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Database patch denial: How 'critical' are Oracle's CPUs?

2008-06-25 00:00:00 by Peter Giannoulis in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
A recent survey found that a considerable number of users are outright rejecting Oracle's Critical Patch Updates, perhaps suggesting database administrators feel comfortable with their security defenses or find Oracle's patches to be more of a nuisance than a necessity. Database administrator and security expert Michael Cobb explains why most...
 
Tags: database, database administrators, oracle, database administrator, recent survey, security defenses, critical patch, cpus, necessity
 
 
 
 
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OMG, This Is So 20th Century :-)

2007-12-11 23:32:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...CPUs, disks, connections are pretty useful to criminals .... And, yes, so is their data Forward the SANS piece to all you non-computer / non-IT friends ... (sadly, some IT folks too About me: http://www.chuvakin.org
 
Tags: folks, sans folks debunk, non-it friends, non-computer, holy chao, sans piece, computer, sadly, connections
 
 
 
 
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Five software tools and commands you wish existed

2008-04-15 14:00:00 by Robert Crawford, Contributor in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Ever wished for a quick-fix tool for all your computing woes? You're not alone. When CICS misbehaves or CPUs get over worked, some helpful tools would go a long way to improving job satisfaction for IT professionals
 
Tags: cics misbehaves, quick-fix tool, job satisfaction, helpful tools, professionals, woes, cpus
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn At The Bar Again? Security Costs in a Pay Per Drink Cloud

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2008-05-01 20:55:26 by Craig Balding in Cloud Security
...CPUs appear Now lets see how this plays out with Cloud Computing, where the change in paradigm will remove the compute limits and make your on the spot risk decisions link directly to your costs and security tool efficiencies Simon the Security Dude receives an auto-generated email from the Cloud Provider A virtual CPU was auto-inserted on...
 
Tags: security costs, costs, runtime security costs, security runtime costs, security, security tool, security tool inefficiency, security tools plays, plays
 
 
 
 
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Using Data Execution Prevention (DEP) in Windows XP and Vista: Fighting back against buffer overflows and memory corruption

2008-06-09 00:36:29 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site
 
...CPUs can take to prevent various types of memory corruption attacks. One such feature is the NX bit (as AMD calls it, XD is Intels term), which allows for memory pages to me marked as not executable. Microsoft Windows started using this ability with XP SP2 as part of their Data Execution Prevention (DEP) feature. Unfortunately, to get most...
 
Tags: dep, data execution prevention, memory corruption, windows, configure dep protection, configure, memory corruption attacks, vista, buffer overflows
 
 
 
 
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Remote Code Execution Through Intel CPU Vulnerability Will Be Presented In Hack In The Box Security Conference

2008-07-15 13:37:46 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Intel CPUs have exploitable bugs which are vulnerable to both local and remote attacks which works against any OS regardless of the patches applied or the applications which are running. Kris Kaspersky, author of numerous books on reverse engineering and software engineering, will be presenting his research on remote code execution through Intel...
 
Tags: remote code execution, intel cpu bugs, numerous books, kris kaspersky, exploitable bugs, intel cpus, remote attacks, research, applications
 
 
 
 
 
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