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News Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration attempts and application flaw exploits, and more specific threats such as phishing attacks against users, in the form of forged emails purporting...
[23 Apr 2008]
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 security conference in March...
[18 Apr 2008]
Comment Critics pointed to the lack of Exchange support as a major flaw with the iPhone, yet this has been resolved through a deal with Microsoft. On the 10th anniversary of his Damascene conversion from the PC to the way of the Mac, Seb Janacek reflects...
[17 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Although many contributing factors intervene, such as changing priorities and cultural issues, one consistently recurring flaw is the misapplication or lack of information key to implementing effectual performance management.
[03 Apr 2008]
whitepaper the ill known yet largely handicapping and critical security flaw still remains omnipresent on a majority of networks, allowing direct access for data leakage, user lockout, workstation downtime. This paper reviews how Microsoft LimitLogin and IS...
[28 Feb 2008]
News Researchers have shown how exploiting a flaw within QuickTime could allow an attacker could steal from other users in Second Life. In this case, researchers exploited a recent flaw within RTSP tunnelling.
[18 Feb 2008]
News Mozilla has assigned a "low" severity rating to the flaw, and the vulnerability is being investigated by Firefox developers. Meanwhile, Mozilla's head of security, Window Snyder, has warned of a flaw in Firefox's user interface, called "chrome".
[25 Jan 2008]
whitepaper However through a series of tests, it was found that STP does not fulfill its claims of increased throughput over TCP and uncovered a flaw in STP's founding research. With a new United States Army initiative to exploit commercially developed...
[14 Jan 2008]
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]
whitepaper 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
whitepaper 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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