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Yahoo Mail vulnerability discovered, fixed, company says

2008-06-25 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Yahoo today said it has fixed a vulnerability discovered in Yahoo Mail that would have allowed an attacker to gain control of the victim's Yahoo Identity. Security vendor Cenzic discovered the flaw last month and reported it to Yahoo, which fixed it on June 13, according to the company
 
Tags: yahoo, yahoo mail, yahoo identity, fixed, security vendor cenzic, gain control, vulnerability, company, month
 
 
 
 
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Skype Clarifies: The Bug Has Been Fixed

2007-08-22 12:54:28 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...fixed. I took that as implying that it hadn't. Now it says that it has. In a second blog on the subject , Skype is explicit: Yes, the bug has been squashed. The parameters of the P2P network have been tuned to be smarter about how similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face...
 
Tags: skype, tuned skype, p2p core, core, bug, similar situations, similar, fix, tuned
 
 
 
 
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Skype Clarifies: The Bug Has Been Fixed

2007-08-22 12:54:28 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...fixed. I took that as implying that it hadn't. Now it says that it has. In a second blog on the subject , Skype is explicit: Yes, the bug has been squashed. The parameters of the P2P network have been tuned to be smarter about how similar situations should be handled. Once we found the algorithmic fix to ensure continued operation in the face...
 
Tags: skype, tuned skype, p2p core, core, bug, similar situations, similar, fix, tuned
 
 
 
 
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Researcher: Intel fixed two critical flaws in its chips

2008-08-08 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Kris Kaspersky, a Russian researcher who plans to demonstrate flaws in Intel's chips at the Hack In A Box conference this fall, said the chip maker has told him it has now fixed two critical bugs he reported
 
Tags: critical bugs, chips, fixed, kris kaspersky, flaws, chip maker, russian researcher, intel, box conference
 
 
 
 
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Passes 1000 Vulnerabilities

2007-10-16 17:23:36 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
 
...fixed by the major open source companies. Red Hat, having forty times less employees than Microsoft, did the best job, by fixing and closing the most security bugs, also closing even minor bugs - where Microsoft didnt even fix one minor bug in the same period Seriously, I loved this post, it made me laugh out loud! Fixing more security...
 
Tags: red hat, fixed, software flaws fixed, red hat truth, team fixed, microsoft, security vulnerabilities, team, minor bugs
 
 
 
 
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WellPoint customer information exposed for a year

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2008-04-09 14:23:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fixed it and is notifying customers, spokeswoman Shannon Troughton said The nation's largest health insurer by membership is offering free credit-monitoring services for those customers, but has received no reports of identity theft or credit fraud Evan] Uh. There's the short-sighted, limited effectiveness credit-monitoring again. Credit...
 
Tags: data management vendor, vendor, data management, data, medical data, patient data, data security, data security issues, wellpoint
 
 
 
 
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Wayport Tops 10,000 McDonald's Locations

2008-04-29 09:25:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...fixed-rate charged for unlimited access by retail network partners for all the locations in their pool. This meant that partners had a fixed cost, instead of a per-session cost, and Wayport could obtain specific revenue even before usage by a partner ramped up. Wayport hasn't discussed the details of this arrangement in depth since, but has...
 
Tags: wayport, wi-fi, comprehensive wi-fi plan, local wi-fi network, att service, service, wayport offers, network, wayport caches
 
 
 
 
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Contributing To Open Source Software Security

2008-05-05 11:38:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...fixed quickly, and their fixes distributed quickly While distilling anything down to three steps makes it seem easy, this isn't necessarily the case. Given how important open source software is to Google, we've attempted to contribute to this bottom line. As Chris said before , our engineers are encouraged to contribute both software and...
 
Tags: security, source software, software, additional security contributions, background, operational security background, security professionals, security vulnerability mediation, manual security analysis
 
 
 
 
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Security Assessment Economics

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2008-06-12 21:03:59 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...Fixed-Price contracts with highly reduced services ($150 PCI assessments Now inside Government contracting, theres a fact thats not known outside of the beltway: your margins are fixed by the Government. In other words, they only allow you to have around a 13-15% margin. The way to make money is that the pie is a much bigger pie, even though...
 
Tags: assessment, market, market simply, security, commodity market, people, quality people, assessment costs, assessment results