Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Security service Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has found three critical vulnerabilities that allow attackers to infect the computers of Trillian Instant Messenger users with malicious code. The vendor has responded by releasing an update to close the holes.
When processing XML through functions of the talk.dll dynamic link library, malformed ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 You don’t have to take an ax to a piece of hardware to perform a so-called permanent denial-of-service (PDOS) attack. A researcher this week will demonstrate a PDOS attack that can take place remotely.A PDOS attack damages a system so badly that it requires replacement or reinstallation of hardware. Unlike ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008 Five former Cisco engineers have co-founded a start-up called Rohati Systems whose products take dead aim at traditional perimeter firewalls.
A traditional firewall and its access control lists "is not capable of doing its job today from an access-control perspective," says CEO and President Shane Buckley. "Nowadays, your ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Eruces Data Security has secured a patent for its three-step encryption and key management scheme, which is designed to lock down data through its lifecycle.The security firm’s so-called Tricryption technology first encrypts the data itself with symmetric keys, and then encrypts the keys and stores them in a central key ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Over the weekend, a number of network administrators issued warnings over an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of attempts to guess the username and password of systems running secure shell (SSH), the encrypted access method that replaced the common telnet service. System administrators at universities and some companies have reported ...
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