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Study: 40 Percent of Web Surfers Using Leaky, Vintage Browsers

July 2, 2008

If the food industry ran its business like the Internet browsing software industry, then consumers would be hurling lawsuits like bad tomatoes at the companies that give us Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. The comparison is existent in a wide-ranging new study showing that approximately 40 per...

DVD Jon Wins Bragging Rights for iPhone Activation Hack

July 5, 2007

The notorious Norwegian hacker, Jon Lech Johansen -- better known as "DVD Jon" for releasing code that broke DVD copy protection in the late 1990s -- has drawn first blood with the iPhone. Johansen has posted a workaround on the Internet that allows iPhone owners to use their devices in a limited fa...

Report: Microsoft XML Exploit Unpatched and in the Wild

November 8, 2006

A vulnerability in Microsoft's XML HTTP request-handling can be exploited via an ActiveX control through a Web browser -- specifically Internet Explorer -- according to IBM's Internet Security Systems, which claims to have originally identified the flaw. The vulnerability, which is currently being l...

Macs, Hackers and the Computer Security Game

November 4, 2006

Computer security is a game of leapfrog in which vendors plug certain vulnerabilities and hackers find new ones. This game has lead to a new platform -- the Macintosh -- becoming the apple of some hackers' eyes. "Recently, there has been a lot of interest among the hacking community in attacking the...

The Changing Faces of Internet Security Threats, Part 2

October 21, 2006

As the nature of Internet threats has morphed, IT systems professionals and security providers have adapted their response tactics. Increasingly, organizations are developing comprehensive security strategies and implementing a variety of online and on-demand security applications and services acros...

McAfee Security Flaw Highlights Need for Updates

March 21, 2005

Intrusion detection and prevention systems provider Internet Security Systems (ISS) issued a "protection advisory" targeting older versions of McAfee's anti-virus software engine last Thursday. Attackers are able to trigger a stack overflow within the process importing the McAfee AntiVirus Library,...

Witty.A Worm Targets BlackICE Firewall Vulnerability

March 22, 2004

A computer worm that targets antivirus or firewall protection is nothing new, but the most recent case of a direct attack against computer defenses unfolded with alarming speed, less than two days after vulnerabilities in Internet Security Systems' BlackICE and RealSecure software were disclosed. As...

Tech Companies Team Up for Internet Security

February 26, 2004

With a mission squarely focused on securing the Internet through public policy, private industry participation and education, a dozen top security companies have formed the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, announced at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. The companies, including...

The State of Software Security: An Interview with ISS Founder and CTO Chris Klaus

December 3, 2003

Chris Klaus, the founder and chief technology officer of Internet Security Systems, was recently appointed to cochair the National Common Criteria Task Force. The task force will examine ways to improve "common criteria," a set of standards developed by a coalition of nations to help ensure that sof...

ISS Releases First of New Intrusion Prevention Boxes

November 18, 2003

Marking a trend in which large security players are among the last to the party, Internet Security Systems released the first of its new Proventia G Series intrusion-prevention appliances this week, promising proactive protection and ease of use. Atlanta-based ISS said the G200 -- the first of its i...

Network Security Warnings Ring Out

July 16, 2003

Several computer and Internet security experts warned this week that while threats are on the rise and the lag time between vulnerability and attack is shrinking, government and the private sector have failed to team effectively on network security, leaving infrastructure and systems susceptible. In...

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