Microsoft ballyhoos Vista's lower patch count
Microsoft touted Windows Vista's lower patch count Wednesday, saying it required about 20% fewer fixes in 2007 than the four-year-old Windows XP Service Pack 2
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Auditing open source software
...count[17], weight[17], start[18], *p
for (i = 0; i < (unsigned)nchar; i++) count[bitlen[i
Here, the stack-based array "count" is indexed by values in the "bitlen" array. These values are under the control of data in the incoming untrusted compressed data, and were not checked for being within the bounds of the "count" array. This led to...
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Counting the Bullets on the (Malware) Front
2008-07-25 03:25:13 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...count them of course
It demonstrates that it is possible to announce that we detected, at the end of 2007, between 357,820 (DAT-5196) and 8,600,000 pieces of malware. And I predict we will detect at the end of 2008 between 450,000 and 22,000,000 malware. OK, I joke a bit, but I also want to demonstrate there are many manners to count malware...
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Oh No! Security Metrics!
...counts as a means to measure security improvement resulting from the SDL
I've raised this topic before, in my blog post The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem . Here are two pertinent quotes from that blog post of Feb 21 st
Let's face it, no-one can agree on any measurement of security without...
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Fuzz Testing at Microsoft and the Triage Process
...countered during the execution of an application. They can be generated both by the hardware (initiated by the CPU) and/or software (initiated by the executing program or the OS). To monitor for these exceptions, we created a mini-debugger using the Win32 Debugging APIs (For an example of how to integrate a debugger into your fuzz testing...
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Yet Another Massive Embedded Malware Attack
2008-02-27 11:42:39 by HASH0x8b05fe8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...count.php?o=4 - 203.117.111.102
buhaterafe.com/in.php?adv=1208&val=65286d - 202.83.197.239
193.109.163.179/exp/count.php
193.109.163.179/exp/getexe.php
78.109.22.242/mikh/1.html
78.109.22.242/sh.html
Who says there's no such thing as free malware cocktails
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Communicating Risk & Macs Can Do Anything
...count? Or hunches
Ken Tremendous: Not really, no. I mean, theyre fun. Theyre fun to toss around and stuff. But they dont count when you are trying to scientifically project a teams performance. That is kind of the point of scientifically projecting a teams performance
Chicago Tribune: Computers have no use for heart, or least they cant...
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Get the feeling youre being had?
...counter researchers
By the companys count, the MSRT cleaned more than 526,000 Storm-infected PCs in the final four months of last year. After some back and forth between the Storm bot herders and Microsoft, the former gave up, said Jimmy Kuo, a senior security architect at the company
Not so fast, said Trend Micro
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HMRC loses data cartridge that affects 6,548 pensioners
...Countrywide Assured pension customers
Number Affected
6,548
Types of Data
Names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers*, and pension contributions
equivalent to Social Security numbers in US
Breach Description
A "data cartridge" sent from Countrywide Assured to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been lost at an...
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