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Flaw Detected In Check Point Security

News Two of the most popular pieces of security software on the Internet contain a newly discovered flaw that could enable an intruder to send traffic through a firewall or possibly launch a denial-of-service attack.

[July 11, 2001, 11:07]

Flaw Threatens SME Security Devices

News A flaw affecting eight vendors' Universal Threat Management security appliances was identified by US-based security firm Calyptix last week. One of the affected devices is Check Point's Safe@Office, which on Friday was the only vendor to have...

[July 2, 2007, 17:39]

Flaw Reported In Updated Firefox

News A potential flaw has been reported in the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox web browser, version 2.0.0.12. Vulnerability researcher Ronald van den Heetkamp published a directory traversal flaw in Firefox version 2.0.0.12 on Friday, hours after...

[February 11, 2008, 11:48]

Flaw Found In MS Security Patch

News A flaw in a software tool just released by Microsoft could lead software developers to inadvertently write programs that are vulnerable to attack, according to security specialists who discovered the flaw.

[February 14, 2002, 14:04]

Flaw Harbours Slammer Potential

News A research company warned on Tuesday that an attacker could use a recently patched Microsoft flaw to create a fast-moving worm similar to SQL Slammer, which spread rapidly across the Internet a year ago.

[December 10, 2003, 7:30]

Flaw Threatens Major Worm Attack

News A hacker group has released code designed to exploit a widespread Windows flaw, paving the way for a major worm attack, security researchers warned. In June 2001, his company released details of another Microsoft flaw, in a component of Web server...

[July 28, 2003, 8:55]

Flaw Threatens Source Of Open Source

News It doesn't get much more critical than allowing an attacker to modify source code and secretly plant Trojans, backdoors, and other rogue code -- and those are the kind of activities that can result from this flaw.

[February 10, 2003, 12:52]

Flaw Lets Malicious Web Pages Attack Windows

News The flaw in the scripting component of the operating system lets attackers run code through the scripting engine as if the program had been executed locally on a PC, allowing them to run their own programs or to take over the system.

[March 20, 2003, 8:21]

Flaw Found In Sony DRM Patch

News Sony BMG is replacing a patch for its CD copy-restriction software after Princeton University researchers found a security flaw in the update. Along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, the record label released a patch...

[December 9, 2005, 8:05]

Flaw Discovered In Symantec Firewall

News Researchers have discovered a flaw in Symantec's Raptor firewall that could allow attackers to hijack legitimate communications with a protected system. A weakness in the generation of these ISNs could allow a remote attacker to easily predict...

[August 6, 2002, 11:48]

Antivirus Flaw Crashes Exchange Servers

News In the digital equivalent of an autoimmune disease, Microsoft Exchange servers at a handful of companies have crashed because of a flaw in the Network Associates antivirus software that's designed to protect them.

[June 13, 2003, 8:06]

VPN Flaw Puts Internal Networks At Risk

News Because of the implied security a VPN is supposed to provide, many companies let users connect directly into an internal network -- a practice that could make this flaw a valuable one for Internet attackers, warned Marc Maiffret, chief hacking...

[September 27, 2002, 7:31]

FrontPage Flaw Puts Servers In Jeopardy

News Microsoft warned Web site administrators on Wednesday that a flaw in its FrontPage extensions could allow an attacker to take control of their servers or cause the computers to seize up. For FrontPage Server Extensions 2002, the flaw could result...

[September 26, 2002, 7:43]

KDE Flaw Opens Linux Systems To Attack

News The flaw, deemed "critical" by the research outfit FrSIRT, could allow a remote attacker to gain control over vulnerable systems. An attacker could craft a special UTF-8 encoded URI sequence to exploit the flaw, according to the advisory.

[January 23, 2006, 9:15]

Cisco Flaw Creates An Opening For Insider Attacks

Talkback Although Cisco have stated that this flaw is only exploitable by insiders, I have been shown many other ways that hackers use to gain access. I employed the services of Paul Brereton who is considered to be one of the foremost security experts in...

[August 23, 2004, 1:32]

Windows XP Flaw Opens Door To Trojan Attack

News The flaw is unrelated to the recent help-file flaws outed by a Chinese security company last week. A patch is not yet available from Microsoft for the October flaw, nor the most recent flaws, but the software giant said its programmers are working...

[December 30, 2004, 8:50]

Cisco Flaw Creates An Opening For Insider Attacks

News Cisco has provided a patch for the security flaw and has also provided several workarounds for the problem. Cisco released a security advisory on Wednesday warning that some Cisco networks could be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.

[August 19, 2004, 16:15]

Google: We've Fixed Desktop Search Tool Flaw

News Google has fixed a flaw that allowed hackers to search the contents of a PC running its desktop search tool. Wallach describes it as a composition flaw -- where a security weakness is caused by the interaction of several separate components.

[December 20, 2004, 12:05]

Security Flaw Found In Mozilla Browser

Talkback This isn't really a flaw on the level of say a typical Internet Explorer flaw allowing the takeover of the computer by simply browsing the internet

[July 9, 2004, 10:34]

Critical PHP Flaw Patched

News By exploiting the flaw, an attacker could take control of the Web server that runs a vulnerable version of the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessing (PHP), according to the Hardened-PHP group, which found the flaw.

[December 20, 2004, 7:40]


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