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Talkback Update from BUGTRAQ: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/379207/2004-10-24/2004-10-30/2 For a complete overview: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/379356/2004-10-24/2004-10-30/1
[October 27, 2004, 23:33]
HP Threatens Researchers With DMCA
News On 19 July, a researcher at SnoSoft posted a note to SecurityFocus.com's popular Bugtraq mailing list with a hyperlink to a computer program letting a Tru64 user gain full administrator privileges. HP hereby requests that you cooperate with us to...
[July 31, 2002, 12:15]
How To Steal 2,500 Credit Cards, Part 1
News This is a microcosm of what's out there," said Elias Levy of SecurityFocus.com. Prokhorov also contacted SecurityFocus.com with his information, and the site today will issue its own report based on its independent investigation.
[January 17, 2000, 9:19]
HP Backs Down On DMCA Warning
News On 19 July, a researcher at SnoSoft posted a note to SecurityFocus.com's popular Bugtraq mailing list with a hyperlink to a computer program letting a Tru64 user take over the system. HP hereby requests that you cooperate with us to remove the...
[August 2, 2002, 7:45]
Microsoft Goes On A Bug Hunt
News Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering for SecurityFocus.com, says he believes that Active Setup presents a significant problem. SecurityFocus.com's Huger believes the sudden flood of bugs, right on the heels of the Windows 2000 launch, is a...
[February 29, 2000, 10:44]
Firefox 1.5 'smashes' 1.0 Download Stats
Talkback Security Focus reporting a DOS exploit for Firefox 1.5 http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/73 Didn't take long.
[December 7, 2005, 20:06]
Firefox Flaw Sparks A Fiery Debate
Talkback According to http://www.securityfocus.com/bid the Vendor Mozilla with Title FireFox of Version 1.0 scores 3 vulnerabilities whereas Vendor Microsoft with Title Internet Explorer of Version 6.0SP2 (which means you run Internet Explorer on XP with...
[January 7, 2005, 20:51]
Net Worm Hobbles Linux Servers
News Spitzner, Moldovanu and other security experts on SecurityFocus.com's Incidents mailing list detected the worm earlier this week when they noticed an increase in scans for two common flaws that plague the default installations of most Linux servers.
[January 18, 2001, 7:55]
T-Mobile: We Were Hacked
News The incident, first reported by online security information site SecurityFocus, came to light after 21-year-old Nicolas Jacobsen was charged with the crime. The SecurityFocus report also points to several pictures that have appeared on the Internet...
[January 13, 2005, 8:15]
Worms Find Fertile Ground In IM
News One of the interesting aspects of instant messaging viruses is most antivirus products don't necessarily stop them," said Elias Levy, chief technical officer of SecurityFocus.com. Something is wrong,'" Bates said in an IM exchange with CNET News...
[August 15, 2001, 9:12]
Code Red II: A Double Whammy
News Security information service SecurityFocus has posted an alert on the new bug, warning that it is potentially more damaging than the relatively benign original that infected hundreds of thousands of systems beginning on 11 July.
[August 7, 2001, 9:25]
Securing Good Security Workers
News Additionally, the company announced that it spent $375m to acquire three security firms: intrusion detection software maker Recourse Technologies, managed security firm Riptech, and vulnerability information firm SecurityFocus.
[August 22, 2002, 9:14]
CERT To Disclose Software Flaws
News One such person is Elias Levy, chief technology officer for industry information site SecurityFocus.com. On its mailing list, SecurityFocus regularly releases information and, sometimes, source code to illustrate the exploit.
[October 9, 2000, 8:38]
News Burst: Hospital Hacked, Patient Records Stolen
News A computer intruder broke into a Seattle area hospital and downloaded thousands of private medical records earlier this year, according to a report on SecurityFocus.com. But SecurityFocus editorial director Kevin Poulsen says the hacker showed him...
[December 7, 2000, 9:13]
Hospital Hacked - Records Stolen?
News A computer intruder broke into a Seattle-area hospital and downloaded thousands of private medical records earlier this year, according to security news Web site SecurityFocus.com. The break-in of University of Washington Medical Centre computers...
[December 7, 2000, 16:05]
Computer Prank Slips Past Security Experts
News A Trojan horse posing as a security tool did just that Wednesday night, when experts at SecurityFocus.com -- which moderates the popular Bugtraq security list -- sent the mildly malicious code to the list's 37,000 users.
[February 2, 2001, 8:55]
Anti-Sniff Software Inadequate - BugTraq
News Anti-probing software released by hacking group L0pht Industries on Friday has been attacked as inadequate by contributors to the well-respected security forum BugTraq at SecurityFocus.com One security expert from the Electronic Computer Science...
[July 27, 1999, 11:28]
BugTraq Tiff 'a Slippery Slope'?
News The fight pits the open atmosphere of an Internet mailing list with the proprietary tactics of two corporations that are well-known in the security field, said Elias Levy, chief technology officer of SecurityFocus.com and moderator of the BugTraq...
[December 14, 2000, 13:48]
Yahoo! News Hacked, Content Altered
News news of the hack was first reported and brought to the company's attention by SecurityFocus.com this week. s security lapses, according to the SecurityFocus report. For example, Lamo's altered story reported that the Russian hacker faced the death...
[September 21, 2001, 9:10]
Hole Found In Windows Media Player "skins"
News It is a high risk," said Elias Levy, chief technology officer for SecurityFocus.com. Security experts are warning of a high-risk security hole affecting Microsoft Windows Media Player 7 "skins", which are used to give the desktop application a...
[January 17, 2001, 9:51]
