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Prize for zero-day Windows flaws set at $20,000

2008-01-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b1bc3c in Network World on Security
 
A security research company is offering $20,000 for information on undisclosed security flaws in Microsoft's Windows OS
 
 
 
 
 
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Oracle fixes critical flaws in quarterly update

2008-01-16 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b73284 in Network World on Security
 
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Attacks aimed at Adobe Reader, Acrobat flaws intensify

2008-02-11 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b38dc4 in Network World on Security
 
The flaws disclosed last week in Adobe System's Reader and Acrobat programs have been used to exploit computers since at least January via malicious banner advertisements, security analysts are reporting
 
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Flaws of Identity Management: Usability and Security Challenges

2008-05-22 06:22:46 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
Identity management systems' scale and complexity, combined with the privacy and security requirements demanded of them, create steep challenges for usability. In this article, the authors posit seven flaws or design challenges that must be met for the general public to accept and use identity management systems
 
 
 
 
 
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Tillian IM, Facebook and Apple iCal flaws

2008-05-26 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
...flaws in each were discoverd. Fortunately, for Trillian users an update is available. But Facebook and iCal users are still waiting for fixes. Facebook users could have their accounts compromised through a password capture script. iCal is vulnerable to a critical flaw that was disclosed by Core Security after Apple dragged its feet over a patch
 
 
 
 
 
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Ruby creators warn of serious flaws

2008-06-24 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b45688 in Network World on Security
 
The Ruby programming language, which has become popular as the basis for Web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, contains serious security flaws that could allow attackers to take over an organization's Web server, according to the Ruby development team
 
 
 
 
 
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On virtualisation

2007-05-29 16:20:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...flaws, such as buffer overflows, in emulated hardware devices. One example of this is missing bounds checking in bitblt routines , which are used for moving rectangular blocks of data around the display. If exploited, by specifying pathological parameters for the operation, this could lead to an attacker compromising the virtual machine...
 
 
 
 
 
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Apple Patches for Apache, Flash and More

2008-05-30 10:20:00 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...flaws amount to, at most, cross-site scripting attacks, the Flash Player flaws could allow a malicious Flash file (SWF) to execute on the victims system, Apple stated in its security advisory The company also fixed five vulnerabilities in its ImageIO component that could allow denial-of-service attacks, information leakage, and in one case,...
 
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...flaws than the number of open software flaws 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...