Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
While most VoIP-related vulnerabilities are posted to the VOIPSA mailing list or blog, I thought it might be useful to have a informal quarterly summary of sorts among VoIP devices per searches from NIST. I hope folks find it helpful, and of course post comments if I’ve overlooked anything from ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Is your company's Web site hacked? Today, it can be hard to tell. Online crooks who successfully break into a site often sneak in small bits of code that leave no visible trace but can attack visitors who simply view the page.
In fact, according to a Websense Security Labs report, online thugs who want ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Cisco has reported a critical security hole in CiscoWorks Internetwork Performance Monitor (IPM), the network availability monitoring component of the CiscoWorks LAN Management Solution (LMS). According to the advisory, commands can be executed remotely on the underlying Solaris or Windows operating system without authentication.
Cisco reports that the problem is due ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Which operating system, embedded in more than 80% of enterprise IT environments, represents one of the fastest-growing hacker targets and potentially the most-devastating information-security vulnerability? Hint: It ain't Windows. Cisco Systems' Internetwork Operating System now sits at the center of the information security vortex. Because IOS controls the routers that ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you think that today's high-speed Internet connections are fast, wait till you see what cable operators plan. The industry's standard-settings unit, CableLabs, plans to endorse this month technology that will let operators boost speeds 400% to 1,600%, over their existing lines.
Motorola and Cisco are among the companies offering alternative ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Cisco's Linksys WRT54G Wireless-G Broadband Router has a flaw that could allow an attacker to gain administrative privileges on vulnerable devices. Even if the remote administration feature on the device is turned off, the router serves the administration web page on ports 80 and 443, protected only by a weak ...
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