security flaws
Security flaws found in hundreds of email filtering tools
News The body responsible for protecting the UK's critical national infrastructure against electronic attack has issued an urgent alert to users about eight serious new security flaws affecting hundreds of... [13 Sep 2004]
Security flaws will be patched, pledges Oracle
News Database software maker Oracle promised to quickly make patches available for the more than 30 flaws found by a British security researcher. While details of the flaws have not been made... [04 Aug 2004]
Security flaws sink software vendors' stock
News The share price of software companies drops noticeably when security flaws are found in their products, according a recent study. The results of the study, which tracked 146 vulnerability disclosures for... [10 Jun 2005]
XP Service Pack 2: First security flaws found
News Security researchers say they're starting to find flaws in Microsoft's latest major update for Windows XP. Last week, German company Heise Security announced that two... [19 Aug 2004]
US tax office slammed over security flaws
News The US tax office, the Inland Revenue Service (IRS), has failed to rectify security flaws found in its computer system two years ago, according to the latest report from the General Accounting Office (GAO). [15 Jan 1999]
UK firms' security flaws an open door to hackers
News A third of the companies we examined were guilty of bad security housekeeping, with unacceptable levels of basic flaws found, leaving them vulnerable to external attack. But at least a third of corporate... [02 Jun 2003]
A Systematic Approach to Uncover Security Flaws in GUI Logic
White Paper Visual spoofing attacks that exploit these flaws can lure even security-conscious users to perform unintended actions. GUI logic flaws are category of software vulnerabilities that... [23 May 2007]
Banks warned over IT security flaws
News The number of security flaws within financial institutions' IT systems is growing fast, due in part to customer demand for internet services.silicon.com Financial Services A spokeswoman from... [14 Jun 2007]
Microsoft patches 22 security flaws
News Microsoft has released 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 new flaws that affect the company's products. Microsoft's highest severity rating for... [13 Oct 2004]
Open source security flaws alert
News CERT has issued advisories for the OpenSSH and Sendmail flaws. Word of these flaws comes amid concern that virus writers may create new bugs based on Windows vulnerabilities disclosed last week. The... [22 Sep 2003]
'BlackAngels' hackers swoop on Cisco security flaws
News The group has written the code in an effort to bring more awareness to security flaws, according to the site. Cisco Systems issued a security warning this weekend to customers after new... [30 Mar 2004]
Microsoft game for plugging two security flaws
News The two flaws are ranked as "moderate," the software giant's second-lowest grade for security vulnerabilities. Microsoft released patches for a score of flaws in mid-April, but the fixes... [09 Jun 2004]
Microsoft warns of three new 'critical' security flaws
News PC users already suffering under a wave of virus attacks this week have been warned by Microsoft of three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows that could lead them open to attack. The... [21 Aug 2003]
Microsoft security: Four flaws uncovered
News Two flaws allow this restriction to be bypassed," according to the security alert. The fourth security warning alerted customers to the availability of a cumulative patch for four... [04 Oct 2002]
Identity Management: The Seven Flaws of Identity Management - Usability and Security Challenges
White Paper In this paper, the authors posit seven flaws or design challenges that must be met for the general public to accept and use identity management systems. Identity management systems' scale and complexity, combined with... [01 Jul 2009]