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Corporations riddled with security holes
News Some OpenSSL versions are known to contain several vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to carry out a denial of service attack or execute arbitrary code on web servers. Successful exploitation of this issue... [19 Jun 2008]
Penetration Testing: Assessing Your Overall Security Before Attackers Do
White Paper Replicate the types of actions that a malicious attacker would take The only way to really determine if your company's data is secure is to be a hacker yourself and test your company's security. Network... [29 Jun 2007]
Apple plugs 25 holes in OS X
News The most serious of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain complete control over an unpatched Mac, Apple said in a security advisory. A successful hack wins the hacker the MacBook and a... [20 Apr 2007]
IE lets attackers hijack network traffic
News As a result, an attacker with access to a network, for example, at a corporation could insert a malicious proxy and see all the traffic, the researchers said. An attacker can set up that "detour sign"... [26 Mar 2007]
Apple plugs yet more QuickTimes holes
News In all cases, an attacker could craft a malicious file which, when opened with QuickTime, could give the miscreant full control over a computer running the software, it said. With operating systems becoming more secure,... [06 Mar 2007]
Adobe PDF flaw 'more serious than first thought'
News While risky, this actually limits the attacker's access to a PC. Depending on the browser, this means the JavaScript can read the user's files, delete them, execute programs, send the contents to the... [05 Jan 2007]
Microsoft points to early Vista flaw
News Initial indications are that in order for the attack to be successful, the attacker must already have authenticated access to the target system," wrote Reavey. Mike Reavey, operations manager at Microsoft's Security... [28 Dec 2006]
Passwords at risk from Firefox, IE flaw
News The data is then automatically sent to an attacker's computer without the user's knowledge, according to the Chapin Information Services (CIS) site. The CIS site said: "These attacks could be highly effective against... [23 Nov 2006]
Windows worm holes plugged
News Three of the security holes could be exploited remotely by an anonymous attacker without the user having to take any action, such as clicking on a link. Microsoft said in its security bulletin, which it rates "critical":... [15 Nov 2006]
Firefox 'zero-day flaw' fizzles out
News An attacker could commandeer a computer running the open source web browser simply by crafting a web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, they said. A hacker who claimed to have found a... [04 Oct 2006]
"Impossible to patch": Hackers unearth Firefox hole
News An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon... [02 Oct 2006]
Trojan sinks its teeth into BlackBerry
News At the Defcon hacker confab on Saturday, researcher Jesse D'Aguanno said he developed a program called BBProxy that, when running on a BlackBerry, gives an attacker entry to the network the wireless... [09 Aug 2006]
Mac OS X hacked in less than half an hour
News On 22 February, a Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set his Mac Mini as a server and invited hackers to break through the computer's security and gain root control, which would allow the attacker to take charge of the computer... [07 Mar 2006]
Hackers find security hole in wireless Windows
News The danger arises if an attacker listens for computers that are broadcasting in this way, and creates a network connection of their own with that same SSID. This would allow the two machines to associate together,... [17 Jan 2006]
Hacker hidey-hole found in Symantec product
News The security giant said: "This could potentially provide a location for an attacker to hide a malicious file on a computer," adding it is not aware of any attempts by hackers to conceal malicious code in the folder. [12 Jan 2006]
