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VMware Player Multiple Vulnerabilities Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Monday, 01 September 2008 21:49

VMware has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in VMware Player, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a user's system
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Ten Year old Vulnerability in Border Gateway Protocol Exposed Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Wednesday, 27 August 2008 09:21

Border Gateway Protocol allows for the exchange of information between networks of autonomous systems. BGP maintains a table of available IP networks to find the most efficient route for internet traffic. In a presentation, Pilosov and Kapela demonstrated how a user's BGP traffic could be hijacked, redirected, and then allow supposedly secure communications to be intercepted at the Defcon security conference

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Hard Disk Encryption is Just a Hurdle Now? Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Monday, 25 August 2008 09:49

Microsoft, Intel, HP, Lenovo and Leading Vendors Are Affected by a New Vulnerability That Allows Attackers to Bypass Hard-Disk Encryption Software, System Boot Passwords and Steal Confidential Data.
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FEMA phones hacked; calls made to Mideast, Asia Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 15:07

WASHINGTON - A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia. The hacker made more than 400 calls on a Federal Emergency Management Agency voicemail system in Emmitsburg, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, according to FEMA spokesman Tom Olshanski.
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Tomcat vulnerability Print E-mail
Written by Rebecca Mints   
Wednesday, 20 August 2008 11:48

US-CERT warns of Tomcat vulnerability. The US-CERT warns of a directory traversal issue in Apache Tomcat which could allow access to arbitrary files on the server. The Apache Foundation have released updates to address this vulnerability.

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