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What is a Remote Network Risk Assessment? Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Monday, 28 April 2008 18:00

A remote network risk assessment is a new and exciting methodology for conducting our internal network risk assessement. We perform the same stringent tests and evalutions of your internal network that are involved in our internal network risk assessment, but we do it via the Web rather than physically coming to your place of business.
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Vulnerability in KHTML Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Sunday, 27 April 2008 18:00

The processing of a carefully crafted PNG image could allow for a KHTML library program to crash or even allow malware to be injected, according to the developers of KDE. The problem lies with a potential buffer overload. Thankfully a source code patch has been released.
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ISPs Affected By New XSS Attack Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Thursday, 24 April 2008 18:00

According to IOActive, a security research firm, some ISPs may be leaving their users open to cross-site scripting attacks. The problem lies in the fact that some ISPs, such as Earthlink, are collecting revenue from misspelled URLs by utilizing advertising servers. This has resulted in hackers performing phishing attacks on unsuspecting users.
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Kudos Charlie Miller? Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:00

Apple has been known to take their time when getting fixes out to users in security updates long after patches for open source software have been released. And this is for open source software that is included with Mac OS X. A good example of this is the Mac OS X 10.5.2 update. And it just so happened this is also the case with Charlie Miller, the gentleman that hacked a Mac at the CanSecWest security conference and won $10,000 and a MacBook Air in the PWN2OWN contest.
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Vulnerability in Windows kernel Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:02

A security advisory has been issued by Microsoft addressing a vulnerability in the Windows kernel that uses which logged-in users may increase their privileges on the system, which would lead to being able to take control of it. The affected systems are Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
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