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RSS flaws compromiseAvoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms
White Paper These unintentional flaws create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity. Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers... [01 Oct 2009]
Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing
White Paper Typical techniques involve the exploitation of flaws in the software of web-based forums, photo galleries, shopping cart systems, and blogs. To reduce costs, and to avoid being traced, the criminals often... [01 Jul 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment But penetration tests have a lesser known benefit over and above remediating against flaws contained in applications themselves: they can be used to test the security knowledge and awareness of computer users so they... [22 Apr 2009]
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]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The vulnerabilities in indexing validation and array, record parsing, and credential caching could allow an attacker to compromise a system if the user opens a malicious Excel file. Microsoft has released six critical... [13 Aug 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Finance, government, legal, retail and utilities sectors have all seen an increase in the number of overall vulnerabilities according to NTA, with government being the only sector to suffer from all of the top 10 high risk... [19 Jun 2008]
Microsoft in a fix over cursor patch
News The cursor vulnerability is one of seven flaws addressed by Microsoft's Tuesday patch - three of them also affect Vista. Security company Websense has spotted hundreds of websites that try to use the bug to... [05 Apr 2007]
Apple issues OS X mega-patch
News Several of the flaws could be exploited to gain full control over a Mac running the vulnerable component, according to Apple's advisory. In earlier fix releases, Apple fixed several flaws identified... [14 Mar 2007]
Security warning over tech support tools
News Multiple flaws in commonly used technical support tools can open Windows PCs to cyber attack, security experts have warned. It said: "If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could potentially... [27 Feb 2007]
Cisco warns over pair of network flaws
News Cisco NAC Appliance, which checks external devices attempting to log on to a company network are compliant with security policy, contains two flaws that an attacker could use to gain control of the devices, or... [08 Jan 2007]
Windows worm holes plugged
News Microsoft has provided fixes for eight flaws related to Windows, including three that could be used to compromise a system without any user interaction. One alert, MS06-069, calls out... [15 Nov 2006]
Firefox 'zero-day flaw' fizzles out
News He pinned the claim that the hackers know of 30 yet-to-be-fixed flaws in Firefox entirely on his co-presenter, Wbeelsoi. In a statement provided to Mozilla, which co-ordinates development of Firefox, Spiegelmock said the... [04 Oct 2006]
Attackers 'making hay with Windows flaw'
News Some of these flaws are already being used in cyber attacks, though not as widespread as the Windows Shell flaw or another Windows bug for which Microsoft rushed out a fix on Tuesday, according to security experts. [02 Oct 2006]
Redmond working "non-stop" on IE patch
News Microsoft provides workarounds that protect against each of the IE flaws on its website. The last time the software maker rushed out a fix was in January, when another image-related flaw in IE was being used to... [26 Sep 2006]
Wi-fi hijack risk for Macs
News The other two flaws allow the same type of compromise but can also cause system crashes or, in one case, privilege escalation, it added. A trio of security flaws in Apple software that... [22 Sep 2006]
