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Google fixes up Chrome flaw gruesome twosome
News Two serious security flaws have been plugged. New versions of Google Chrome are out, fixing bugs and patching security holes in both the stable build and the beta build. One had allowed for malicious... [20 Jul 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]
Apple goes on a security Safari with browser patches
News Independent security vendor Secunia gave the flaws addressed by the update a "highly critical" ranking. Both of the flaws affect WebKit, the open source layout engine used in Safari. The... [09 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 take over the... [19 Jun 2009]
RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server hit by critical bugs
News RIM did not give details of the flaws but said they could be exploited via a specially crafted PDF file. RIM has warned of critical bugs in its BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry Professional... [01 Jun 2009]
Avoiding the EPIC FAIL: Improving Software Development Success With ActivePerl
White Paper It's a clean slate, free from architectural flaws, bugs, and broken code. It is easy to sympathize with software developers trying to build large, complex enterprise software solutions. At the start, a... [14 May 2009]
Web Application Security Testing With the Security Center and Nessus
White Paper The detection of Application-layer flaws within HTTP applications has become a major source of activity for many enterprise security groups. Many of these efforts to detect application bugs within web... [06 Feb 2009]
Damage Control for Network Applications
White Paper With code complexity increasing by the minute, all are forced to accept that software contains bugs, flaws, some of which can be exploited for malicious purposes. For all systems, one of the most... [01 Oct 2008]
Does open source pose a security risk?
News Independent software vendors (ISVs) selling proprietary software have claimed the open-source development process exposes open-source software to greater security risks, while open-source developers argue that the openness of the process... [22 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth, who runs Ubuntu's commercial arm, Canonical, said most users expect developers of open-source distributions to fix bugs affecting the operating systems, even if the flaws were introduced in... [01 Jul 2008]
'Fundamental' flaws in Child Support Agency IT
News For years, bugs in CS2 have prevented the transfer of cases from the old system and thousands of cases required manual intervention to unlock them after becoming "stuck". It has emerged the Child Support Agency's (CSA)... [04 Mar 2008]
Betfair fortifies its software code
Case Study Betfair introduced the Fortify Source Code Analysis (SCA) tool at the beginning of the year to identify, manage and fix any software security flaws. Betfair has rolled out a source code analysis tool to free up its... [20 Nov 2007]
iPhone gets first update
News Each download contains several patches to correct flaws, and Apple is recommending that all users of those operating systems download the updates. It corrects a few flaws in Safari as well as in Webcore... [01 Aug 2007]
Bugs found in Apple's Safari for Windows
News David Maynor - one of the researchers who controversially claimed to have found security flaws in Apple's AirPort wi-fi driver last year - wrote in his blog on Monday that "an afternoon of idle fuzzing [testing software... [13 Jun 2007]
A Systematic Approach to Uncover Security Flaws in GUI Logic
White Paper GUI logic flaws are category of software vulnerabilities that result from logic bugs in GUI design/implementation. Visual spoofing attacks that exploit these flaws can lure even... [23 May 2007]