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Stuxnet malware threatens multiple industries

...Security experts from the Sans Institute has said they have found multiple instances of Stuxnet-like malware... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Darren Pauli
<endeca_term>SANS Institute</endeca_term>: Oracle Database Firewall Review - Monitoring and Blocking SQL Injection Attacks and Other Threats

SANS Institute: Oracle Database Firewall Review - Monitoring and Blocking SQL Injection Attacks and Other Threats

...detected at the web application layer. In this hands-on review, the SANS Institute Analyst Program examines how the Oracle Database Firewall monitors database activity... Read more

1 December, 2011
<endeca_term>SANS Institute</endeca_term>: Oracle Database Vault Review - Controlling Privileged User Access to Sensitive Application Data

SANS Institute: Oracle Database Vault Review - Controlling Privileged User Access to Sensitive Application Data

...sensitive data should be given access. In this hands-on review, the SANS Institute Analyst Program examines Oracle Database Vault, which provides the capability to... Read more

1 December, 2011

Teenager crowned UK cybersecurity champion

A teenage university student has won a GCHQ-backed competition designed to find and encourage UK cybersecurity... Read more

12 March, 2012

Microsoft security update flags Google.com for malware

...and Denmark reported that Forefront was blocking access to Google. Security organisation Sans Institute said that Microsoft fixed the issue on Tuesday in Forefront update... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Book review: Cyber Warfare

...— right from the foreword, where the president of security experts The SANS Institute confesses to being fooled into friending a fake Facebook persona (luckily... Read more

14 February, 2012

SANS gives ASP.NET denial of service warning

...publication of proof-of-concept denial-of-service code, security training organisation SANS Institute has said. "If you have not patched yet for vulnerability MS11... Read more

10 January, 2012

Bind 9 DNS software suffers unexpected crashes

...ESV-R5-P1; Bind 9.4-ESV-R5-P1. Security training organisation Sans Institute said that there was a potential zero-day issue with Bind... Read more

18 November, 2011

Former postman finds infosec 'fairytale'

...PricewaterhouseCoopers, QinetiQ, Sophos, HP Labs, Science Applications International Corporation, Cassidian and the Sans Institute have sponsored the Cyber Security Challenge. Summers has had a series... Read more

28 October, 2011

Hackers target Adobe Flash zero day

...take advantage of the crash triggered by the corrupted Flash file, the Sans Institute said in a blog post. "These attacks seem to be particularly... Read more

15 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Wakefield postman wins Cyber Security Challenge

...Stuart Rennie also got a Global Information Assurance Certification exam from the Sans Institute. UK security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones said the government will... Read more

7 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Linux kernel exploit roots 64-bit machines

...September, and patched by Linux kernel developers on 14 September. Security organisation Sans Institute said on Sunday that it recommended Linux administrators patch the kernel... Read more

21 September, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Cybersecurity challenge kicks off

...a 'treasure hunt' to find flaws in a dummy website, run by SANS Institute and Sophos. The competitions will take place on a series of... Read more

26 July, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Cyber security defences will crumple without government backing

...government recognition came a public strategy. Just over a year ago, the Sans Institute, alongside the US National Security Agency, the Department for Homeland Security... Read more

16 September, 2010 by Alan Paller
Have Things Changed Now - an Empirical Study on Input Validation Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

Have Things Changed Now - an Empirical Study on Input Validation Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

...Unfortunately, web applications are also frequently targeted by attackers. Recent data from SANS institute estimates that up to 60% of Internet attacks target web applications... Read more

17 January, 2012

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