New Opera v9.51 fixes couple of security issues

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

A new version of Opera (v9.51) has been released. It fixes couple of security vulnerabilities and some stability issues. One of the fixed issues includes arbitrary code execution but the exploit has not been published yet.Source:http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4666&rss

Microsoft Unveils New Internet Explorer Security Features

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Internet Explorer's getting a little bit safer. Microsoft Wednesday unveiled significant new security features that will be in the next version of the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, currently in public beta testing. From Microsoft's standpoint, any improvement in security is a plus, and the company seems to be taking ...

Ratproxy – Passive Web Application Security Assessment Tool

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized specifically for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic annotation, of potential problems and security-relevant design patterns based on the ...

Firefox 2.0.0.15 is out

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

For those of you that haven't yet made the move to Firefox 3.0, the Mozilla folks have released Firefox 2.0.0.15 which according to the release notes link (see below) fixes a security vulnerability. However, the "known vulnerabilities" page (linked from the release notes page) doesn't include any info (yet) ...

Secure SQL Server from SQL injection attacks

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

SQL injection attacks are probably the most common way for hackers to strike Internet-facing SQL Server databases. No matter how secure your network is or how many firewalls you have in place, any application that uses dynamic SQL and allows for unchecked user input to be passed to the database ...