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whitepaper It goes without saying that attackers follow security vulnerabilities, as these are a requirement for their success. Over the past several years, these vulnerabilities have increasingly moved up the application stack and away from the core...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Organizations today face a threat landscape that increasingly involves stealthy, targeted, and financially motivated attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in endpoint devices. Many of these threats can evade traditional security solutions, leaving...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper It includes analysis of network-based attacks, a review of known vulnerabilities, and highlights of malicious code. The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report provides a six-month update of Internet threat activity.
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Furthermore ensuring vulnerabilities could be reported in a timely manner and rectified quickly. St Mary's wanted to centralise its software installation procedure to reduce the number of people and time needed to roll out site-wide applications...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Organizations now face a threat landscape that involves stealthy, targeted, and financially motivated attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in endpoint devices. As today's IT professionals know all too well, managing the dynamics of their endpoint...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Today's SMBs face a threat landscape that involves stealthy, targeted, and financially motivated attacks aimed at exploiting vulnerabilities in endpoint devices. Securing endpoints is essential to protect assets and maintain a solid business...
[11 May 2008]
News However, modifying the URL runs a script which attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in various applications, including AOL, Microsoft Internet Explorer, MySpace and RealNetworks RealPlayer. Thakur noted that third-party applications rather than...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper One way to increase the trust in the existing security is to develop and maintain a set of comprehensive security policies directing the actions for preventing, eliminating or reducing security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities to an...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper Constantly looking for new vulnerabilities to exploit, today's cybercriminals are using fast- changing, low-profile threats to surreptitiously infect and hijack computers across the business network. Spammed email, infected endpoint devices and...
[03 May 2008]
Comment In 2003, I wrote: "The past 12 months have witnessed a worrying escalation in the number of vulnerabilities that can lead to internet-based attacks on organisations and compromise their information infrastructure.
[29 Apr 2008]
News He said: "I think that the fact that businesses depend on applications to make them successful, but they're also the biggest weaknesses because of the vulnerabilities that we have in applications. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London...
[24 Apr 2008]
whitepaper As it is infeasible to examine and test each firewall for all possible potential problems, taxonomy is needed to understand firewall vulnerabilities in the context of firewall operations. This paper describes a novel methodology for analyzing...
[24 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Often enough the vectors used to exploit an unsuspecting user's vulnerabilities are not what you may think. Access to the Web is not an option anymore. However, criminal hackers have cost businesses billions.
[24 Apr 2008]
News The company released the patches this week after a number of vulnerabilities were discovered in the browser recently, including one which allowed a security expert to take control of a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security conference in March...
[18 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Such tools have reached a high level of dependence among security professionals for evaluating potential vulnerabilities in such areas as operating systems, device configuration, networking protocols and applications.
[18 Apr 2008]
News Infrastructure vulnerabilities introduced through misconfiguration should be a concern for IT professionals, according to Herrod. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer for VMware, who was also speaking at the RSA Conference, claimed...
[16 Apr 2008]
whitepaper The presenter of this webcast tell how an HP SIM & HP Insight Control environment scans & patches security vulnerabilities & ensures that sensitive information remains uncompromised.
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper There is a Tower Group white paper on the need for stronger consumer banking authentication, a study about innovative solutions for identifying, measuring, and optimizing operational risks and an ISS case study about staying on top of new...
[14 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities are a serious threat to providing Microsoft Online Services customers with a trustworthy computing experience. This webcast explains how inconsistently or poorly integrated validated output can cause XSS...
[11 Apr 2008]
whitepaper Typically these attacks are easily carried out by exploiting the vulnerabilities. This paper will cover a free open source tool that can be used to discover the vulnerabilities of a given system. Internet "Insecurity" is a major problem in today's...
[11 Apr 2008]
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