Security Exploits: Who's To Blame?
News Many companies are getting better at dealing with security researchers, said Michael Sutton, director of iDefense Labs, which deals with researchers and software makers. It was definitely a surprise to see Cisco's reaction," iDefense's Sutton said.
[September 6, 2005, 16:40]
CA Flaws Opens Users Up To DoS Attacks
News The flaw enables a writer of malicious code to disable CA's eTrust Intrusion Detection System 3.0, which in turn weakens a company's defence against a DoS attack, said Michael Sutton, director of iDefense Labs.
[April 7, 2005, 9:40]
IBM Denies Domino Flaw
News The only reason I can think for the differences we found were the configurations that were specific to their hardware.iDefense first notified IBM of the problem in the Lotus Domino Server software in February, said Michael Sutton, director of...
[April 8, 2005, 9:20]
Hackers Target Outlook Express Flaw
News In addition, the exploit code that's in circulation has some glitches, said Michael Sutton, a lab director at security company iDefense. It requires a reasonable amount of user intervention, which lowers the overall risk," Sutton said.
[June 27, 2005, 9:15]
McAfee Security Problem Exposed
News Home users are unlikely to be affected by this flaw because they generally do not assign user restrictions on their PCs, said Michael Sutton, iDefense Labs director. This is not a high-risk vulnerability," Sutton said.
[April 20, 2005, 10:05]
Cisco Sounds Multiple Security Warnings
News The CallManager vulnerabilities are not considered "critical", because the attacker would need to be inside the network in order to exploit it, said Michael Sutton, director of iDefense Labs. Sutton also rated these vulnerabilities as important...
[July 15, 2005, 9:40]
Windows Exploit Code Surfaces
News Furthermore, code that exploits a flaw in Microsoft's Windows FTP client (MS05-045) is available publicly on the Internet, said Michael Sutton, director at security intelligence company iDefense, a part of VeriSign.
[October 14, 2005, 10:35]
Security Experts Round On Oracle Over Unpatched Holes
News The time that Kornbrust claims Oracle has left the vulnerabilities unpatched is "phenomenal", said Michael Sutton, a lab director at iDefense. I'm hopeful that Oracle will publicly respond to this allegation as customers deserve an explanation...
[July 20, 2005, 9:25]
JavaScript Bug-hunting Tool Revealed
News We do not want to release anything that could be used for malicious purposes," said Michael Sutton, a security evangelist for the company, which sells web security tools. A security researcher at ShmooCon in Washington on Saturday demonstrated, but...
[March 26, 2007, 9:38]
Exploit Published For Old Firefox Flaw
News Because the security bug was quashed more than three months ago, the exploit release is less of a concern, said Michael Sutton, a lab director at security company iDefense. Computer code that could be used to attack systems with older versions of...
[July 7, 2005, 11:00]
Library Flaw Puts Applications At Risk
News The security vulnerability may affect many applications, but the potential impact is not simple to calculate, said Michael Sutton, a lab director at security company iDefense. A security flaw in a widely-used data compression technology could put...
[July 8, 2005, 9:15]
IDefense Ups Ante For Bounty Hunters
News However, it turns out that the timing is also good in that it helps us straddle the new competition," said Michael Sutton, a lab director at iDefense. Security intelligence company iDefense has sweetened its offer to hackers who sell it details on...
[July 27, 2005, 9:50]
XP Flaw Allows For DoS Attacks
News 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 could let an attacker remotely crash computers.
[July 18, 2005, 9:15]
No Fix For 'critical' Hole In Windows 98, ME
News Not providing fixes leaves users vulnerable, but software can't be supported forever, said Michael Sutton, a director at security intelligence company iDefense, a part of VeriSign. Microsoft will not fix a serious flaw in Windows 98 and Windows...
[June 12, 2006, 12:05]
PayPal Fights Fraud With Password Key Fob
News In a recent survey of Google's public blacklist of phishing sites, security researcher Michael Sutton found that nearly half of all the active phishing sites targeted either eBay or PayPal. eBay is getting ready to offer its PayPal users a password...
[January 12, 2007, 8:49]
Hackers Pick At Firefox Holes
News I would certainly recommend that users implement the vendor workarounds until a patch is made available," said Michael Sutton, director of security company iDefense. The vulnerability, which could let attackers secretly run malicious software on...
[September 14, 2005, 7:25]
IDefense Launches Format Testing Kit
News I really do think this is a low-hanging-fruit area for vulnerabilities," Michael Sutton, a lab director at iDefense, said in a presentation at Black Hat.iDefense itself has found several file format flaws.
[July 29, 2005, 16:50]
Windows Exploit Code Threat Multiplies
News Michael Sutton, director at security intelligence company iDefense, a part of VeriSign, agreed. Sutton also warned computer users to be on guard for exploitation of the unpatched bug. Microsoft may issue a fix outside of its monthly patching cycle...
[December 2, 2005, 8:30]
WMF Flaw: Malice Or Incompetence?
News Michael Sutton, director at security intelligence company iDefense, a part of VeriSign, also doesn't buy Gibson's theory. Postings are flying fast and thick in the security community over a researcher's suggestion that Microsoft hid sneaky code in...
[January 16, 2006, 8:20]
