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White Paper Being a fast-growing Internet application, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) shares the network resources with the regular Internet traffic, and is susceptible to the existing security holes of the Internet. [06 Jul 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Of this year's top 10 vulnerabilities, seven were found in last year's report and all are associated with services being made available to internet users. Internet Information Servers internet printing protocol is enabled: Enables print jobs to be... [19 Jun 2008]
Change-Impact Analysis of Firewall Policies
White Paper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic... [16 Apr 2008]
Formal Verification of Firewall Policies
White Paper A firewall policy error either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not tragic... [16 Apr 2008]
Diverse Firewall Design
White Paper An error in a firewall policy either creates security holes that will allow malicious traffic to sneak into a private network or blocks legitimate traffic and disrupts normal business processes, which in turn could lead to irreparable, if not... [16 Apr 2008]
Windows-based cash machines 'easily hacked'
News He said it is important for banks to be able to monitor ATM systems at the Windows level for any security holes and to be able to shut the network down in a controlled manner if any problems arise. ATMs today face the internet-born threat of worms... [04 Mar 2008]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Most people are familiar with the dangers they pose, yet millions continue to succumb to attacks that exploit unpatched holes in common platforms such as Windows or Java. One of the most successful of this generation was the so-called Love Bug... [19 Nov 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Chinese whispers
Comment It would be very surprising if we found that any country that has sufficient resources is not attempting to poke holes into other countries' security. Faulty toys are one thing but in recent weeks the Chinese have been cast as a dire threat to our... [25 Oct 2007]
Is social networking a threat to your security?
News Murtagh blamed "smaller IT budgets and fewer technical staff" for punching holes in SMEs' internet security systems but also emphasised the data-theft risk resulting from companies' failure to control the use of peer-to-peer applications or to... [23 Jul 2007]
Virtualization Techniques for Embedded Systems
White Paper They have huge amount of source codes, interact with the internet, download and install applications from external, which incur the increase of bugs and security holes. Like existing commodity computer systems, embedded systems are no more small... [01 Apr 2007]
Windows at risk from fancy cursors
News Such holes are often exploited by cyber crooks to do "drive-by" installations of malicious software. The exposure to attacks that exploit the flaw is mitigated on Vista machines with Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft noted. [30 Mar 2007]
Windows has fewest security holes
News Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report reveals 39 security holes were discovered in Windows during the second half of 2006, with an average patch development turnaround time of 21 days, up from the 22 Windows holes found in the first... [23 Mar 2007]
Dot-gov safest domain around, says McAfee
News These country domains are also the most likely to host sites that silently try to exploit security holes in web browsers to install malicious programs, so-called drive-by downloads, it said. The safest websites on the internet end in dot-gov... [13 Mar 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment Some of its characteristics also leave it vulnerable to hackers, such as using text for encoding and SIP extensions that can create security holes. A US fraud case in 2006 heard how hackers broke into VoIP service providers' systems using the... [09 Mar 2007]
Microsoft probing holes in Vista, IE 7
News Microsoft is investigating two recently disclosed security vulnerabilities that affect Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista. The vulnerabilities aren't considered high-risk, yet they affect the latest releases of Microsoft's web browser and... [27 Feb 2007]
