Friday, July 11th, 2008
Antivirus software vendor Sophos has reported the discovery of a DoS vulnerability in some of its products. According to the security advisory, specially crafted attachments to emails can bring down Sophos E-mail Appliance, Pure Message for UNIX and Sophos Anti-Virus Interface (SAVI). For the attack to succeed, the MIME attachment ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
One of the members of the Master Mind Security Panel during the ITEC show in Charlotte, Dan Colby, made a great point. Basically, he said "quit using passwords."Colby is president and CEO of Pinstripe, an application development and consulting company in Charlotte. They provide all the IT services for many ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
On Thursday, Check Point Software Technologies released updated versions of all its ZoneAlarm products, addressing an incompatibility with a patch Microsoft released earlier this week.The fix requires ZoneAlarm users to download the latest version, 7.0.438.000, from its site. A reboot is required to complete installation.Since Tuesday, ZoneAlarm customers have complained ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Sun Microsystems has issued updates for Java to eliminate many errors and vulnerabilities in the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). These include DoS vulnerabilities, buffer overflows and other errors that could cause a crash or allow a crafted applet to access certain resources, the filing ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The first stage of penetration testing is usually passive information gathering and enumeration (active information gathering). This is where tools like dnsenum come in, the purpose of DNSenum is to gather as much information as possible about a domain.
The program currently performs the following operations:
1. Get the host’s addresse (A ...
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