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Comment The basic flaw in this argument is the presumption that the use of IT and the internet improves academic attainment. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are... [10 Jan 2008]
Target-Based TCP Stream Reassembly
White Paper This flaw exists in several layers of evaluation and processing of the packets including the IP, TCP, and application layers. In their landmark 1998 paper, "Insertion, Evasion, and Denial of Service: Eluding Network Intrusion Detection," Thomas... [26 Dec 2007]
Apple's Tiger and Leopard get patched up
News Apple updated QuickTime last week in order to fix an important flaw in that program. It's download time again for Mac OS X users, as 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard have been made available by Apple. [18 Dec 2007]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Robot chatters are just one type of social-engineering attack that uses trickery rather than a software flaw to access victim's valuable information. A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its... [10 Dec 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure
Comment One obvious flaw in the parallel Gartner draws with hardware is the humble but essential PC. Hardware prices may have fallen over the years but software costs have always headed in the opposite direction. [22 Nov 2007]
Phishers snare Salesforce.com data
News To be clear, a phisher tricked someone into disclosing a password but this intrusion did not stem from a security flaw in our application or database. Details of Salesforce.com's customers were stolen as a result of the password being surrended... [08 Nov 2007]
Avoiding the next Northern Rock
Comment This worked for a while but the fatal flaw was the assumption that limitless liquidity would be available in the markets, at cheap rates indefinitely. The banking and finance sector can take months to spot that things are going wrong. [15 Oct 2007]
eBay Hacks: Withhold Feedback
White Paper The biggest flaw (and in some ways, the biggest strength) of eBay's feedback system is the risk of retaliation. One leaves negative or neutral feedback for someone, and they will - without considering the circumstances or who's at fault - do the same. [10 Oct 2007]
Gmail cookie flaw 'puts email at risk'
News Petko Petkov of ethical hacking group GNUCitizen has developed a proof-of-concept program to steal contacts and incoming emails from Google Gmail users. Pure Hacking security researcher Chris Gatford said: "This can be used to forward all your... [27 Sep 2007]
Escape the data management minefield
Comment And this flaw wasn't caused by an errant employee with a grudge or a hacker on a mission. The public sector's data management is looking increasingly like Swiss cheese - full of holes. Paul Bentham explains how this is not just about malicious... [13 Sep 2007]
Hacking a Mac 'just works', says researcher
News A flaw in any one of these could be easily exploited over the web. Miller said his formula for finding a zero-day flaw on a Mac is this: "Find an open source package that they use that's out of date - there's, like I said, plenty of those. [14 Aug 2007]
Microsoft to patch critical trio
News The sixth patch is for a "moderate" Windows Vista flaw. Microsoft will fix three critical security holes, and three other flaws, in tomorrow's scheduled patch release. The critical holes, all of which could allow a hacker to execute code remotely... [09 Jul 2007]
Microsoft patches 'the class of 2007'
News Last month's Microsoft patches included a fix for a zero-day flaw in Windows that also affected Vista. This includes an expected patch for a flaw in the Windows domain name system, or DNS. The Word flaw had also been used in cyber attacks, it said. [09 May 2007]
Microsoft primes DNS fix for Patch Tuesday
News Microsoft is planning to release seven security bulletins on Tuesday, including a fix for a zero-day flaw in Windows that is already being used in cyber attacks. The bulletins, part of Microsoft's monthly patch cycle, are slated to provide fixes... [04 May 2007]
Apple fixes 'hack-a-Mac hole'
News Apple has released a QuickTime update to fix a security flaw that was used to breach a MacBook Pro at a recent security conference. Security monitoring company Secunia deems the flaw "highly critical", one notch below its most serious rating. [02 May 2007]
