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ICQ Flaws Open PCs To Attack
News However, the risk associated to each vulnerabilities is highly dependent on the environment in which ICQ is being used," said Ivan Arce, chief technology officer for Core. Generally we don't make assumptions about risk in our advisories because we...
[May 6, 2003, 7:21]
NISCC Warns On Cisco IP Phone Flaw
News The flaw, which opens the IP phone service up to DoS attacks, was reported by the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre, the Government's cybersecurity group, in its warning, it gave the DNS protocol vulnerability, which also...
[May 25, 2005, 10:10]
RealPlayer And Helix Player In Linux Security Scare
News Popular media players RealPlayer and Helix Player are at risk of a security vulnerability that could let malicious attackers launch remote attacks on a user's system, security experts say. Attack code that takes advantage of the flaw, a so-called...
[September 28, 2005, 9:35]
Flaws In Common Software Threaten Net
News Among the surprises on the list: Networked medical equipment, such as imaging units and oscilloscopes, some uninterruptible power supplies, and digital cameras may also be at risk. The Oulu University group only studied version 1 of the protocol...
[February 13, 2002, 8:40]
UK Govt Finds Security Flaws In VoIP And Texting Technology
News While a malicious attacker could use the flaws to disrupt VoIP networks, companies using Microsoft's Small Business Server 2000 and 2003 are at particular risk. Also on Tuesday, Cisco Systems published an extensive advisory outlining which of its...
[January 14, 2004, 7:30]
Microsoft Plays Down IE Flaw
News Microsoft has given more details on an Internet Explorer (IE) security bug discovered this week, saying the flaw puts only some systems at risk. The research group rates the issue "critical", its most serious classification, in its advisory.
[August 22, 2005, 9:25]
UK Firms Warn Of Increasing Spam Burden
News It looks as if the amount of spam hitting UK businesses is set to rise and is therefore likely to feature higher on the security risk agenda in the future. The report was conducted by a group led by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
[April 1, 2004, 17:20]
Library Flaw Puts Applications At Risk
News A security flaw in a widely-used data compression technology could put many software programs at risk of attack, experts have warned. Secunia rates the problem "highly critical", one notch below its highest risk rating, because there is no known...
[July 8, 2005, 9:15]
Windows Attack Code Released
News Worm risk The two flaws are covered by Microsoft alert MS06-066, which deals with issues that could put Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems at risk from worms. Somebody could write a piece of code that targets Windows 2000, and that replicates...
[November 17, 2006, 9:29]
Microsoft Admits Office 2003 'mistake'
News He wrote on Friday in his blog: "We noticed that attackers seemed to be preferentially hitting the parsers for the older formats, and if the great majority of you don't need the older format, it's risk without reward.
[January 7, 2008, 12:14]
Desktop Linux Wins Powerful Supporters
News And he said Linux can provide a way around "vendor lock-in" -- the risk that a customer is beholden to a particular company once the company buys its products. And the Open Source Development Lab, which so far has concentrated on Linux for the data...
[November 12, 2003, 7:45]
Bringing Law To The Security Jungle
News In addition to letting companies add their own environmental metric to the risk equation, CVSS also takes into account factors such as the availability of attack code and security patches, which can have an impact on the risk posed by a...
[September 19, 2005, 9:10]
Linux Users Warned Over GNOME Attack
News Another flaw in a popular code library for handling an open-source image format, known as Portable Network Graphics, put computers running Linux, Windows and Mac OS X at risk. Several flaws in common Linux code used to process graphics in the GNOME...
[December 9, 2004, 8:35]
Best Practices For Network Security
News Security teams must model overall investment to track parity with industry peers and account for the cost of satisfying compliance requirements for managing information risk," says Tom Scholtz, vice-president with Meta's Security & Risk Strategies...
[March 30, 2005, 12:00]
Experts Highlight Six Key Technologies To Watch
News The final two areas are both seen as high risk by the CST — due to their relatively unproven track record — but with potentially high rewards. The UK should focus on six key technologies over the next five years, according to an independent...
[December 5, 2007, 14:52]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
News While the flaw is only rated as "moderately critical" by Secunia, the rapid adoption of the open source browser means that many users may be at risk. Firefox versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 contain the vulnerability, the security information company said...
[April 6, 2005, 9:10]
Experts Warn Of JPEG-based Virus Attack
News Microsoft does not consider this a high risk to customers given the amount of user action required to execute the attack and is not currently aware of any significant customer impact," the software giant said in a statement.
[September 29, 2004, 8:55]
Ethical Hackers Get Industry Association
News Penetration testing is a widely accepted method of assuring information security and has become an integral part of many organisations' operational and technology risk management programs," said Crest chair Paul Docherty.
[April 24, 2008, 11:09]
US President Taps Insider For Tech Post
News He's an entrepreneur, a risk taker," Bush said. When he formed his Technology Advisory Council during the presidential campaign, Bush said he would turn frequently to members such as Cisco chief executive John Chambers on technology issues.
[March 29, 2001, 9:51]
Most IT Contractors 'distort' Job Applications
News Tough economic conditions are driving IT contractors to lie on their job applications, according to research by The Risk Advisory Group (TRAG). During 2002, the company screened 2,700 job applications across a range of sectors.
[April 24, 2003, 12:03]
