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Can Sandboxing Stop Widget Mayhem?
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-09-19
After Finjan came out with a report saying that widgets and gadgets are all plagued with lousy security and stand ready to unleash the next wave of malware onto users' systems, at least one
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More .Gov Sites Boobytrapped
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-09-07
I had just finished writing up this story of a European country with a defense agency site that's got its database dangling out for all the world to play with, when Exploit Prevention Labs Chief
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Three New Classes of Vulnerabilities with No Cure Whatsoever
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-08-01
LAS VEGAS—I just sat down with Danny Allan, director of security researcher at Web application security company Watchfire, and he summed it up: For the first time
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Mega Apple Update Squeaks iPhone Patch In Before Black Hat Disclosure
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-08-01
LAS VEGAS—Just hours before security researcher Charlie Miller was set to disclose the iPhone's first security holes at Black Hat here on Aug.
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Excel Bugs Affect Office 2004 for Mac
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-07-13
Microsoft has updated its critical security advisory on Excel, put out on its July 10 Patch Tuesday, to include Office 2004 for Mac.
Microsoft's MS07-036 advisory covers three critical
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IBM ISS: No SDK Means No(?) iPhone Security Bugs
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-06-22
The allergy to the iPhone security analysts have acquired? IBM Internet Security Systems isn't buying it. As a matter of fact, Neel Mehta, team leader of the advanced research group at
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CA Mainframe Security Blacked Out Globally
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-06-18
Computer Associates' Top Secret security product for the mainframe blacked out worldwide on June 16, staying dark for 19 hours and bringing down financial institutions such as banks and
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Apple's Newly Patched WinSafari Springs New Leak
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-06-17
Security researcher Robert Swiecki has found yet another hole in WinSafari—this time in the newly patched 3.0.1 version that Apple hurried out in response to holes Swiecki and
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Another Hole Found in Just-Plugged Safari for Windows
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-06-14
Yet another security hole has been found in the newly released Apple Safari for Windows beta, not even a day before Apple released patches for a host of vulnerabilities found within hours of launching the beta.
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Day One Becomes 0-Day for Safari for Windows Beta
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-06-12
Apple's Safari browser for Windows beta, introduced on June 11 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference and touted as being "designed ... to be secure from day one," has a
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Firefox 3.0 to Include 'Get Me Outta Here' Malware Protection
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-06-08
In the upcoming Firefox 3.0 browser, the Mozilla Foundation is going beyond Firefox 2.0's protection of users' personal information to actually blocking Web sites that it
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New Firm Eager to Slap Patents on Security Patches
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-06-07
Security researchers, are you tired of handing your vulnerability discoveries over to your employer, as if that were what you're paid to do? Helping vendors securing their
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IBM/McAfee IPS: You Can't Both Be the Fastest Ever
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-24
IBM put out a network IPS on May 22 with inspection rate speeds of 6G bps—what it calls "unsurpassed" performance. McAfee put out an IPS on May 22 that it says is the fastest
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Pirated Security Software Worse Than None at All
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-16
You lucky duck—you scored a $20 copy of Norton AntiVirus. Not only is your PC now safe from the clutches of bad guys, but you also saved a pretty penny to boot.
Or, then again,
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Microsoft Once More Invites Hackers to Tear It Apart
By Lisa Vaas | Posted: 2007-05-11
Microsoft once again invited hackers to its home and laid out its wares to be stomped on in its fifth Blue Hat security conference, which ran May 9-10.
The Blue Hat conferences
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