Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Open-source developers have warned of serious security holes in two Linux components that could allow attackers to take over a system by tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted image file or opening an archive. Patches exist for the bugs, which affect LHA and imlib.
Imlib, a library for graphics-viewing ...
Posted in Linux, Security | No Comments
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Scott Rolf knows trouble when he sees it. An IT director for a law firm near Cleveland, Ohio, Rolf was asked by a friend to check out the new Web site the friend had put up on a DSL-connected Web server. Rolf did more than just visit his friend's site; ...
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Security | No Comments
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Last week, InfoWorld columnist Oliver Rist recommended that you stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer as your browser. He had good reason: The latest vulnerability reports point out some significant security holes in IE that aren?t going to be easily overcome.
According to Rist (who is sitting behind me while I write ...
Posted in Security | No Comments
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.
A statement on the CERT site said: "There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone ...
Posted in Security | No Comments
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Security in all mainstream operating systems is non-existent; however, things are especially bad for Windows. Windows happens to be the favourite target of worm and virus writers. Conventional wisdom suggests that the huge installed base of Windows helps spread the worms and viruses, and also makes it a highly attractive ...
Posted in Security, Windows | No Comments
