Rogue songs 'can control PCs' via RealPlayer hole
News RealNetworks acknowledged on Wednesday that three flaws affecting different versions of its media player could allow attackers to create corrupt music or video files that, when played, take control of a victim's PC.
[February 6, 2004, 7:35]
Anti-Virus Is Dead: The Advent of the Graylist Approach to Computer Protection
White Papers This truth became clear in the past two years as new Application Control/Software Authentication products emerged that took a far more effective approach to blocking rogue software. The reality is that viruses, worms, trojans, and other forms of...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Be Proactive and avoid the impacts caused by zero-day exploits
Talkback The solution is to prevent this rogue code from executing - which can be achieved by adopting an Application Control solution. Application Control provides policy-based enforcement of application use to secure endpoints from malware, spyware, zero...
[December 11, 2008, 9:10]
What whitelisting can really do for you today!!
Talkback Though such a choice lessens the initial burden on IT, as a company grows those few savvy users are joined by well-meaning users installing rogue applications - sometimes incorrectly - corrupting files and registries in the process.
[February 2, 2009, 9:00]
FUD over ChromeOS's security already?
Blog This implies that, while the OS retains some control over rogue code, it's up to developers to contain such issues as SQL injection and rogue anti-virus software. But as the same release points out (and in doing so rather undermines its argument...
[July 9, 2009, 12:42]
APPLICATION CONTROL/WHITELISTING IS AN EFFECTIVE DEFENSIVE TOOL
Talkback Though such a choice lessens the initial burden on IT, as a company grows those few savvy users are joined by well-meaning users installing rogue applications - sometimes incorrectly - corrupting files and registries in the process.
[February 16, 2009, 15:50]
Norton Internet Security 2002 review
Reviews To ensure that a rogue program can't masquerade as a trustworthy application, such as Outlook Express, for example, NIS 2002 verifies programs against digital signatures from a database it installs and keeps current, courtesy of LiveUpdate, which...
[January 16, 2002, 23:00]
Anti-spyware software targets Gator
News In extreme cases, software makers download spyware to users' machines surreptitiously with the use of pop-ups, Web pages or rogue email and through vulnerable browser settings. But Judge Gerald Bruce Lee dismissed the argument, saying that people...
[September 10, 2003, 10:10]
UK citizens confused by security terminology
News revealed that words, such as phishing, rogue dialler, Trojan and spyware were often a mystery to 1,000 people questioned, of whom over half were Internet users. Rogue diallers are software applications that are secretly installed on a computer and...
[April 4, 2005, 12:55]
Adobe fixes critical flaws in Reader, Acrobat
News The patches are needed because PDFs and Acrobat documents have become the conduit for rogue software that turns a user's PC into part of a botnet, warned Matt Watchinski, director of vulnerability research at security vendor Sourcefire, who...
[June 10, 2009, 17:45]
Excel hole opens PCs to hackers
News As script kiddies know this may lead to taking full control over user's computer," said Guninski. Last week the company warned Windows NT and 2000 users of a new flaw in its debugger tools that could let attackers give themselves complete control...
[May 27, 2002, 16:01]
