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RSS vulnerableWeb Application Security: Automated scanning versus manual penetration testing
White Paper Research has shown that a vast number of Web sites are vulnerable to application attacks, most occurring over HTTP/S protocols. There are two methods to detect Web vulnerability: using manual penetration testing and code... [12 Oct 2009]
Your Browser Wears No Clothes: Why Fully Patched Browsers Remain Vulnerable
White Paper As users of technology, it has been taught that the Internet is not always a safe place but that it can protect ourselves by patching and hardening systems. While patch management and system hardening have long been the basics for... [05 Oct 2009]
Stay One Step Ahead With Comodo 2048-Bit Certificates
White Paper If one is still using a 1024-bit certificate, one may soon be vulnerable to a "Brute-Force Attack". An exponential trend in computer processing power has resulted in the ability for criminals to compromise 1024- bit key... [05 Oct 2009]
An Anatomy of a Web Hack: SQL Injection Explained
White Paper The nation of SQL injection isn't new, but is still widely misunderstood and many sites are still vulnerable to attack. This paper shows how easy it is to penetrate the average website and gain information about the... [05 Oct 2009]
Inputs of Coma: Static Detection of Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities
White Paper As networked systems grow in complexity, they are increasingly vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks involving resource exhaustion. A single malicious input of coma can trigger high-complexity behavior such as... [02 Oct 2009]
Network Security for Unified Communications Infrastructures
White Paper It is no secret that the internet is inundated with viruses, spam and malicious hackers seeking to exploit vulnerable infrastructures, so it is incumbent on companies to protect their customer information - as well as... [02 Oct 2009]
PuppetCast: A Secure Peer Sampling Protocol
White Paper Existing peer sampling protocols are either very vulnerable to attacks by malicious nodes, do not scale to large systems or provide only a static sample of the population. PuppetCast is a protocol for secure peer... [02 Oct 2009]
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
White Paper Acknowledgments, if lost, can cause a port to be open for a longer time and thus be vulnerable to DoS attacks; Time servers for synchronizing clocks can become targets to DoS attack themselves. A weak point in... [02 Oct 2009]
How Vulnerable Are Your Cisco IOS Routers?
White Paper Network security is a top priority for companies, and this includes securing Cisco routers. It is surprising to some that Cisco routers run many services that could create vulnerabilities. Some of these services are enabled by default. [01 Oct 2009]
Webcast: Voice over IP Security
White Paper It's important to understand that VoIP is vulnerable to specific types of attacks. The signaling is also vulnerable to attack, which can include misdirected or counterfeit signaling messages that may be... [01 Oct 2009]
How to avoid getting burned when outsourcing
News This means that BPO providers could be vulnerable if they are tied too closely to the FS market. Want to avoid getting burned when signing a BPO deal? There's a set of warning signs that buyers should look for in order... [30 Sep 2009]
Photos: Tech wins big in US Army 'best inventions' awards
Photo Traditionally, one soldier in a Humvee (high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle) stood up through a roof in the vehicle to man the roof-mounted machine gun, which is a terribly vulnerable place to be. [30 Sep 2009]
A Survey on MANET Intrusion Detection
White Paper The MANET is more vulnerable to be attacked than wired network. In recent years, the security issues on MANET have become one of the primary concerns. These vulnerabilities are nature of the MANET structure that cannot... [11 Sep 2009]
Five critical Windows updates arrive on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday
News That said, all of today's security bulletins address vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take complete control of a vulnerable PC. In addition, Microsoft said it is rereleasing a bulletin from last month to... [09 Sep 2009]
Windows 7: Unaffected by latest zero-day flaw
News Also, the recently completed Windows Server 2008 R2 is not vulnerable, Microsoft said, nor are the earlier Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems. Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late on Tuesday on a... [09 Sep 2009]
