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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. However, it is increasingly resulting from exploitation, which does not target... [05 Oct 2009]
McAfee Vulnerability Manager Remediates System Vulnerabilities and Mitigates Risks at CSU, Chico
White Paper CSU, Chico needed a comprehensive enterprise vulnerability management system that could be managed primarily by its 75 departmental server administrators - many of whom are not IT professionals. At... [01 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]
Is Chrome ready to shine when it comes to security?
News The number of new browser vulnerabilities has increased rapidly every year since 2003, and the number discovered in web browser plug-ins has more than quadrupled, according to the National Vulnerability... [23 Jul 2009]
eEye Retina Network Security Scanner v5.10 & REM Security Management Console: Product Report on PCI Suitability
White Paper As such, NSS Labs tested the scanner's ability to accurately identify and classify a much broader range of application vulnerabilities than would be required for an external vulnerability scanner - such... [13 Jul 2009]
Enterprise Threat Management (ETM): Bringing Security Together Through Intelligence
White Paper While IT security spending has been on the increase in recent years, unfortunately so have vulnerabilities and successful attacks. Employees are unintentionally - and intentionally - creating new... [01 Jul 2009]
ARMing the Enterprise Against Security Posture Drift
White Paper Shavlik solutions maintain a secure, policy-compliant enterprise network through automatic and continuous assessment, remediation, and management of vulnerabilities related to patch levels, spyware, and... [20 Jun 2009]
Automatically Identify Network Vulnerabilities and Reduce Business Risk
White Paper When the DNS vulnerability was identified, did the management system automatically identify network infrastructure devices at risk? Instead of dedicating IT personnel to identifying liable devices and... [25 Apr 2009]
Microsoft plugs Windows, Word and Excel holes
News Another patch fixes four critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted web page or if a user connects to an attacker's server via HTTP. [15 Apr 2009]
Automated Penetration Testing: Can IT Afford Not To?
White Paper During IDC's research and in-depth interviews, they found compelling reasons why IT executives and team members must adopt Penetration Testing as an integral part of their Security and Vulnerability... [18 Mar 2009]
Penetration Testing: Taking the Guesswork out of Vulnerability Management
White Paper Security professionals must now know the real risks and implications of vulnerabilities and regularly test the effectiveness of network defenses. Understand the actual risk to the business posed by specific... [18 Mar 2009]
McAfee Case Study: Satellite Asset Management, L.P.
White Paper Satellite needed a vulnerability management solution that scanned and eliminated software defects, as well as all five classes of vulnerabilities. They needed an automated... [11 Nov 2008]
Portable Document Format (PDF) Security Analysis and Malware Threats
White Paper Only a very few cases of attacks are known, which exploit vulnerabilities in the management of external programming languages (Javacript, VBS). This paper presents an in-depth security analysis of the... [22 Oct 2008]
An Introduction to Intrusion Detection and Assessment
White Paper Vulnerability-assessment tools check systems and networks for system problems and configuration errors that represent security vulnerabilities. Both intrusion-detection and... [02 Sep 2008]
Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Security Bulletin MS08-044 gives details of five critical vulnerabilities in Office filters that could allow remote code execution, while Security Bulletin MS08-046 gives details of a vulnerability in... [13 Aug 2008]
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