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Vulnerability Scanning in the Corporate Enterprise
White Paper It is important to keep in mind the ultimate goal, which is to close security holes. Most corporate security professionals live in a world where stealth TCP scanning, midnight vulnerability scans and staring at a sniffer in computer room only... [03 Jul 2008]
Paranoia Vs. Transparency and Their Effects On Internet Security
White Paper Scanning a host is the fastest way to identify its remote vulnerabilities since it puts the analyst in the same perspective as an attacker, seeing all possible holes. A scanner is simply security software that automates the process of making... [03 Jul 2008]
Achilles’Shield Technical White Paper: A New Internet Security System for Protecting Networks and Computer Systems Against Viruses and Malicious Code
White Paper DDoS) attacks and create “backdoor” security holes. And, while the growth of internetworking has increased the resources available to individuals and enabled businesses to operate more effectively, it has also exponentially increased exposure and... [03 Jul 2008]
Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Secure PIX Firewall SMTP Filtering Vulnerability
White Paper The PIX is a firewall appliance based on a hardened, specially built operating system, PIX OS, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes. This vulnerability can be exploited to bypass SMTP command filtering. [01 Jul 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Internet Information Servers internet printing protocol is enabled: Enables print jobs to be controlled online and early versions contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that can lead to system compromise. [19 Jun 2008]
Microsoft boosts stability of Office 2008 for Mac
News Microsoft has released its first update to Office 2008 for Mac, fixes that should boost stability and performance in some areas, while closing some security holes. This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents... [12 Mar 2008]
Windows at risk from fancy cursors
News Such holes are often exploited by cyber crooks to do "drive-by" installations of malicious software. A new security vulnerability puts Windows users at risk of serious cyber attacks, Microsoft has warned. [30 Mar 2007]
VoIP threats to watch out for
Comment Some of its characteristics also leave it vulnerable to hackers, such as using text for encoding and SIP extensions that can create security holes. A US fraud case in 2006 heard how hackers broke into VoIP service providers' systems using the... [09 Mar 2007]
Microsoft probing holes in Vista, IE 7
News The French Security Incident Response Team (FrSirt) said in an alert that the IE vulnerability, which also affects IE 6, could be exploited in phishing attacks. Microsoft is investigating two recently disclosed security vulnerabilities that affect... [27 Feb 2007]
Zero-day attack strikes Office
News Five of them were zero-day flaws, or security holes that have been publicly disclosed but not fixed. The vulnerability is being exploited in "very limited, targeted attacks", Microsoft said. A new, yet-to-be-patched security hole in Word is being... [16 Feb 2007]
Attackers hitting yet another Word flaw
News Microsoft hasn't provided patches for any of the flaws, despite acknowledging the holes are being used in attacks on its customers. Another previously undocumented, yet-to-be-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft Word is actively being... [26 Jan 2007]
Redmond patches Windows, Office flaws
News Nine of the 10 security holes Microsoft provided fixes for lie in Office applications. The vulnerability lies in a Windows component called 'vgx.dll' that is meant to support Vector Markup Language (VML) documents in the operating system. [10 Jan 2007]
Three dire Windows holes patched
News Microsoft also provided a patch for a zero-day vulnerability that affects Visual Studio 2005 developer tools. Amol Sarwate, a research manager at vulnerability management company Qualys, said: "While we see Microsoft making an attempt to patch zero... [13 Dec 2006]
No fix yet for Word bug
News The company did not specify how many flaws Tuesday's updates will address or in which components of Windows the holes lie. The Visual Studio update could offer a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in the developer tools that was made public last... [08 Dec 2006]
Alert over Spybot worm
News An updated variant of a malicious bot program is spreading via a flaw in Symantec's antivirus software as well as through several holes in Microsoft code. This Spybot variant attempts to break into computers through a six-month-old vulnerability in... [30 Nov 2006]
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