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The New Threat: Attacks That Target Healthcare (and What You Can Do About It)
White Paper Armed with sophisticated tools, attackers exploit countless software vulnerabilities that exist in the multitude of systems a provider relies upon, including web-based applications such EHR/EMR systems. [13 Nov 2009]
USB Drives: Friend or Foe?: New User Trends and Exploits in USB Requires Security Controls to Protect Endpoints and the Networked Enterprise
White Paper This whitepaper describes how security professionals can reduce risks of vulnerabilities to portable applications and USB storage. The paper also provides several examples of attacks using USB drives that... [13 Nov 2009]
Vulnerability Anti.dote: Zero-Day Protection Against Known Vulnerabilities
White Paper This paper outlines the benefits of active real-time content inspection technology and in particular the benefits of Vulnerability Anti.dote, as a solution to prevent enterprises, corporations, businesses and governmental agencies to be... [13 Nov 2009]
Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the ActionScript Virtual Machine
White Paper Memory corruption vulnerabilities are becoming increasingly difficult to exploit, largely due to the protection mechanisms being integrated into most modern operating systems. Memory corruption... [02 Oct 2009]
Inputs of Coma: Static Detection of Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities
White Paper These DoS attacks exploit the semantics of the target application, are rarely associated with network traffic anomalies, and are thus extremely difficult to detect using conventional methods. As networked systems grow in... [02 Oct 2009]
A Survey on MANET Intrusion Detection
White Paper As a result, attacks with malicious intent have been and will be devised to exploit these vulnerabilities and to cripple the MANET operation. These vulnerabilities are nature of the... [11 Sep 2009]
Windows 7: Unaffected by latest zero-day flaw
News We are not aware of attacks that try to use the reported vulnerabilities or of customer impact at this time. Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly release for patches, which included five critical Windows updates addressing... [09 Sep 2009]
Cisco wireless LAN: At risk from 'skyjack' attack
News As a matter of policy, Cisco takes security vulnerabilities very seriously and we continue to take active measures to safeguard the security and reliability of our equipment," a Cisco spokesperson said. [25 Aug 2009]
Security: Why Adobe could be the new Microsoft
News In addition, there are more and more zero day holes, vulnerabilities that are public before a patch is available. Today, it's likely to be Adobe Reader or Flash Player, whose share of vulnerabilities and... [07 Aug 2009]
Microsoft: Security patches are beating malware in race to users
News Meanwhile, the Microsoft Security Response Center said that of the 50 security bulletins it published from October 2008 to June 2009, patches were released in response to 138 vulnerabilities. In estimating how... [28 Jul 2009]
'Hack your own Oracle database' tool unveiled next week
News Gates is a member of the Metasploit project, an open source platform used for developing, testing, and using exploit code and sharing information related to finding vulnerabilities. Over the years there... [24 Jul 2009]
Flash hole fix coming next week, says Adobe
News The vulnerabilities can be mitigated by disabling the Flash plug-in or by using the NoScript extension for Mozilla Firefox or SeaMonkey to whitelist sites that can access the Flash plug-in, Cert said. [24 Jul 2009]
Oracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News In its security advisory, published alongside the patches on Tuesday, the software maker gave two of the vulnerabilities its highest possible severity rating. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed in... [16 Jul 2009]
Strider HoneyMonkeys: Active, Client-Side Honeypots for Finding Malicious Websites
White Paper A serious threat is emerging on the Internet where malicious Web sites exploit browser vulnerabilities to install malicious software. This paper describes the Strider HoneyMonkey Exploit... [14 Jul 2009]
Microsoft DirectX gets fix in Patch Tuesday
News The critical vulnerabilities affecting various Windows versions all could allow an attacker to run code remotely, while one of the non-critical holes involving Virtual PC and Virtual Server would allow remote code... [10 Jul 2009]
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