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The Importance of Change Advisory Board
White Papers A key part of managing changes in IT is to have a change advisory board (CAB). A CAB offers multiple perspectives necessary to ensure proper decision making. For example, a decision made solely by IT may fail to recognize the concerns of accounting.
[November 23, 2004, 2:00]
Microsoft issues advisory on IIS security problem
News Microsoft on Tuesday issued a security advisory for a Web server flaw that was made public on Monday. In its advisory, Microsoft said it has not seen any active attacks, although it acknowledges that detailed exploit code was published to the Web.
[September 2, 2009, 10:09]
Microsoft issues DNS poisoning advisory
News The issue affects Windows Server 2003 (standard, enterprise and data centre editions), Windows 2000 Server (also the advanced and data centre versions) and Windows NT Server 4.0 standard edition, Microsoft said in its advisory.
[April 8, 2005, 9:55]
Spanish IT Company Wins Projects, Reduces Costs With Technical Advisory Services
White Papers The company began working closely with Microsoft Partner Program Technical Advisory Services, which provides support and advice during implementations and helps the company develop best practices. IT services company Euclides Informacion, based in...
[May 30, 2009, 1:19]
Hacker joins US Homeland Security in advisory role
News Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the US Homeland Security Advisory Council. The HSAC members will provide recommendations and advice directly to secretary of...
[June 8, 2009, 8:57]
Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Secure Shell Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
White Papers The Secure Shell server (SSH) implementation in Cisco IOS contains multiple vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated users the ability to generate a spurious memory access error or, in certain cases, reload the device.
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
Former ICL chief to lead broadband advisory group
News The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), the industry body that advises the government on its broadband strategy, has a new chairman -- former ICL chief executive Keith Todd. The appointment of Todd, who replaces e-commerce Minister Douglas Alexander...
[February 11, 2002, 15:45]
Cisco Security Advisory: Crafted IP Option Vulnerability
White Papers Cisco routers and switches running Cisco IOS or Cisco IOS XR software may be vulnerable to a remotely exploitable crafted IP option Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Exploitation of the vulnerability may potentially allow for arbitrary code execution.
[June 9, 2007, 1:00]
Key Management Policy and Practice Framework: Risk and Advisory Services
White Papers This paper takes the position that business risk drives the need for cryptographic solutions, which in turn necessitates establishing and maintaining sound key management policies and practices. Cryptographic hardware, although preferred over...
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory Service: "Virtual MySQL DBA" Assistant for the DBA
White Papers For over ten years, the MySQL database server has been the heart of data-driven applications that serve a growing and intensely demanding customer base. The "M" in the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python), MySQL has been battle-tested...
[March 4, 2008, 0:02]
Cisco NAC vulnerable to attack
News Cisco Systems has issued an advisory about two serious software vulnerabilities in one of its network access control products, Cisco NAC Appliance, also known as Cisco Clean Access (CCA). According to the Cisco advisory, the vulnerability — called...
[January 5, 2007, 13:38]
Researcher discovers OpenSSH flaw
News An advisory issued on Wednesday by vendor Internet Security Systems (ISS) warns that versions OpenBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.1, FreeBSD-Current, and OpenSSH 3.0-3.2.3 are affected by the vulnerability. It is possible for a remote attacker to send a...
[June 27, 2002, 9:24]
Wozniak to give Danger advice
News Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has resigned from Danger's board of directors but will join its newly created advisory board, the handheld developer announced Monday. Wozniak, who joined Danger's board in late 2001, will serve on an advisory board...
[March 11, 2003, 9:49]
Malicious code targets critical Windows flaw
News Computer code that exploits a "critical" vulnerability in Windows has been released on the Internet, prompting Microsoft to issue a security advisory. The attack code takes advantage of a flawed Windows routing and remote-access component for which...
[June 27, 2006, 10:55]
XOsoft's WANSync Chosen to Secure the Firm's Technology and Communications Infrastructure With State-of-the-Art Disaster Recovery Capabilities
White Papers An independent investment advisory firm, located in rural upstate New York, successfully manages money using a value approach with special attention to personal relationships. The advisory firm's IT department wanted to ensure that all servers were...
[January 4, 2007, 17:58]
New IE flaw details published
News Microsoft has issued a security advisory for Internet Explorer, after a research firm published a working exploit to demonstrate how attackers could take advantage of the flaw. We have not been made aware of any attacks attempting to use the...
[July 4, 2005, 9:15]
Hackers may be snooping on you - Broadband scare
News That's the danger highlighted in a security advisory released on Wednesday by hacker-cum-security specialists L0pht Heavy Industries. Except for the denial of service attack, the malicious programmer needs to be inside the network, stated the...
[August 12, 1999, 11:43]
Mobile phone vulnerable to DoS attack
News US-based security company @stake has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.
[February 26, 2003, 13:23]
Cisco patches Wi-Fi vulnerabilities
News In an advisory published on Thursday, Cisco warned that its Wireless Control System (WCS) contains multiple vulnerabilities that can result in information disclosure, privilege escalation and unauthorised access to the network.
[April 13, 2007, 14:37]
Microsoft 'solves' hacking mystery
News An advisory from the software giant last week warned companies of a number of attacks targeting servers running Windows 2000, the cause of which had initially puzzled Microsoft. Microsoft has determined that these attacks do not appear to exploit...
[September 10, 2002, 8:02]
