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Port 12345: Hacker haven or Internet X-File?
News According to Edward Luck, network security consultant with Australia-based IT infrastructure providers, Fulcrum Consulting Group, this software is a problem unto itself, as it contains a number of vulnerabilities.
[January 22, 2002, 9:59]
Two ways to replace your browser
News Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) has long been a favourite target of hackers, and the frequent discovery of vulnerabilities over the years has only offered more incentive. All operating systems have vulnerabilities, but Windows' popularity makes...
[August 22, 2005, 13:05]
22 new Microsoft security holes revealed
News Oliver Friedrichs, senior director of Symantec's security response centre, said three vulnerabilities could lead to a Sasser-like worm, but the danger is lessened by the fact that the vulnerable services are not started by default on most versions...
[October 13, 2004, 8:55]
Microsoft warns of rise in scareware, PDF exploits
News During the second half of 2008, Microsoft released 42 security bulletins addressing 97 vulnerabilities, a 67 percent increase over the first half of the year. For the full year, the company released 78 security bulletins addressing 155...
[April 8, 2009, 15:54]
Symantec patches four critical firewall flaws
News Guido Sanchidrián, Symantec's EMEA product manager for antivirus, content filtering and security response, said the company has spent the past month developing fixes for the vulnerabilities and has now made the patches available to its customers.
[May 13, 2004, 13:20]
Flaws quickly turn into attacks
News The Internet Security Threat Report -- based on an analysis of six months of data from the security company's widespread intrusion-detection network -- found that two-thirds of new attacks take advantage of vulnerabilities less than a year old.
[October 2, 2003, 12:25]
Firms team to win Homeland Security bid
News SecureInfo will identify potential vulnerabilities by searching for information from software makers, on security mailing lists and in chat rooms. As part of the five-year contract, the companies will identify new potential vulnerabilities that...
[November 28, 2002, 11:10]
Linux security under spotlight
News Perhaps the most important advantage that open source software can provide is that widely used code subsystems that are shown to have security vulnerabilities are fixed and reissued quickly. The statistics show a surprising trend: When you...
[December 3, 2002, 11:21]
Research firm posts own Half-Life patch
News Earlier this week, US-based PivX Solutions issued an advisory warning of three high-risk buffer-overflow vulnerabilities it discovered in Half-Life, a popular first person shooter (FPS) game. Due to the severity of these vulnerabilities, PivX...
[July 31, 2003, 11:55]
Insider warns of storage industry security flaws
News During his time in both the public sector — at NASA and the US military — and in the private sector, he claims to have seen applications with known vulnerabilities left in use, due to poor understanding of security by both storage vendors and...
[September 8, 2006, 15:35]
RealPlayer and Helix Player in Linux security scare
News Bug researcher Contex discovered the flaws and notified RealNetworks about the vulnerabilities, but the company has yet to issue a security update, said Thomas Kristensen, chief technology officer for Secunia, a security firm that rates the...
[September 28, 2005, 9:35]
Safari for Windows claims a million users
News Within hours of its launch, security watchers had spotted vulnerabilities in the software, which Apple has now moved to plug. The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute code on a machine using the Windows Safari browser if a user visits...
[June 15, 2007, 15:19]
Finding flaws helpful - MS security chief
News Conceding that vulnerabilities are more or less a way of life, the security boss says the nature of the glitch has highlighted some internal process issues. Although Microsoft doesn't pay "bug money" to researchers that find vulnerabilities, the...
[August 6, 2003, 11:45]
IE flaws open back door to adware
News The possibility that a group or company has apparently used the vulnerabilities as a way to sneak unwanted advertising software, or adware, onto a user's computer could be grounds for criminal charges, said Stephen Toulouse, security program...
[June 10, 2004, 8:45]
Microsoft: IE hole worse than reported
News Microsoft has also been at the center of a debate between software companies and security consultants about how and when vulnerabilities in products should be made public. It seems like Microsoft is deliberately downplaying the severity of the...
[December 9, 2002, 8:19]
Secunia: More Red Hat flaws than Microsoft in 2007
News However, Red Hat Security Team director Mark Cox denied that the vulnerability count was as high as 633 for Red Hat, instead claiming 404 vulnerabilities in 2007. Secunia released a security summary report for 2007 and surprisingly gave a count for...
[January 16, 2008, 12:06]
Build a patch-management policy
News Identifying and communicating identified vulnerabilities and/or security breaches to XYZ Networks' chief information security officer and chief information officer Scanning XYZ Networks' network to identify known vulnerabilities.
[August 29, 2006, 17:20]
IE flaw danger increases as exploit code released
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 5, 2004, 7:23]
Panther: A £99 security update?
News David Goldsmith, director of research for @stake, a security company that found four of the vulnerabilities, confirmed that Apple said it wasn't going to patch the flaws in earlier versions of the software.
[October 30, 2003, 8:15]
More critical fixes for Windows
News Microsoft did not specify how many flaws Tuesday's updates will address or which components of its products will be fixed.eEye Digital Security on its Zero-Day Tracker website lists a total of eight zero-day vulnerabilities that Microsoft still...
[January 5, 2007, 8:11]
