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iDefense ups ante for bounty hunters
News Security intelligence company iDefense has sweetened its offer to hackers who sell it details on new software vulnerabilities. The payouts are used to gain a competitive edge over rivals by having their products recognise more vulnerabilities that...
[July 27, 2005, 9:50]
iDefense launches format testing kit
News There could be a significant increase in the discovery of such flaws.iDefense, a security intelligence company, is making available tools that let researchers automate the discovery of file format vulnerabilities.
[July 29, 2005, 16:50]
iDefense offers bounty for Vista and IE7 flaws
News Security intelligence and analysis company iDefense is to offer an $8,000 bounty for vulnerabilities found in Vista and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7).iDefense, which became part of Verisign in July 2005, is offering the cash as part of its...
[January 11, 2007, 15:44]
Facebook evolves into an attack tool for criminals
News As Facebook evolves from a University alumini network into an enterprise tool, VeriSign iDefense security experts are warning that the platform is turning into a prime attack vector for cybercriminals.
[July 30, 2007, 8:18]
Flaws set to spawn another Blaster
News Ken Dunham, an analyst at iDefense, said on Tuesday that it is "highly likely" that new worms or Trojan horses will emerge in the next few days. Microsoft has seen the sample code identified by iDefense and is in the process of reviewing it...
[September 17, 2003, 8:54]
AOL: Fix for critical IM flaw due this week
News We have been working on a resolution in tandem with iDefense for more than a month," said Krista Thomas of AOL's corporate communications division. Thomas said that AOL is grateful to "Matt Murphy and iDefense for their assistance to responsibly...
[August 10, 2004, 15:20]
Beware the 'Happy New Year' worm
News Worm-laden messages are titled "Happy New Year" and contain an attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip, according to experts at VeriSign's iDefense Labs, which provides information on security flaws and exploits.
[January 2, 2007, 7:57]
IBM denies Domino flaw
News The denial-of-service (DoS) flaw appears in versions 6.5.1 and 6.0.3 of the email and calendar server software, security company iDefense said in an advisory released on Wednesday. Exploitation of this vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote...
[April 8, 2005, 9:20]
Sober worm poised to strike again
News The next attack is hard-coded in the version of Sober that hit the Net on 22 November, iDefense, part of VeriSign, said in a statement Wednesday. That leaves Internet users with less than a month to shore up their defences against Sober, which was...
[December 8, 2005, 9:00]
Acrobat flaw opens door to attack
News An error in the web browser plug-in of Adobe Systems' tool lets cybercrooks co-opt the address of any website that hosts an Adobe PDF file for use in attacks, Symantec and VeriSign iDefense said. For example, an attacker could find a PDF file on a...
[January 4, 2007, 7:29]
OpenOffice bug hits multiple operating systems
News The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at iDefense, who claim that the OpenOffice TIFF parsing code is flawed. This results in the allocation of a buffer of insufficient size, which in turn leads to a heap overflow," the iDefense team...
[September 25, 2007, 10:00]
Backup software hit with security alerts
News The three vulnerabilities were outlined by security company iDefense on Tuesday. The NetBackup vulnerability was disclosed in November, also by iDefense. Two makers of backup software are dealing with security holes that could let an outsider...
[January 19, 2006, 8:50]
UK users targeted by banking Trojan
News As a result, those one-time PINs and transaction numbers are never logged onto the Web site and they remain valid, said Ramses Martinez, a director at security firm iDefense. As a result, those one-time PINs and transaction numbers are never logged...
[March 27, 2006, 9:05]
May Day hysteria unfounded, say activists
News A newsletter from corporate security firm iDefense warns: "While last year's May Day protests were marked by a certain degree of Internet organisation and street violence, preparations for protests [this year], have seen far more activity and a...
[April 30, 2001, 14:38]
Exploit code quick to follow Microsoft patches
News Verisign's iDefense team also announced that it had developed a "proof of concept" exploit code for a security hole in the ".ART" file, a file type used often for AOL services and Web sites, according to iDefense.
[June 15, 2006, 9:55]
Microsoft besieged by zero-day attacks
News There is more than one thing going on right now in terms of zero-days," said Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense. At one point several million domains were redirecting to malicious VML sites, according to iDefense.
[September 28, 2006, 9:20]
Security experts round on Oracle over unpatched holes
News Kornbrust is a respected researcher, security experts from VeriSign's iDefense and eEye Digital Security said. The time that Kornbrust claims Oracle has left the vulnerabilities unpatched is "phenomenal", said Michael Sutton, a lab director at...
[July 20, 2005, 9:25]
XP flaw allows for DoS attacks
News Security researchers at iDefense are also looking into the vulnerability. It does not look like it is more than a DoS," said Michael Sutton, a lab director at iDefense. A newly discovered and as-of-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Windows XP...
[July 18, 2005, 9:15]
RealPlayer and QuickTime flaws could let hackers in
News Meanwhile, security firm iDefense warned this week that it has discovered an exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in Apple's QuickTime Player that could affect computers with Microsoft's Windows but not those with Apple's Macintosh OS.
[April 2, 2003, 16:06]
Don't fear the Sober, just prepare for it
News Security research company iDefense warned of increased strain on mail servers as traffic increases due to compromised machines trying to mail out the virus update. As widespread as this worm has become, the outbreak could have an even greater...
[December 12, 2005, 12:25]
