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RSS holesAnti-Spyware Coalition Definitions Document
White Paper As users struggle to maintain control over their computers, many find themselves trapped in a cyclical battle against programs that install themselves without warning, open dangerous security holes and reinstall... [13 Nov 2009]
Consistency Verification of Stateful Firewalls Is Not Harder Than the Stateless Case
White Paper Unfortunately, due to the potentially large number of rules and their complex relationships with each other, the task of firewall configuration is notoriously error-prone, and in practice, firewalls are often misconfigured leaving... [12 Nov 2009]
McAfee Web Security Service Technical White Paper
White Paper The McAfee Web Security Service's accurate vulnerability scanning and reporting technology identifies the presence of security holes, including dangerous web application risks, and then provides the information one needs... [11 Nov 2009]
'You're responsible for your own wi-fi security' say ISPs
News Customers are responsible for their own wi-fi security, according to hotspot operators. BT Openzone, The Cloud and T-Mobile all recommended wi-fi users adopt VPNs to help protect themselves while using hotspots. [03 Nov 2009]
Adobe patches 28 flaws: Reader and Acrobat plugged
News See Adobe fixes 28 holes in Reader and Acrobat on CNET News.com for more on this story. Adobe has released a bulletin patching 28 vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. The release also includes a patch for... [14 Oct 2009]
First critical Windows 7 patches released
News See Windows 7 critical holes fixed in record Patch Tuesday on CNET News.com for more on the Microsoft updates. Microsoft has released the first critical update for Windows 7 on Patch Tuesday, featuring two patches for... [14 Oct 2009]
An Anatomy of a Web Hack: SQL Injection Explained
White Paper By using a security appliance such as WebDefend, along with beefing up security practices for web-accessible data, one can fill these holes in network security as well as provide for tailored web application-specific... [06 Oct 2009]
Should You Install Messaging Security Software on Your Exchange Server?
White Paper Many professionals are averse to this practice, thus allowing gaping holes in message security. Installing messaging security software directly on to your Exchange Server has been of source of contention for years. [01 Oct 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News Instead of hacking into major online sites to embed malware, malicious hackers are going in through the front door by exploiting security holes in systems for delivering ads. It happened just days ago to The New York... [16 Sep 2009]
Mozilla patches Firefox 3 critical holes
News Mozilla on Wednesday released two new versions of its browser, Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14, that patch three critical security holes and fix assorted other bugs. The updates can be found through the Help menu's Check for... [10 Sep 2009]
Preprocessing DNS Log Data for Effective Data Mining
White Paper Simple linear interpolation of the holes in the data does not preserve features such as peaks in traffic (which can occur during an attack, making them of particular interest). The Domain Name Service (DNS) provides a... [29 Aug 2009]
Google plugs two critical Chrome vulnerabilities
News Google has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the stable version of its Chrome browser that could have let an attacker remotely take over a person's computer. With one attack on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, malicious JavaScript... [26 Aug 2009]
Singularity University: Where today's tech titans teach the next generation
News After all, student projects like this are usually peppered with holes, naive assumptions, and unrealistic goals. Sitting in a classroom, listening to students explain their approach to an assignment to develop an... [21 Aug 2009]
Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News Microsoft on Tuesday released nine patches, five of them critical, to plug holes in Windows and other software products. Symantec senior research manager Ben Greenbaum noted that many of the vulnerabilities this month... [12 Aug 2009]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News If you're a criminal and you want to break into a network, a common attack method is to exploit a hole in software that exists on most computers, has its fair share of holes, and isn't automatically updated. [07 Aug 2009]
