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Mozilla fixes 10 Firefox flaws, half seen as 'critical'

2008-03-26 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Mozilla Corp. has patched 10 vulnerabilities, half of them critical, in its open-source Firefox browser and plans to provide a matching update for its Thunderbird e-mail client soon
 
Tags: thunderbird e-mail client, open-source firefox browser, critical, half, mozilla corp, plans, provide, vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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3G cellular used by nearly half of enterprises, survey says

2008-05-23 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
A new survey released by market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey reports that nearly half of all enterprises currently use 3G cellular services, and that more than one-third plan on using the 4G technology WiMAX within the next year
 
Tags: half, technology wimax, cellular services, survey, enterprises, one-third plan
 
 
 
 
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Nearly Half of IT Workers Snoop in Confidential Files

2008-06-22 14:08:33 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Nearly half of IT workers have admitted to snooping around networks to look at confidential information, according to research from software firm Cyber-Ark. "When it comes down to it, IT has essentially enabled snooping to happen. It's easy -- all you need is access to the right passwords or privileged accounts and you're privy to everything that
 
Tags: software firm cyber-ark, half, workers, confidential information, privy, passwords, access, research, networks
 
 
 
 
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The difference between half-duplex and full-duplex

2008-07-09 15:09:05 by Chris Partsenidis in WhatIs: Enterprise IT tips and expert advice
 
Our networking fundamentals expert explains how to know if you're using half-duplex or full-duplex communication in this Ask the Expert response
 
Tags: fundamentals expert explains, full-duplex communication, half-duplex, expert response
 
 
 
 
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On Elephants and Analytics

2008-06-26 12:11:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In On EP and Analytics , good friend and respected colleague Opher Etzionapplies the well known metaphor of the big elephantto describe how, if you areobserving certain specific domains of a subject, like fraud detection, then your view of thewhole elephant is biased by yourlack ofperspective of entire big elephant I ampleased that dear Opher...
 
Tags: call, call cep engines, cep, cep community, cep counterpoint, cep players, imply cep, cep rulescommunity, cep vendors
 
 
 
 
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On Elephants and Analytics

2008-06-26 12:11:30 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
In On EP and Analytics , good friend and respected colleague Opher Etzionapplies the well known metaphor of the big elephantto describe how, if you areobserving certain specific domains of a subject, like fraud detection, then your view of thewhole elephant is biased by yourlack ofperspective of the entire big elephant I ampleased that dear...
 
Tags: call, call cep engines, cep, cep community, cep counterpoint, cep players, imply cep, cep rulescommunity, cep vendors
 
 
 
 
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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report 2H07

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2008-04-23 14:03:16 by jrjones in Jeff Jones Security Blog
Yesterday, Microsoft published the new Security Intelligence Report for the 2nd half of 2007. (home page is http://www.microsoft.com/sir , and the download page is here As one of the contributors for the report, I'd like to highlight the findings summary for the Industry vuln trends Vulnerability disclosures decreased by about 5 percent in 2007,...
 
Tags: score vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, report, security intelligence report, high-severity vulnerabilities, trend, disclosures, level trend chart, vulnerability disclosures
 
 
 
 
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Month Of MySpace Bugs

2007-03-20 22:46:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
I just found this little project called Month of MySpace Bugs . This should be interesting to keep an eye on. As they state, they are only picking on MySpace (they could have found similar problems in any of the poorly crafted social networking sites) because they are trying to get attention, MySpace is extremely popular to get them even more...
 
Tags: myspace bugs, myspace, myspace hack, hack, sounds pretty light, month, half goof, half public, notoriously dickish
 
 
 
 
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Making Threat Modeling Work Better

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2007-10-17 00:23:53 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
Adam Shostack here, with part four of my threat modeling series. This post is a little less philosophical and a lot more prescriptive than the one about flow. It explains exactly how and why I changed a couple of elements of the process. The first is the brainstorming meeting, and the second is the way trust boundaries may be placed The...
 
Tags: threat, process, process helps ensure, developers threat model, database design process, security, trust boundaries, threat model, security experts
 
 
 
 
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Audit/Monitor Controls or Audit/Monitor BEFORE Control?

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2008-02-28 11:38:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -