Saturday, November 29th, 2008
We've seen some speculation recently about a purported security vulnerability in Gmail and the theft of several website owners' domains by unauthorized third parties. At Google we're committed to providing secure products, and we mounted an immediate investigation. Our results indicate no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability.
With help from affected ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
The pre-release version 1.0.5 of Wireshark, the network protocol analyser (or "packet sniffer"), has eliminated a vulnerability that could make it crash. It is reported that the error occurs during the analysis of over-long SMTP requests to a server. When the final version 1.0.5 will appear is still unknown, but ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
An Austrian security vendor has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista that it says could possibly allow an attacker to run unauthorized code on a PC.
The problem is rooted in the Device IO Control, which handles internal device communication. Researchers at Phion have found two different ways to cause a ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
According to a report by VoIPshield, a VoIP security service provider, Microsoft's Office Communications Server (OCS), Office Communicator and Windows Messenger contain vulnerabilities that can be exploited for Denial of Service attacks. The applications can be crashed using specially crafted packets.
VoIPshield does not want to release more detailed information until ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
According to the UK-based Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), an error in the secure shell protocol (SSH) specification can in rare cases be exploited to reconstruct part of the plain text. According to their description of the error, the standard OpenSSH configuration allows 32 bits of plain ...
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