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White Paper According to recent research conducted by IBM® ISS X-Force®, more than half of all disclosed vulnerabilities in 2008 were Web application flaws. Learn how IBM Web application security solutions can... [20 Oct 2009]
Securing IP Networks
White Paper As Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) is opening the door to a wealth of new opportunities for service providers and their customers, it also ushers in a number of potential security flaws that can be... [01 Oct 2009]
Outsmarting Tomorrow's Hackers Today
White Paper Network IDS/IPS and first-generation Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) don't protect against today's sophisticated web application threats, such as cross-site scripting, injection flaws and other vulnerabilities listed on... [01 Oct 2009]
Red Hat Open Source Security
White Paper No software is perfecteven the most rigorously tested and secured operating system or application will contain flaws and vulnerabilities. The open source development model allows innovation to happen rapidly in all... [18 Sep 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News McAfee Avert Labs director Dave Marcus said two of the flaws, in particular, relate to serious security vulnerabilities in the networking components of Window Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News At the time, Microsoft said it was already seeing attacks based on the flaw, which affects Office XP, Office 2003, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 and 2006, as well as Office Small Business Accounting 2006. [12 Aug 2009]
Google fixes up Chrome flaw gruesome twosome
News Two serious security flaws have been plugged. New versions of Google Chrome are out, fixing bugs and patching security holes in both the stable build and the beta build. Found by the... [20 Jul 2009]
Oracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News Oracle has released fixes for 33 security flaws that affect hundreds of products across its range. Both of the flaws are remotely exploitable, do not require authentication and could... [16 Jul 2009]
Hacking Leopard: Tools and Techniques for Attacking the Newest Mac OS X
White Paper It also reveals tools that are only found on Mac OS X and how they can be used to find security flaws, especially those that can be used in conjunction with fuzzing. It is particularly targeted for those... [13 Jul 2009]
Apple goes on a security Safari with browser patches
News Independent security vendor Secunia gave the flaws addressed by the update a "highly critical" ranking. Both of the flaws affect WebKit, the open source layout engine used in Safari.... [09 Jul 2009]
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]
Evil Searching: Compromise and Recompromise of Internet Hosts for Phishing
White Paper Typical techniques involve the exploitation of flaws in the software of web-based forums, photo galleries, shopping cart systems, and blogs. The security 'Holes' that are taken advantage of are usually... [01 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0 patches 46 security holes
News The 46 flaws could allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions, shut down an application, disclose sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks, or... [19 Jun 2009]
RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server hit by critical bugs
News RIM did not give details of the flaws but said they could be exploited via a specially crafted PDF file. The bug was ranked as "highly critical" in an advisory from independent security firm Secunia. RIM... [01 Jun 2009]
Prevention of IP Spoofing in TCP/IP Connection: Vulnerability Ability and Probable Solutions - A Reverse Engineering Approach
White Paper It also discusses many flaws in the TCP implementation that has occurred in various OS based systems. This paper also discusses TCP attack "IP SPOOFING" and recommends steps to improve the security state... [08 May 2009]
