 25, 2002, 17:01]
L0pht's Anti-Sniff can only be used for good
News Computer security think-tank L0pht Heavy Industries on Monday released the first version of its Anti-Sniff application, designed to protect systems from covert network probing. Particularly notorious "security" tools that have doubled as useful...
[August 31, 1999, 16:47]
Software Self-Healing Using Collaborative Application Communities
White Papers Monoculture can be leveraged to improve an application's overall security and reliability. This paper introduces and explores the concept of Application Communities: collections of large numbers of independent instances of the same application.
[October 9, 2009, 2:04]
CAG CALLS FOR WHITE-LISTING - THIS MAKES A LOT OF SENSE!
Talkback Comprehensive application whitelisting - like Lumension Security Endpoint Protection Solution also offers many more benefits to organisations and the IT environment: A further benefit to application whitelisting is the ability - and the opportunity...
[February 24, 2009, 23:50]
Sophos urges caution on Facebook apps
News According to IT security vendor Sophos, the discovery concerning the Secret Crush application underscores the need for Facebook users to be careful about the kinds of third-party applications they install.
[January 8, 2008, 14:49]
Integrated Edge Security Improves Media Company's Network Security and Performance
White Papers Now employees have better remote access to applications and data, and the company has a more protected IT environment with application-level security. The company needed to give remote employees more secure access to Web-based applications, but its...
[September 5, 2007, 1:00]
Keeping a firm hold on Skype security
News No worm has spread on Skype, and while security experts have painted a target on the popular internet telephony application, its defences have been pretty solid, according to the company's chief security officer, Kurt Sauer.
[January 3, 2007, 8:55]
Solid Windows Vista Protection
White Papers Threats have moved (and will continue to move) into other areas, such as the Web application layer, where the majority of all new security vulnerabilities reside today. Over the past several years, these vulnerabilities have increasingly moved up...
[May 9, 2008, 1:02]
Firewall-fooling flaw exposed
News Malicious code masquerading as a trusted application could trick a ZoneAlarm firewall into letting it connect to the Internet, security experts have warned. An attacker could trick the firewall by linking a keystroke logger or other malicious...
[October 3, 2005, 16:05]
Practical Approaches for Securing Web Applications across the Software Delivery Lifecycle
White Papers What many don't understand, is how to implement a robust process for integrating security and risk management throughout the web application software development lifecycle. Securing the web application lifecycle does not have to mean slowing it down.
[November 20, 2009, 0:25]
BEA keeping busy on software updates
News The new version will feature improved security, better support for Web services and new tools that will allow software developers to run and manage software that runs on top of the application server, BEA executives said.
[April 29, 2002, 14:19]
Symantec to identify safe software by 'reputation'
News Essentially, this approach involves looking at where a program can be found across the database of Symantec users, categorising the reputation of those machines and coming to a judgement on whether the application poses any security risks.
[October 24, 2008, 12:12]
DeployPHP Series, Part 2: Bringing Data Security to PHP Applications
White Papers However, the PHP developers must acknowledge that linking sensitive and often mission critical data to an application accessible outside the corporate network is a serious security risk. Using PHP to build a Web-based, database-driven application...
[October 17, 2006, 0:00]
Arming Linux against hackers
News First released to the public in January 2001, Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a research project from the NSA that seeks to enhance the open-source Linux kernel: to provide greater protection against corruption; to prevent the bypassing of...
[February 18, 2004, 13:40]
Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Database Vault
White Papers Traditional approaches to security have relied on the application to enforce access control for application users, the database administrator to maintain both database and application availability and network routers and firewalls to restrict...
[January 5, 2007, 10:16]
Sun Web server in security alert
News The problem exists with the Netscape Web server software that works with Sun's application server, formally called iPlanet Enterprise Server. Sun has issued a patch for version 6.5 of the Sun ONE Application Server, but has not written a patch for...
[March 14, 2003, 14:51]
Word's password feature 'not a security tool'
News The tool is intended to make collaboration easier, Microsoft told ZDNet UK, explaining that users should invest in digital signatures or an Adobe Acrobat-type application if they want security. He agreed that if a company wanted to transport...
[January 7, 2004, 16:40]
Enterprise Application Development Using PHP and Oracle
White Papers This paper addresses the background, why the authors chose PHP, Oracle9i, Apache, and Linux, structure of the application, security, synchronization, lessons learned and advice to developers. At McGill University's (Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
[October 17, 2006, 0:00]
Oracle releases fixes for 101 flaws
News In terms of critical fixes, the majority of them lie within the application server product," said Darius Wiles, the senior manager for security alerts at Oracle. There are also patches for 14 vulnerabilities in Application Server, 13 related to E...
[October 18, 2006, 9:20]
