Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Sun Microsystems has issued updates for Java to eliminate many errors and vulnerabilities in the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). These include DoS vulnerabilities, buffer overflows and other errors that could cause a crash or allow a crafted applet to access certain resources, the filing ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
As I mentioned in my post on Cross Document Messaging, client side cross domain request is an important area of interest for AJAX developers looking for ways to avoid expensive server side proxying calls. While Cross Document Messaging is useful for allowing third party components or gadgets embedded in a ...
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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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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Sometimes I wonder to myself have I mentioned a certain tool on the site, usually one of my favourites…often I search the site to find I have never posted about it.
It just goes to show how we often overlook some of the more ‘obvious’ choices, and to many people they ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
As you will have noticed we’ve posted quite a number of Fuzzing Tools built around different frameworks and in different languages..most for difference targets/purposes too.
Fuzzing has definitely exploded in the last year or so as more people try and understand it and code tools to automate the process. There are ...
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