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Major Financial Institution Protects Information Assets Through Regular Network Vulnerability Audits
White Papers After evaluating numerous vulnerability assessment solutions, Bank of the West selected QualysGuard. Protecting customer information ranks as a top priority for the bank's IT group. Bank of the West provides personal and business banking services...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Information Security: Vulnerability Scanning Requirements For GISRA
White Papers The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has demonstrated the efficacy of a broad-based, targeted vulnerability scanning and remediation program - for more than 80,000 computers in ten major facilities.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Hearing On Information Security - Vulnerability Management Strategies And Technology
White Papers Vulnerability management is a core security requirement. By successfully implementing a proactive, automated approach organizations can reduce risk and minimize their exposure to cyber threats. Industry and academia must work closely with...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Finding And Fixing Vulnerabilities In Information Systems: The Vulnerability Assessment & Mitigation Methodology
White Papers This paper is of interest to individuals or teams (either independent of or within the organization under study) involved in assessing and mitigating the risks and vulnerabilities of information systems critical to an organization's functions?
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
VPN Flaw Puts Internal Networks At Risk
News A security advisory posted by German security firm Phion Information Technologies to Internet mailing lists and the company's Web site said that the vulnerability affects the point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP) commonly used in the VPN...
[September 27, 2002, 7:31]
Linux Servers At Risk From 'serious' Flaw
News A vulnerability in the most widely used FTP server program for Linux has left numerous sites open to online attackers, a situation worsened when Red Hat mistakenly released information on the flaw early, leaving other Linux companies scrambling to...
[November 29, 2001, 8:36]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
News Firefox versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 contain the vulnerability, the security information company said in an advisory on Monday. Secunia has developed a test that allows people to see whether their system is affected by the vulnerability.
[April 6, 2005, 9:10]
My Privacy
Downloads My Privacy probes the confidential information stored on your computer on its vulnerability to unauthorized access by hackers. Analyze your privacy vulnerability. The software finds all personal information and suggests its unrestorable erasure.
[October 16, 2007, 22:01]
Think Vulnerabilities Only Happen In IE? Think Again
News Secunia has reported, and Mozilla has confirmed, an information disclosure vulnerability in the Firefox browser - including the latest update (version 1.0.2), which is only a few weeks old (released March 21).
[April 12, 2005, 13:35]
ISIS To Provide 'open Source' Security Information
News The Internetworked Security Information Service (ISIS) brings together four independent projects -- the Open Source Vulnerability Database, the Alldas.de defacement-tracking service, the PacketStorm software database and the vulnerability watchdog...
[August 5, 2002, 10:35]
Security Pros Develop Flaw Database
News The Internetworked Security Information Service (ISIS) brings together four independent projects -- the Open Source Vulnerability Database, the Alldas.de defacement-tracking service, the PacketStorm software database and the vulnerability watchdog...
[August 6, 2002, 8:04]
Security Clearinghouse Under The Gun
News We have tried to take a reasoned, middle-of-the-road approach to vulnerability information," Carpenter said. Most security researchers feel that responsible disclosure policy includes working with the affected software's creator to fix the...
[January 30, 2003, 8:05]
Vulnerability Assessment Guide
White Papers Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is a necessary part of an effective information security program. Software and/or services can determine the vulnerability of networks and hosts. VA includes design, development and review of security policies...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Microsoft Resolves To Open Security
News In the Security Vulnerability Research and Defense blog, security researchers at the software giant will give technical information about vulnerabilities fixed on "Patch Tuesday", Microsoft's monthly security patch cycle.
[January 2, 2008, 16:04]
Ethernet Security Leak Discovered
News Researchers from @stake have discovered a vulnerability that has been slowly bleeding sensitive data across networks for more than a decade. But after looking into it a bit further, I believe this is a serious vulnerability, mostly because it is...
[January 27, 2003, 12:03]
Spying Worms Likely To Proliferate
News Security experts have warned that vulnerability assessment worms, which assess computers for security flaws and relay the information back to the author, are likely to become more of a threat. James Kay, the chief technology officer of Blackspider...
[June 10, 2005, 16:10]
Veritas Patches Backup Flaw
News The vulnerability in question could let attackers gain remote access to information stored on backup servers. The problem with this vulnerability is it's not only running on all the desktops, but, even worse, if a malicious hacker gets into the...
[October 14, 2005, 10:45]
Falcove
Downloads MSSQL Penetration Module makes Falcove different from other Web Vulnerability Scanners in the Information Security area. By using Falcove Web Vulnerability Scanner and Penetration Tool 2 in 1, Web site owners can see whether their Web site(s) are...
[December 23, 2005, 23:01]
Experts: Let's Squash Software Bugs
News While he didn't support such tactics, Sachs underscored the seriousness of releasing vulnerability information before a patch has been created. While acknowledging that software makers continue to release buggy products, Richard Schaeffer, deputy...
[August 5, 2002, 9:32]
Apple Releases OS X Patches
News However, information on two of the vulnerabilities could be found at the Web site of the Common Vulnerability Encyclopedia, which is an attempt by Mitre, a systems engineering and information technology research organisation, to create a complete...
[April 7, 2004, 9:55]
