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BlackBerry PDF Flaw Threatens Corporate Networks
News A 'high' severity flaw affecting how BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) opens PDF attachments could be exploited to compromise a corporate network. RIM has given the advisory a 'high' severity rating.
[July 16, 2008, 16:16]
Symantec: Windows Flaws More Severe
News In its comprehensive Internet Security Threat Report Volume XI, which covers the period from July to December 2006, Symantec said that out of 39 Microsoft vulnerabilities disclosed during this period, 12 were of high severity, 20 were of medium...
[March 23, 2007, 15:23]
Dataminning To Investigate The Prescribing Of Medications Longitudinally
White Papers Severity conditions of a patient are classified using Enterprise Miner (data mining). Probability density estimation is plotted using kernel density estimation methods to compare the total cost and private insurance payment for the severity...
[June 1, 2007, 1:00]
IE Trumps Firefox In Microsoft Safety Study
News Since the release of Firefox 1.0 in November 2004, Mozilla has fixed 199 vulnerabilities in supported Firefox products — 75 high severity; 100 medium severity; and 24 low severity. In the same timeframe, Microsoft has fixed 87 total vulnerabilities...
[December 4, 2007, 7:58]
Symantec: Mozilla Browsers More Vulnerable Than IE
News Eighteen of these were classified as high severity. During the same period, 13 vendor-confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for IE, eight of which were high severity," according to the report. The average severity rating of the vulnerabilities...
[September 19, 2005, 14:00]
Surveillance Or Dead Lock?
News For example, a syn-flood attack might be set to a severity level of high, and an ICMP flood might be set to medium. Traffic patterns are compared against known attack signatures, and alarms are typically set to go off according to certain...
[August 20, 2002, 20:19]
System Availability Targets
News Severity of the problem: Usually, the greater the severity of the problem, the more time is needed to fully resolve the problem, including restoring lost data or work done. If high availability level is desired, consider only the unplanned outages.
[February 6, 2003, 12:54]
About Risk: What Should We Worry About
White Papers Judgments of the probability of low-probability events are always difficult, and imagining the severity of a high severity event is always easier when it has just happened than when it is yet to happen.
[November 1, 2004, 23:00]
How To Achieve Compliance With Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Protection Clauses And Protect Against Data Breaches
White Papers With the severity of recent data breaches, anxiety in the security and compliance community has reached a new high. Questions are being asked about what it means to be PCI compliant, particularly in the context of protecting data from data breaches.
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Guide To High-Speed Data Service Interruptions
White Papers Through understanding the different service interruptions, it is believed that MediaOne can better identify the severity of each interruption and what needs to be done to properly address it.This information will steer the development of...
[September 23, 2003, 6:20]
TippingPoint Goes Public With Zero Day Flaws
News The list shows, for example, that Adobe Systems and CA have yet to address high-severity issues that were reported 146 days ago. TippingPoint only publishes the vendor name, the severity of the bug it reported and when it reported the bug.
[September 1, 2006, 15:45]
The Year Ahead: Is The Internet Becoming Safer For Children?
News Contrary to expectations, the government-backed report failed to grasp the severity of the issue, and placed the onus for policing chatrooms on Internet Service Providers (ISPs). But with law enforcement rapidly wising up to the severity of...
[January 1, 2002, 6:31]
Patches Released For 'critical' Windows Flaws
News Two of the security updates announced on Tuesday rated highest on Microsoft's severity scale. The last security update was rated "moderate" in severity. Security company Symantec said the new product vulnerabilities include "high risk" threats.
[July 14, 2004, 9:05]
AMD Cuts Prices To Match Intel
News For AMD, the severity of price cuts is often the difference between profits and losses. We expect Intel to dust off its tactic of using high margins in segments that AMD can't address to subsidise aggressive pricing in markets where AMD is...
[May 30, 2002, 16:21]
Microsoft To Simplify Security Alerts
News The company had been rating severity of security problems as "low," "moderate" or "critical. There is also a widespread feeling that the Severity Ratings are difficult to understand and apply. Microsoft has added a fourth severity designation...
[November 20, 2002, 10:41]
Microsoft Forms Antivirus Alliance
News The Virus Information Alliance Web site has been set up to carry latest incident reports on viruses with severity ratings of moderate to high; consumer security updates; best practices for infections and denial of service attacks; tools; and...
[May 20, 2003, 11:00]
Italian Develops First Multi-site Web-mail Worm
News Also other popular providers (for example Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) suffer from XSS [vulnerabilities] in their web-mails, but their severity is not so high to let worms like Nduja Connection to propagate," Valotta wrote.
[July 13, 2007, 9:31]
Linux Servers 'attacked More Often'
Talkback Symantec has documented several high-severity vulnerabilities affecting it. The same firm mi2g also wrote the following http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/190204.php QUOTE London, UK - 19 February 2004, 13:30 GMT - mi2g Intelligence Unit data shows...
[February 20, 2004, 19:14]
Sober Comes Out Of Hibernation To Spread Hate
News MX Logic's Threat Centre has reported seeing more than 125,000 instances of the Sober.Q worm and categorised it as a high severity threat. Another variant of the Sober virus, which spreads right-wing messages in German and English, appeared over...
[May 16, 2005, 9:25]
Windows PCs Threatened By JPEG-handling Flaw
News The severity of the flaw had some security experts worried that a virus that exploits the issue may be on the way. The potential is very high for an attack," said Craig Schmugar, virus research manager for security software company McAfee.
[September 15, 2004, 9:00]
