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News However, modifying the URL runs a script which attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in various applications, including AOL, Microsoft Internet Explorer, MySpace and RealNetworks RealPlayer. Thakur noted that third-party applications rather than...
[07 May 2008]
News He said: "I think that the fact that businesses depend on applications to make them successful, but they're also the biggest weaknesses because of the vulnerabilities that we have in applications. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London...
[24 Apr 2008]
News The company released the patches this week after a number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser recently, including one which allowed a security expert to take control of a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference in March...
[18 Apr 2008]
News Infrastructure vulnerabilities introduced through misconfiguration should be a concern for IT professionals, according to Herrod. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer for VMware, who was also speaking at the RSA Conference, claimed...
[16 Apr 2008]
News Samar said the use of code-scanning technology to detect problems and the separation of approval roles so code is checked a number of times could iron out these vulnerabilities. Malicious Malfoy is the external hacker who exploits security...
[10 Apr 2008]
News Google also uses a neighbourhood watch approach asking people to confidentially report vulnerabilities they discover. One way in which Google tries to reduce the risk it's exposed to is to use an army of external testers who "hammer" code to turn...
[10 Apr 2008]
News The letter said: "Although adolescents are more sophisticated consumers than young children are, they face their own age-related vulnerabilities regarding privacy. The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the...
[10 Apr 2008]
News Of the 2,134 application vulnerabilities recorded in the latest report, web applications dominated the list, making up 58 per cent of the total. Web browser Mozilla Firefox was also found to have contained more vulnerabilities than Internet...
[09 Apr 2008]
News Among the less familiar new threats are metasploit releases, which target networks by simultaneously attacking a number of vulnerabilities (up to 200) on a different platforms including Windows, Linux and the iPhone.
[09 Apr 2008]
News The report also notes vulnerabilities in websites are increasingly popular malware vectors as they allow for more sophisticated and multi-stage attacks. The report reveals that, for the second half of 2007, there were 87,963 "phishing hosts", an...
[09 Apr 2008]
News Core Security published an alert on its website stating it had found eight vulnerabilities related to some open source image processing libraries in Google's Android SDK, which the group claims are outdated.
[06 Mar 2008]
News Drive-by downloads, in which malicious websites exploit browser vulnerabilities to execute malicious code, have increased since April 2007, Google researchers have warned. The malicious sites target web-browser vulnerabilities to automatically...
[20 Feb 2008]
News Alan Bentley, Lumension's European vice president, said: "Attackers have shown in recent years that they'd rather target applications than go directly for the throat of the operating system, placing pressure on businesses to address the Office and...
[14 Feb 2008]
News Microsoft has issued a security advisory that malicious attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 with Service Pack 2, Excel Viewer 2003, Excel 2002, Excel 2000, and Microsoft Excel 2004...
[17 Jan 2008]
News Because of this new passenger connectivity, the proposed data network design and integration may result in security vulnerabilities from intentional or unintentional corruption of data and systems critical to the safety and maintenance of the...
[07 Jan 2008]
News Apple Mac operating systems had more critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007 than Microsoft's operating systems, according to research. While Mac OS X had 234 highly critical vulnerabilities reported in 2007, Vista and XP combined had 23, Ou wrote.
[20 Dec 2007]
News A number of serious vulnerabilities, such as ones which could lead to a malicious attack on users' systems, are fixed with the latest update. It's download time again for Mac OS X users, as 31 new security-related fixes for both Tiger and Leopard...
[18 Dec 2007]
News MPack is a PHP-based malware kit that allows its developers to sell modules of malicious code, while Iframe malware targets browsers by attacking vulnerabilities in the way they handle Iframe HTML tags.
[12 Nov 2007]
News According to the security expert, 99 per cent of mobile malware is targeted at the Symbian operating system because it is the market leader and its source code is open, making it easier to examine the OS for vulnerabilities.
[15 Oct 2007]
News In the last year or so, [XSS vulnerabilities] have been used by attackers to grab cookie values and therefore gain access to normally password-protected sites. When you have organisations like Google spending countless man hours reducing security...
[27 Sep 2007]
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