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Active Systems Management: The Evolution of Firewalls
White Paper Following a successful exploitation of a host, the worm propagates by scanning for other vulnerable hosts to infect. For over twenty-five years, the security community has focused on improving security,... [10 Jul 2008]
Corporations riddled with security holes
News Successful exploitation of this issue would allow an attacker to gain control of processes and execute arbitrary code. Poor corporate IT security is leaving businesses vulnerable - with almost 90 per... [19 Jun 2008]
Top Security Vulnerabilities in Web 2.0 Applications
White Paper Web 2.0 applications can be more vulnerable to exploitation by hackers than their predecessors. This HP white paper defines some of the common technological components of Web 2.0 applications and... [17 Jun 2008]
iPhone: Beware the wi-fi security threat
News Gatford identified wi-fi as being a technology ripe to hack the iPhone, and said its exploitation for malicious purposes would only continue to grow: "Wi-fi spots aren't encrypted .nor is a great amount of the... [12 Jun 2008]
E-Commerce Security Technologies: An Evaluation Using the Metasploit Framework (MSF)
White Paper Metasploit is an open source toolkit and development platform used for software exploitation. It will be based on experiments conducted on one's own personal computer systems, using Metasploit to exploit... [21 May 2008]
Cisco Security Advisory: Crafted IP Option Vulnerability
White Paper Exploitation of the vulnerability may potentially allow for arbitrary code execution. Cisco routers and switches running Cisco IOS or Cisco IOS XR software may be vulnerable to a remotely exploitable... [09 Jun 2007]
Cisco Security Advisory: Crafted IP Option Vulnerability
Exploitation of the vulnerability may potentially allow for arbitrary code execution. Cisco routers and switches running Cisco IOS or Cisco IOS XR software may be vulnerable to a remotely exploitable... [09 Jun 2007]
Apple patches QuickTime flaw at last
News Still, experts have not seen widespread exploitation of the problem. An attacker could exploit the flaw and commandeer a vulnerable system by placing a special RTSP string in a QuickTime file and... [24 Jan 2007]
OpenOffice tackles "highly critical" hole
News Exploitation of the vulnerability, which affects all but the newest version of OpenOffice, can enable a hacker to perform a buffer overflow and then introduce malicious code to the victim's PC. Users must manually... [08 Jan 2007]
Cisco warns over pair of network flaws
News Successful exploitation of the unchangeable shared secret vulnerability may enable a malicious user to take administrative control of a CAS. The NAC Appliance includes software that can automatically detect, isolate, and... [08 Jan 2007]
Microsoft slaps quick fix on IE flaw
News Ken Dunham, director of the rapid response team at VeriSign's iDefense, said: "Exploitation has already eclipsed that of the last out-of-cycle patch. Malicious software can be loaded, unbeknown to the user, onto a... [27 Sep 2006]
Devil's Advocate: Ethics before profit
Comment It seems that on this kind of issue, profit takes precedence over the protection of citizens against exploitation. US politicians are notorious for refusing to take effective action against spamming, leaving us... [07 Feb 2006]
Microsoft gets ahead of itself with WMF patch
News Debby Fry Wilson, a director in Microsoft's Security Response Center, said in an interview: "Although the attacks based on WMF are very real, and the exploitation and the threats are evolving on a very fast basis, our... [06 Jan 2006]
More Windows exploits posted online
News Sutton also warned computer users to be on guard for exploitation of the unpatched bug. The exploit posted on Thursday is another that could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control over a... [02 Dec 2005]
Windows exploit code released
News A Microsoft representative said in a statement: "Initial investigation of this exploit code has verified that successful exploitation could lead to a denial of service attack.and not remote code execution. [29 Nov 2005]
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