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AOL wins 'hostile code' ruling

...that America Online and other Internet service providers are not liable for "hostile code" sent between subscribers. The US Court of Appeals for the Third... Read more

23 January, 2003 by Paul Festa

Microsoft declares a 'war on hostile code

...project is aimed at waging what Microsoft is calling a "war on hostile code", according to Dave Thompson, vice president of Windows development for Microsoft... Read more

11 April, 2001 by Robert Lemos

Worms sing an ode to security

...ability to embed Web addresses and scripts -- key ingredients in self-propagating, hostile code. "What we're looking at here is the fact that you... Read more

27 February, 2002 by Paul Festa

Virus attacks: The bad news gets worse

...If the future holds more sophisticated, harder to identify, and faster migrating hostile code, what's a company to do? Luckily, there's no shortage... Read more

18 January, 2001 by Martin Goslar

Battling the Internet parasites

...viruses, worms and Trojans in the computer industry. Traditionally, we have classified hostile code in three categories, each based upon the behaviour of the code... Read more

13 March, 2001 by Robert J.Bagnall

I'm Spartacus!

...works by switching arguments, and the timing of the security checks. The hostile code makes a normal call to a Windows service that is legitimate... Read more

10 May, 2010
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BlackICE PC Protection 3.6.crh

...name; it fully inspects the contents of each packet, looking for hidden hostile code that personal firewalls cannot detect; it protects you from attack, even... Read more

13 September, 2008

Netscape gets 'No Phishing' sign

...of websites that are suspected of purveying spyware, phishing schemes and other hostile code. When someone accesses such a site using Netscape 8, the browser... Read more

1 February, 2005 by Paul Festa

RealPlayer and QuickTime flaws could let hackers in

...to accept Web addresses and scripts -- a key route for self-propagating, hostile code. The current vulnerabilities come at a time when streaming content has... Read more

2 April, 2003 by Sandeep Junnarkar

Microsoft talks the talk on security

...of last year's Microsoft security push, the so-called "War on hostile code" launched in April 2001. "We are making sure the quality is... Read more

23 July, 2002 by Peter Judge

Experts warn of IE Gopher hole

...also when the proxy setting is on if the proxy passes the hostile code unchanged. We have not investigated any particular proxy servers on this... Read more

6 June, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Search engine crawlers dig up way too much

...types that are more susceptible than Web pages to viruses and other hostile code. "The security issue was a top thing I thought of when... Read more

26 November, 2001 by Paul Festa

How hack attacks are getting smarter

...authors found that central source-based network worms like Lion, which transfer hostile code via http, ftp, or rpc directly to the infected computer from... Read more

23 November, 2001 by Robert Vamosi

Symantec admits to LiveUpdate security hole

...s LiveUpdate 1.4, which could be used to download and run hostile code from an unauthorised server. Symantec, which makes antivirus and security software... Read more

11 October, 2001 by Wendy McAuliffe

Security showdown: Black Hat vs. Def Con

...getting the bugs out of its own programs, announcing its "war on hostile code" in April. Don't expect any panacea for the high-tech... Read more

11 July, 2001 by Robert Lemos

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