vulnerabilities patched
Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Fully Patched Browsers Remain Vulnerable
White Paper At times, this occurs due to increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks or newly discovered (so called zero-day) vulnerabilities. As users of technology, it has been taught that the Internet is not always a... [05 Oct 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News None of the flaws patched in this update affect the final version of Windows 7 according to Microsoft (photo credit: Seth Rosenblatt/CNET) The five bulletins address eight vulnerabilities. According to... [09 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
News All of the ActiveX issues patched this month could be easily exploited and can impact even the average computer user," Greenbaum said in an e-mail. The nine patches actually relate to 19 separate... [12 Aug 2009]
Microsoft releases emergency patch to plug critical ActiveX hole
News Although Microsoft has protected against the kill bit bypass and has patched the public ATL vulnerabilities, there has been no mention or reference to fixing the issue in msvidctl.dll itself," he wrote... [29 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0 patches 46 security holes
News Apple has patched nearly four dozen security holes in the iPhone and iPod Touch with its iPhone OS 3.0 release, made available on Wednesday. Independent security firm Secunia ranked the most serious of the... [19 Jun 2009]
The Business Case for a Network Security Assessment
White Paper It doesn't matter if the breach occurred through vulnerable web applications, leaked passwords, a poorly-configured firewall, an un-patched operating system or a misplaced zip drive; when the exploit is discovered, the... [13 Jun 2009]
Windows, IE, Word, Office, and Excel all getting patched
News Meanwhile, the six critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft software could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a machine, according to the Microsoft security bulletin issued on Thursday. Three important... [05 Jun 2009]
Leopard purrs as Apple updates security
News The update patches three separate vulnerabilities in Apple Type Services, QuickDraw Manager, and WebKit - all of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Apple on Tuesday released OS X 10.5.7, an update to its... [13 May 2009]
Microsoft plugs Windows, Word and Excel holes
News Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of vulnerability-management-software company Qualys, said: "We were astonished to see how many zero-days are in that release," in reference to exploits that target software with a vulnerability that has not been... [15 Apr 2009]
Browser hijacks and holey software skyrockets
News The worm, which has infected millions of Windows-based PCs that are not patched, is now communicating with other infected machines via peer-to-peer, dropping a mystery payload and installing malware that masquerades as... [14 Apr 2009]
Placing Backdoors Through Firewalls
White Paper Hackers often want to retain access to systems they have penetrated even in the face of obstacles such as new firewalls and patched vulnerabilities. This paper describes possible backdoors through... [05 Nov 2008]
Android security hole gets patched up
News Earlier, Google appealed for what it called "responsible disclosure" of security vulnerabilities - in other words, a grace period to fix problems before they're made public to reduce the likelihood an attacker will get a... [03 Nov 2008]
Google releases notes on Chrome security fixes
News Google has revealed details of two critical-risk vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser and some lesser issues it says are now fixed. The critical patches relate to buffer overrun vulnerabilities that... [09 Sep 2008]
Gartner Report: Understanding the Nine Protection Styles of Host-Based Intrusion Prevention
White Paper Traditional antivirus and personal firewall solutions are no longer sufficient to protect endpoint systems against targeted application-level attacks, and we can't keep our systems patched as quickly as new... [02 Sep 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Security vendor McAfee noted that Microsoft had not released this many bulletins simultaneously since February, and had not patched as many vulnerabilities at once for the past two years. Microsoft has... [13 Aug 2008]
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