Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
The judge hearing Viacom's $1 billion copyright infringement claim against Google has ordered its YouTube unit to provide user histories.Google has to turn over millions of videos it has removed from the video-sharing site, user login IDs, records showing when users watched videos, their IP addresses, and numbers that identify ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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