administrators vulnerability
Microsoft issues advisory for IIS flaw
News In a posting on Monday, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) suggested IT administrators "disable anonymous write access to the FTP server to help mitigate the vulnerability" but added that... [02 Sep 2009]
Microsoft IIS 'at risk from FTP flaw'
News In a posting on Monday, the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) suggested IT administrators "disable anonymous write access to the FTP server to help mitigate the vulnerability" but added that... [01 Sep 2009]
McAfee Vulnerability Manager Remediates System Vulnerabilities and Mitigates Risks at CSU, Chico
White Paper CSU, Chico needed a comprehensive enterprise vulnerability management system that could be managed primarily by its 75 departmental server administrators - many of whom are not IT professionals. At... [01 Sep 2009]
Linux flaw bypasses security
News According to the researcher, the code exploits a vulnerability in Linux version 2.6.30, and 2.6.18, and affects both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The compiler will introduce the vulnerability to the... [21 Jul 2009]
Mozilla unearths critical Firefox 3.5 Just-in-time hole
News There is a critical JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox 3.5 web browser, Mozilla has warned. Proof-of-concept code to exploit the vulnerability has been posted online by a security research group,... [16 Jul 2009]
Socket Hijacking
White Paper This white paper discusses the socket hijacking vulnerability on Windows, the impact of the vulnerability and what it takes to successfully exploit the vulnerability. It also reviews... [11 Jun 2009]
An Introduction to Intrusion Detection and Assessment
White Paper Vulnerability-assessment tools check systems and networks for system problems and configuration errors that represent security vulnerabilities. Both intrusion-detection and vulnerability-assessment... [02 Sep 2008]
Ubuntu patches flaw
News Ubuntu became the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating system's kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to find their way into users' machines. Ubuntu... [26 Aug 2008]
Network horror stories expose need for understanding
Comment Another sacked employee, this time within the healthcare sector, used a similar vulnerability after his termination to launch a Trojan and wipe files and back-ups from company hard drives. Ian Cummins, European sales... [12 Apr 2007]
It's a cracker: Blog software breached
News The vulnerability could allow an attacker access to the server running the blogging software. WordPress has additional tips for web hosters and network administrators. An unknown intruder has compromised... [07 Mar 2007]
Introduction to Intrusion Detection With Snort
White Paper As soon as someone discovers a new computer security vulnerability, hordes of crackers start knocking at the doors of computers worldwide to see if they can penetrate their defenses. Many sites employ a combination of... [01 Nov 2006]
Northern Europe's Leading Emergency Hospital Secures Patient Care With TippingPoint's Intrusion Prevention System
White Paper Several years ago, the Nimda virus struck the facility's network, forcing the hospital to confront the vulnerability of its life-saving medical services to on-line threats. To safeguard its operations, hospital... [20 Oct 2006]
Glitch mars Microsoft patch batch
News Antivirus company Symantec said the updates include patches for Office flaws for which exploit code already exists, including an Excel vulnerability that surfaced in July and a Word exploit that emerged last month. [11 Oct 2006]
"Critical" Office update on the way
News The vulnerability can be exploited by the user opening a malicious document. And in July, an Excel vulnerability was the target of a zero-day attack. The brief advisory is designed to give IT... [08 Sep 2006]
Microsoft issues largest patch batch to date
News Amol Sarwate, the manager of the Vulnerability Management Lab at flaw management specialist Qualys, said: "There has never been a Microsoft security update to address 21 issues and never one with 19 potential remote... [14 Jun 2006]
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