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RSS attack exploitSecond iPhone worm: A botnet risk
News Like the first worm - unearthed last month - to attack iPhones, this latest exploit also affects jailbroken devices with SSH (secure shell) protocol-enabled and unchanged default passwords. A second... [24 Nov 2009]
The New Threat: Attacks That Target Healthcare (and What You Can Do About It)
White Paper Armed with sophisticated tools, attackers exploit countless software vulnerabilities that exist in the multitude of systems a provider relies upon, including web-based applications such EHR/EMR systems. [13 Nov 2009]
A Closer Look at Wireless Intrusion Detection: How to Benefit From a Hybrid Deployment Model
White Paper As wireless enterprise networks become more pervasive, increasingly sophisticated attacks are developed to exploit these networks. These systems can offer sophisticated monitoring and reporting capabilities to identify... [12 Nov 2009]
Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the ActionScript Virtual Machine
White Paper Memory corruption vulnerabilities are becoming increasingly difficult to exploit, largely due to the protection mechanisms being integrated into most modern operating systems. Learning how this attack... [02 Oct 2009]
A Survey on MANET Intrusion Detection
White Paper As a result, attacks with malicious intent have been and will be devised to exploit these vulnerabilities and to cripple the MANET operation. Attack prevention measures, such as authentication and... [11 Sep 2009]
Intelligent and Effective Heart Attack Prediction System Using Data Mining and Artificial Neural Network
White Paper Thus the attempt to exploit knowledge and experience of several specialists and clinical screening data of patients composed in databases to assist the diagnosis procedure is regarded as a valuable option. [29 Aug 2009]
Cisco wireless LAN: At risk from 'skyjack' attack
News Researchers at AirMagnet, which makes intrusion-detection systems for WLANs, discovered the vulnerability, which affects all lightweight Cisco wireless access points, as well as the exploit that could be used against... [25 Aug 2009]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News If you're a criminal and you want to break into a network, a common attack method is to exploit a hole in software that exists on most computers, has its fair share of holes, and isn't automatically... [07 Aug 2009]
Apple plugs iPhone SMS flaw
News Researchers Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner said at the Black Hat security conference that an attacker could use the SMS exploit to make calls, swipe data and send text messages. The attack was... [03 Aug 2009]
'Hack your own Oracle database' tool unveiled next week
News Gates is a member of the Metasploit project, an open source platform used for developing, testing, and using exploit code and sharing information related to finding vulnerabilities. If administrators haven't applied the... [24 Jul 2009]
Adobe probes Flash zero day bug after exploit found
News The authors of the exploit have managed to take a bug and turn it into a reliable exploit using a heap spray technique," Patrick Fitzgerald writes on a Symantec Security blog post. Once the unsuspecting... [23 Jul 2009]
Mozilla unearths critical Firefox 3.5 Just-in-time hole
News Proof-of-concept code to exploit the vulnerability has been posted online by a security research group, Mozilla said in a post on its security blog on Wednesday. That means an attacker may be able to execute malicious... [16 Jul 2009]
Oracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News Authentication is needed to exploit the bug, but a successful attack could result in complete control of a database, Oracle said. Due to the threat posed by a successful attack, Oracle... [16 Jul 2009]
Critical ActiveX Office hole under attack, warns Microsoft
News Antivirus vendor Sophos, meanwhile, said in a blog posting on its site that it had received reports of several websites, mostly in China, serving the exploit as part of a web exploit kit that downloads... [14 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News They do what they need to get the job done.if they can use a five-year-old exploit in conjunction with an exploit that they paid a programmer in another country $60,000 to [write], they will do it.... [13 Jul 2009]
