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Thursday, 02 October 2008 09:53 |
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Security researchers in Sweden have discovered a somewhat critical flaw in the way TCP/IP stacks have been implemented across the majority of Operating Systems and IP enabled devices that could result in a Denial of Service. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 11:59 |
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Apple released yesterday an update for Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the update addresses a number of known vulnerabilities that affect Java. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 22:45 |
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Cisco has released a bundle of security advisories and fixes for this month. The update includes a number of fixes to address Denial of Service problems within Cisco products as well as fix for a device compromise vulnerability. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 22:22 |
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is one of the most commonly used formats used by todays enterprises for information exchange, from brochures to reports it can be found anywhere. With native readers for almost every mainstream Desktop platform and many mobile platforms. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 12:05 |
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It seems you cannot put a rogue network provider down. Intercage the not so legit network provider is back, this time with a new upstream provider. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 10:12 |
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The Mozilla team have released a new version of Firefox, there are releases for Firefox 3.0.x and 2.0.0.x, both addressing a number of issues. However the release for the 2.0.0.x series of Firefox actually fixes a couple of issues that are specific to that series of Firefox. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 11:19 |
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Since the advent of a mobile phone with some kind of UNIX on it such as a Linux or OS X (iPhone) IT Security types have been trying to drop penetration testing tools on there so they can look cool while owning someone's network from their phone. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 21:59 |
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California based network provider Intercage has finally gone dark after weeks of criticism that is had become home for many sites engaged in phishing, malware distribution and various other illegal activities. |
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Sunday, 21 September 2008 11:00 |
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It seems some malware distributors are attempting to exploit the popularity of the iPhone and games for the iPhone to spread some nasty Windows malware. |
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 18:32 |
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There has been a bumper release of Security Fixes by Apple in the last week, yesterday saw the latest in the line of these was Apple’s release of 10.5.5 which included Security Update 2008-006. |
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008 10:50 |
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Well it is a week since the last round of patches from Microsoft and as predicted the Malware authors have got their hands on working exploits for at least one of the issues acknowledged last week. |
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Saturday, 13 September 2008 06:36 |
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The Supreme Court in Virginia has overturned the conviction of the AOL Spammer Jeremy Jaynes, at the same time the court has rendered Virginia without any Anti-SPAM law by ruling it was unlawful. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 21:43 |
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Well Apple have released today the latest release of their iPhone OS, this major release is tagged as version 2.1 and as well as adding some features and squashing some bugs also fixes some security issues. |
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Friday, 12 September 2008 11:59 |
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It seems that your iPhone maybe watching everything you do, well at least everything you are doing on it. |
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008 00:01 |
So MXI Security produce a line of 'secure' USB Memory sticks, such as the Stealth MXP they seemed pretty hot given they boast AES encryption in specially designed and developed hardware. Have undertaken and passed FIPS-140-2 certification, so they are considered by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) safe for use within the Federal Government. |
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