flaws attacks
RSS flaws attacksDDoS Protection Service: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
White Paper Usually, in this type of attack, an attempt is made to cause the attacked systems to crash by exploiting vulnerabilities in operating systems, programs and services or basic design flaws in the network protocols in use... [02 Oct 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News McAfee Avert Labs director Dave Marcus said two of the flaws, in particular, relate to serious security vulnerabilities in the networking components of Window Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003 that could... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News At the time, Microsoft said it was already seeing attacks based on the flaw, which affects Office XP, Office 2003, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 and 2006, as well as Office Small Business Accounting 2006. [12 Aug 2009]
Oracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News Oracle has released fixes for 33 security flaws that affect hundreds of products across its range. Both of the flaws are remotely exploitable, do not require authentication and could allow an attacker to... [16 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0 patches 46 security holes
News The 46 flaws could allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions, shut down an application, disclose sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, or... [19 Jun 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment Considering the large number of vulnerabilities that are found in web-based applications, it is of great importance that security is built into applications early on in the software development lifecycle - and that they are tested... [22 Apr 2009]
Hackers get cracking on unpatched PowerPoint flaw
News Microsoft's last major PowerPoint patch, which came out in August 2008, addressed three critical flaws in the software. Hackers have launched attacks targeting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft PowerPoint,... [03 Apr 2009]
Web Application Security: Too costly to ignore
White Paper The number of web attacks is on the rise and is exponentially more cost effective to remedy those flaws early in the development process. Web application security is crucial to mitigating the risks of... [18 Mar 2009]
Bluetooth Security
White Paper Then it points out flaws and possible security holes in the Bluetooth Security Specification. It uses radio waves to transfer information, so it is very susceptible to attacks. Bluetooth is a way of... [16 Mar 2009]
SQL Server vulnerability warning from Microsoft
News The advisory comes less than a week after Microsoft released a critical security patch to plug vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer amid malicious attackers taking advantage of the security flaws. Currently, Microsoft is... [23 Dec 2008]
Analyzing and Preventing MAC-Layer Denial of Service Attacks for Stock 802.11 Systems
White Paper Leveraging security flaws in the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol and the salient features of a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET), even an average person with limited knowledge of wireless networks can launch MAC-layer Denial of... [14 Oct 2008]
Instrumentation of Open-Source Software for Intrusion Detection
White Paper These attacks attempt to take advantage of inadvertent flaws left in software systems due to a lack of complete testing, inexperienced developers, intentional backdoors into the system, and other reasons. [03 Jul 2008]
'Huge' Apple update plugs 40 Leopard security holes
News The update, released this week, plugs flaws that render OS X Leopard users vulnerable to systems compromises including denial-of-service attacks, information disclosure and remote code execution.... [30 May 2008]
Observations on the Message Integrity Code in IEEE802.11 Wireless LANs
White Paper To address the security flaws of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the IEEE802.11i draft defines two data confidentiality and integrity protocols, Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and Counter-Mode-CBC-MAC Protocol... [12 Jan 2008]
Banks warned over IT security flaws
News The number of security flaws within financial institutions' IT systems is growing fast, due in part to customer demand for internet services.silicon.com Financial Services While this extra accessibility is of benefit to... [14 Jun 2007]
