Monday, December 29th, 2008 The FBI today challenged anyone in the online community to break a cipher code on its site. The code was created by FBI cryptanalysts. The bureau invited hackers to a similar code-cracking challenge last year and got tens of thousands of responses it said.A number of sites host such cipher ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 The Ruby on Rails Security Project have published a Ruby on Rails Security Guide as a free e-book and also made it available as HTML. The guide covers how to secure Ruby on Rails applications, looking at, sessions and how to manage them securely, cross site forgery, redirection and other ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008 Microsoft Corp. yesterday acknowledged that exploit code is circulating for a vulnerability it acknowledged six months ago, but has yet to patch.It's not clear whether Microsoft intends to fix the flaw next week.On Thursday, Microsoft revised a security advisory it first posted April 19 about a bug in Windows XP, ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008 Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel's microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.Kaspersky will demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Cybercriminals are exploiting a bug in software used by Microsoft's Access database program in a new online attack, Microsoft warned Monday.The flaw lies in the Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which ships with "all supported versions of Microsoft Office Access except Microsoft Access 2007," Microsoft said in a security advisory, published ...
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