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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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Updated your Web browser lately? Ever? If not, you and 637 million other Net surfers with outdated, insecure browsers are inviting criminal hackers into your computer, researchers warn.Using Internet Explorer? You're likely to be one of the biggest offenders.The researchers wanted to know why so many recent attacks have been ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Domino's Pizza is to use Voltage Security's Secure-mail encryption package to protect internal and external company e-mails.The move is part of a corporate-wide data loss prevention initiative to avoid accidental loss of private or proprietary information, said Karl Anderson, network security manager for the pizza maker."We realised that e-mails being ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
With the cold an flu season most definitely upon us, there is much that the common cold can show us about network intrusion and what can happen once a single compromise has taken place.As you sniffle and blink your way through this article, think of how your computer responds to ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Mozilla team has fixed a total of twelve security problems in its new version 2.0.0.15 of Firefox. Five are classed as critical, i.e. could allow the injection of external code. The development team has not yet revealed the details behind each patch – the links to the specific bug ...
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