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RSS security flawVirtual worlds under siege from cyber crime
News A virtual illness wiped out entire servers of users in World of Warcraft in 2005 when a design flaw allowed the disease to spread throughout low level players. Virtual worlds are playgrounds not just for people who want... [28 Aug 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie... [27 Aug 2008]
OpenID at risk due to DNS flaw, claims researcher
News Robin Wilton, a corporate architect for federated identity at Sun, described OpenID's reliance on the integrity of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a "multi-factor problem" in light of the discovery of a fundamental flaw... [14 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Versions of Office are affected by this flaw, including Office XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), and Office 2003 SP2 and SP3. The vulnerabilities, as detailed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-045, relate to... [13 Aug 2008]
Apple releases patch for critical flaw
News Apple released a security update yesterday to users of its Tiger and Leopard operating systems to address a critical Domain Name System flaw, along with a dozen other updates. The DNS... [01 Aug 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News RIM has released a patch for a security flaw in BlackBerry Enterprise Server, which exposed corporate networks to hackers via a maliciously crafted PDF document. The flaw did not expose... [23 Jul 2008]
RIM warns on BlackBerry PDF flaw
News RIM is warning businesses to disable the function that allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until an update can be issued, after a security flaw was found in the company's software. According to Sense... [17 Jul 2008]
Securing Wireless Networks
White Paper While all of these are in common use throughout the world, they all suffer from the same basic security flaw: they use radio frequency (RF) technology to transmit their information. This white paper... [03 Jul 2008]
Important Information for IIS 4.0 Server Administrators Regarding the "Code Red" Worm
White Paper Some reports claim that the situation occurs because of a flaw in the patch we provided in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-033. The patch completely eliminates the vulnerability discussed in the... [03 Jul 2008]
Cumulative VM Update - Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-013
White Paper The first vulnerability is the result of a flaw affecting how Java requests for proxy resources are handled. A malicious Java applet could exploit this flaw to re-direct web traffic once it has left the... [03 Jul 2008]
The Ten Immutable Laws of Security
White Paper In some cases, we find that a report describes a bona fide security vulnerability resulting from a flaw in one of our products; when this happens, we develop a patch as quickly as possible to correct the... [03 Jul 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Open Secure Shell (SSH) buffer management flaw below version 3.7.1: Some SSH servers are running a version of OpenSSH which is known to be vulnerable to a buffer management vulnerability that can allow attackers to stop... [19 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment Get a clue.if there is an inherent flaw it affects all wi-fi-enabled devices. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO,... [19 Jun 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Asked about a privacy and security flaw that had been identified in Facebook's mobile variant last year - in which the user's contacts had their email addresses listed, regardless of whether those... [23 Apr 2008]
Apple patches up Safari
News The company released the patches this week after a number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser recently, including one which allowed a security expert to take control of a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest... [18 Apr 2008]
