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RSS flaws maliciousFive 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 Symantec senior research manager Ben Greenbaum noted that many of the vulnerabilities this month related to so-called ActiveX controls and added that many of the holes could be exploited just by getting a user to visit a Web page that... [12 Aug 2009]
Google fixes up Chrome flaw gruesome twosome
News Two serious security flaws have been plugged. One had allowed for malicious code exploitation within the Chrome tab sandbox. New versions of Google Chrome are out, fixing bugs and patching security holes... [20 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 more serious of... [09 Jul 2009]
An Analysis of Network Scanning Traffic as It Relates to Scan-Detection in Network Intrusion Detection Systems
White Paper Existing research by van Riel and Irwin has illustrated a number of flaws present in the open source systems Snort and Bro. This paper builds on this by describing current research at Rhodes University in which these... [20 Jun 2009]
iPhone 3.0 patches 46 security holes
News Similarly, certain flaws in the web-browsing framework WebKit could let an outsider run code if the device's owner visits a malicious website. The 46 flaws could allow an attacker to... [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 Software that could... [01 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]
Barclays cards make contact with RFID tech
News Researchers Ross Anderson, Saar Drimer and Murdoch published a paper on Thursday detailing security flaws in the Chip Authentication Programme (CAP) used for UK payments cards. Murdoch said that while security... [03 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.... [23 Dec 2008]
Microsoft patches critical IE flaw
News Microsoft released a critical security patch on Wednesday to plug vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, a move that comes amid malicious attackers taking advantage of the security flaws. The patch is... [18 Dec 2008]
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]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The arbitrary file download vulnerability in ActiveX could be exploited if the user visits a web page containing malicious code, Microsoft warned. The vulnerabilities in indexing validation and array, record parsing, and... [13 Aug 2008]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out potential security flaws. Last month StopBadware.org, a site sponsored by Google, found that Google itself was... [14 Jul 2008]
'Huge' Apple update plugs 40 Leopard security holes
News Currently at least 20,000 websites have been infected with code that exploits the flaws, which occur when Flash Player processes a malicious Shockwave Flash (SWF) file. The update, released this week,... [30 May 2008]
