flaws hackers
RSS flaws hackersOutsmarting Tomorrow's Hackers Today
White Paper Network IDS/IPS and first-generation Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) don't protect against today's sophisticated web application threats, such as cross-site scripting, injection flaws and other vulnerabilities listed on... [01 Oct 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]
Apply Visual Studio Code Analysis to Beef Up Security
White Paper Source code reviews and inspections have long been considered economical methods for rooting out functional and design flaws in code even before applications make their way to testing. As security has grown in... [22 Dec 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]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X customers being "owned" by basic actions such as visiting a malicious website, watching a video file or opening an email attachment. [12 Jul 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 29.06.07
Round-Up Among the concerns raised by official independent election observers from the Open Rights Group (ORG) were fears that flaws in systems already used could allow hackers to steal authentication details,... [29 Jun 2007]
US Homeland Security CIO blamed for security "incidents"
News In response to reports of persistent cybersecurity flaws at the Department of Homeland Security, a top congressional Democrat on Wednesday questioned whether the agency's chief information officer deserves to keep his job. [21 Jun 2007]
Apple plugs 25 holes in OS X
News Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X that addresses 25 security flaws in the operating system software. While several of the vulnerabilities repaired by Apple's updates were previously known, it doesn't appear... [20 Apr 2007]
Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows flaw
News At the same time security experts have issued warnings on multiple zero-day flaws in Office and another one in Windows. Cyber crooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain Windows versions to attack... [13 Apr 2007]
Office at risk from bug trio
News A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in Microsoft Office has surfaced, according to security researchers at McAfee. All but one of the flaws results in denial of service, meaning the... [11 Apr 2007]
Windows has fewest security holes
News Microsoft Windows has the lowest number of vulnerabilities and the fastest turnaround time for patches of all commercial operating systems - but it also has the most serious flaws, according to Symantec. [23 Mar 2007]
Holes found in Google Desktop
News Several flaws in the popular Google Desktop software could open PCs up to intruders and possible data theft, a security company has warned. Hackers could use cross-site scripting to manipulate Google... [22 Feb 2007]
Alert over Spybot worm
News Additionally, the bot program tries to exploit five flaws in Microsoft Windows, the most recent of which was patched in August and affects Windows file and printer sharing. Additionally, hackers often... [30 Nov 2006]
Apple plugs 31 holes in OS X
News Apple's Security Update 2006-007 includes fixes for flaws in Apple's own code as well as third-party components that ship with the Mac OS X operating system, such as OpenSSL, Perl and PHP. However, Apple's update does... [29 Nov 2006]
