Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Network administrators and security specialists have long had tools and software for analyzing the streams of traffic that course through company systems, but now a Marlborough, Massachusetts, startup wants to make the process a lot easier.
Dejavu Technologies recently released TrafficScape, an appliance that grabs network packets and converts them into ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
The Public Interest Registry will announce today that it has begun cryptographically signing the .org top-level domain using DNS security extensions known as DNSSEC.
DNSSEC is an emerging standard that prevents spoofing attacks by letting Web sites verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption.
DNSSEC ...
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Researchers at Websense have discovered a mass injection attack that is redirecting Web browsers to a malware-bearing site.
According to a weekend report by researchers at Websense, thousands of legitimate Web sites have been discovered to be injected with malicious Javascript, obfuscated code that leads to an active exploit site.
"The active ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Apple has released versions 8.2 of iTunes and 7.6.2 of QuickTime to address a series of vulnerabilities, mostly in QuickTime.
The one iTunes vulnerability is a stack overflow in parsing "itms:" URLs which can lead to a DOS or arbitrary code execution. 10 vulnerabilities in QuickTime are all of a type ...
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Saturday, May 30th, 2009
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General ...
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