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Hacker Mitnick testifies before Senate
News And my goal was obtaining information on all security vulnerabilities so I'd be effective in compromising any security system that I chose to compromise," he said. Regarding that unsuccessful hacking attempt, Mitnick, who in the past has cracked...
[March 3, 2000, 9:25]
More flaws found in Oracle security
News Security researchers have taken the company to task for being slow in fixing security vulnerabilities and providing faulty patches when it does update its software. Wright and Cid identified several vulnerabilities, including a weak hashing...
[October 28, 2005, 7:00]
Microsoft wraps up patches for Christmas
News Those numbers do not necessarily indicate that Microsoft has made progress in its fight against security vulnerabilities. The current issues include problems with a format converter in WordPad software; flaws in the Microsoft implementation of...
[December 15, 2004, 7:55]
Microsoft complains about 'irresponsible' security revelation
News We believe the commonly accepted practice of reporting vulnerabilities directly to a vendor serves everyone's best interests, by helping to ensure that customers receive comprehensive, high-quality updates for security vulnerabilities with no...
[November 10, 2004, 11:28]
'Drive-by' hacking a real threat
News Based in Atlanta, and working with organisations such as the FBI and Interpol, as well as Queensland-based Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT), X-Force is designed to expose vulnerabilities and security flaws before hackers have...
[November 16, 2001, 10:10]
Do we need visibility into open source?
Blog Palamida’s study says that these are the factors to question yourself on if you work in open source: what open source code are you using, where are you using it, how much do you have, what security vulnerabilities are associated with it and what...
[March 4, 2008, 8:56]
Mac security concerns grow
News Sean Richmond, senior technology consultant at security software vendor Sophos said the vulnerabilities were a worry for Mac shops. Of the 25 vulnerabilities, 14 included the possibility of executing arbitrary code, and a handful also involved...
[May 1, 2007, 10:50]
Microsoft says security programme is speeding fixes
News Meanwhile, the Microsoft Security Response Center said that of the 50 security bulletins it published from October 2008 to June 2009, patches were released in response to 138 vulnerabilities. In estimating how exploitable vulnerabilities are...
[July 28, 2009, 9:41]
Microsoft patches new security flaws
News The higher-rated of the two bulletins includes a patch that fixes four separate vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) software. That alert, rated "important", addresses vulnerabilities that could make servers running...
[May 29, 2003, 7:47]
Ballmer cites 'facts' in Microsoft's battle against Linux
News And it's pretty clear that the facts show that Windows provides a lower total cost of ownership [than Linux]; the number of security vulnerabilities is lower on Windows; and Windows responsiveness on security is better than Linux; and Microsoft...
[October 27, 2004, 17:20]
Tackling Microsoft's August patches: Part 2
News Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-041, "Vulnerabilities in DNS Resolution Could Allow Remote Code Execution", fixes two vulnerabilities: Winsock Hostname Vulnerability (CVE-2006-3440) and DNS Client Buffer Overrun Vulnerability (CVE-2006-3441).
[August 22, 2006, 13:10]
Mobile Networks Threatened - DEFCON Hackers Could Help
Blog As the MBTA debacle at DEFCON points out, there are significant vulnerabilities at hand with regard to cyber security. As the annual DEFCON event provides a basis for revisiting corporate security vulnerabilities, it seems that the wireless...
[August 19, 2008, 18:57]
Flaws don't die - study
News The vulnerabilities exploited by the Code Red and SQL Slammer worms, for example, are allowing those threats to reassert themselves on the Internet, said Gerhard Eschelbeck, chief technology officer for vulnerability-assessment company Qualys.
[July 31, 2003, 8:40]
Exploit code increases threat of IE flaws
News Exploit code for one of the vulnerabilities, a flaw in an HTML Help control, was published on the Internet on 21 December in an advisory by GreyHats Security Group. Secunia said on Friday that it had raised its rating of the vulnerabilities in...
[January 10, 2005, 7:40]
McAfee to support VMsafe
News As VMware has not provided third-party access to its hypervisor through software development kits (SDKs), which may introduce vulnerabilities, VMware has so far escaped the security issues which have plagued other companies that encourage third...
[March 3, 2008, 16:05]
Perl flaw more dangerous than thought
News Format string vulnerabilities are not new, but experts previously thought such flaws in applications written in Perl could not be used to remotely run code on a target system, experts from Symantec and eEye
[November 30, 2005, 9:10]
Microsoft issues eight Windows fixes
News Attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities with increasing speed, and it's imperative that computer users protect themselves by installing updated software patches as quickly as possible. The others cover vulnerabilities in Microsoft software.
[November 15, 2006, 9:39]
Hacker finds fault in .Net security
News Moore, a hacker and senior security analyst for Digital Defense, told attendees of the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, that the .Net Framework could nearly eliminate some types of vulnerabilities that plague...
[May 3, 2002, 8:49]
Adobe promises fixes for Reader and Acrobat
News The vulnerabilities are the latest in a string of security flaws found in Adobe's products. Adobe has said it will issue updates to its Reader and Acrobat products on Tuesday 12 May, in a bid to fix recently discovered critical vulnerabilities.
[May 5, 2009, 17:31]
Security warning too quick for comfort?
News The warning's release reopened a long-simmering debate over how much time a security researcher should give a software maker to verify and fix vulnerabilities that could affect large numbers of computer users.
[June 18, 2002, 9:21]
