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RSS hackers exploitWhat Hackers Know That You Don't: Web 2.0 Weaknesses and Opportunities
White Paper While most enterprise users focus on the utility of these applications - how they can enhance their lives and work - profit-driven hackers are finding innovative ways to exploit these new technologies to... [12 Nov 2009]
Network Security for Unified Communications Infrastructures
White Paper It is no secret that the internet is inundated with viruses, spam and malicious hackers seeking to exploit vulnerable infrastructures, so it is incumbent on companies to protect their customer... [02 Oct 2009]
The Gestalt Approach to IT Security Takes Shape
White Paper As hackers were joined by cybercriminals an economic motive to target personal data and create greater havoc materialized along with increased exploit sophistication. In fact, most of today's threats are... [30 Aug 2009]
Microsoft DirectX gets fix in Patch Tuesday
News Earlier this week, Microsoft warned of attacks being launched that exploit a hole in the Video ActiveX Control when used in Internet Explorer for recording and playing video in DirectShow. The ActiveX control... [10 Jul 2009]
Top IT Security Threats: How to Protect Your Users From Increasingly Sophisticated Attacks
White Paper Rather than targeting the network directly, hackers often exploit the most vulnerable part of the security ecosystem - the users. High-profile data breaches frequent the headlines, with countless smaller... [01 Jul 2009]
A More Secure Approach to Dynamic Web Threats
White Paper Often enough the vector used to exploit an unsuspecting user's vulnerabilities are not the usual infectious websites such as pornography sites, but increasingly are seemingly benign websites such as MySpace and YouTube,... [29 May 2009]
Why you should hack your own systems
Comment Penetration tests allow organisations to set up social engineering attacks, garnering information such as email addresses from vulnerable applications and using wizards and templates to do things such as create an email, associate it... [22 Apr 2009]
A More Secure Approach to Dynamic Web Threats - Frost & Sullivan
White Paper Often enough the vectors used to exploit an unsuspecting user's vulnerabilities are not what you may think. However, criminal hackers have cost businesses billions. Access to the Web is not an option... [18 Mar 2009]
Microsoft: IE at risk from security hole
News Microsoft's updated advisory lists a number of mitigating factors: Protected Mode in IE 7 and IE 8 in Windows Vista limits the impact of the vulnerability; IE on Windows Server 2003 and 2008 runs in a restricted mode known as Enhanced... [15 Dec 2008]
Search Engines Used to Attack Databases
White Paper The hacker then targets the vulnerable sites with attacks designed to exploit the specific holes discovered by the search engine. Over the last year or so, Hackers have begun to use search engines to... [03 Dec 2008]
Vista flaw leaves OS open to DoS attack
News Unterleitner told ZDNet UK via email that the "exploit can be used to turn off the computer using a [denial-of-service] attack". He also suggested that, because the exploit occurs in the Netio.sys... [24 Nov 2008]
Firefox extension to protect from wireless hacks
News Perspectives also protects against attacks that exploit a recently exposed flaw in the DNS system, which translates web addresses into numerical IP addresses, said Dave Andersen, a computer science professor at Carnegie... [27 Aug 2008]
Ubuntu patches flaw
News A local attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code as root, or crash the system, leading to a denial of service. Ubuntu became the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open-source operating... [26 Aug 2008]
RIM patches PDF security hole
News RIM announced the "highly critical" security advisory two weeks ago, detailing that a booby-trapped PDF could exploit a hole in RIM's server software to gain remote access to corporate networks. RIM has released a patch... [23 Jul 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack targetting Access
News Microsoft issued a security advisory on Monday warning about targeted attacks that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database-management system. An attacker would have... [08 Jul 2008]
