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Defend against patch-based exploits, warns Sans
News The advice, published on Monday, follows the release of research from the University of California at Berkeley, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University that maintains that exploits for vulnerabilities in code can be reverse...
[May 6, 2008, 16:51]
Microsoft warns of rise in scareware, PDF exploits
News The use of scareware and exploits that take advantage of common file formats such as PDF, Excel and Word rose in the second half of last year as online scammers realised people are getting smarter about recognising spam and phishing emails...
[April 8, 2009, 15:54]
Porn Trojan exploits old Microsoft hole
News It isn't terribly damaging, as it exploits a bug in IE that was first found in October 2000," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos. For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking...
[January 4, 2002, 12:43]
Hacker exploits make PC worms more deadly
News Computer worms are set to become a more deadly combination of virus writing and hacker exploits, according to security experts at Symantec. Code Red and Nimda marked the demise of socially engineered worms, by combining a blended threat of proven...
[October 18, 2001, 12:20]
Finding Diversity in Remote Code Injection Exploits
White Papers Remote code injection exploits inflict a significant societal cost, and an active underground economy has grown up around these continually evolving attacks. This paper presents a methodology for inferring the phylogeny, or evolutionary tree, of...
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
Why You Need an Email Exploit Detection Engine: The Danger of Email Exploits
White Papers This white paper explains what email exploits are, provides examples of common email exploits, and discusses why a non signature-based approach (i.e.not a virus engine) is needed to protect against email exploits.
[February 1, 2009, 0:00]
Buffer Overflow Exploits: The Why and How
White Papers Buffer overflow exploits are pervasive, powerful, and easy to use. Buffer overflow exploits can be prevented. If programmers were perfect, there would be no unchecked buffers, and consequently, no buffer overflow exploits.
[November 3, 2005, 0:00]
Botnet worm exploits Symantec flaw
News It is the second such malicious code in as many months that exploits a 6-month-old security flaw in Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. Vulnerability research and exploits are going from operating system level into...
[December 18, 2006, 9:02]
Email worm exploits 11 September
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. A new email worm has surfaced that uses the terror attacks of 11 September to lure victims, antivirus...
[September 11, 2002, 15:44]
Trojan exploits unpatched IE flaw
News Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse to vulnerable computers has been found on the Internet, according to Microsoft. Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to...
[December 1, 2005, 7:50]
Virus exploits celebrity cachet
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. Users hoping for a sneaky peek at some candid shots of Hollywood star Julia Roberts in compromising...
[July 7, 2003, 15:41]
How DB2 Exploits IBM eServer p5 And AIX 5L Simultaneous Multithreading
White Papers This paper provides an overview of the IBM POWER5 SMT implementation, how IBM AIX 5L v5.3 enables SMT and how DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition exploits this technology for higher performance.
[May 8, 2009, 4:45]
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Security Intelligence Report 5: Latest Trends in Vulnerabilities, Exploits, and Malicious Software (Level 200)
White Papers The IT threat landscape is continually evolving, and IT professionals need to have the latest information and guidance on the latest security vulnerabilities, exploits, malicious software, and potentially unwanted software.
[December 23, 2008, 0:00]
Hacker exploits Microsoft bug online
News The code that was programmed on 21 June exploits a recently discovered bug in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS), which contains a buffer overflow flaw that could enable a hacker to gain full, system-level control of a server.
[July 5, 2001, 16:54]
Hackers' code exploits Sendmail flaw
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. A group of four Polish hackers published code to an open security mailing list on Tuesday that can...
[March 5, 2003, 7:55]
Worm exploits Solaris to attack IIS sites
News New computer worm exploits a known vulnerability in Solaris to attack Websites based on Microsoft's IIS server US-based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) warned today of a new computer worm that exploits vulnerabilities in common Internet...
[May 8, 2001, 13:35]
Worm exploits major Windows flaw
Talkback I fought the worm. Took me all day to get it off my computer. I first noticed the Win 32 generic host 32 message as early as Thursday or perhaps wednesday on my computer. It was then shutting down my computer about evey 3 or 4 hours or so, and...
[August 12, 2003, 11:56]
Worm exploits major Windows flaw
Talkback I was hit yesterday afternoon when trying to get on the net. It pushed me off the net and caused my computer to reboot. At first I was totally clueless as to what was going on. I switched to other service providers (as we have several accounts) and...
[August 12, 2003, 12:25]
Secunia: Security suites not blocking exploits
News While Symantec Norton Internet Security 2009 bested the 11 other suites tested, Secunia found that the product "detected a mere 64 out of 300 exploits, or less than one-fourth, leaving 236 exploits undetected".
[October 16, 2008, 11:06]
Latest MyDoom worm exploits Web site guestbooks
Talkback I run www.richcolour.com, my own little personal website that until yesterday got about 10 visits a day. I didn't expect that the guestbook could or would be compromised. It's such a rarely visited page of a tiny irrelevant website.which yesterday...
[August 17, 2004, 16:14]
