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Database security suite for Oracle Database 11g
Application Security announced that its comprehensive database security suite DbProtect will support Oracle Database 11g, now that 11g is generally available on the Microsoft …
Searching For a Cure to Web Malware
Nine out of ten new web sites visited are found through Internet searches. In fact, web search has become an essential part of doing business online with more than 80 per cent …
Top 10 vulnerabilities in Web applications in Q3 2007
Cenzic released their Application Security Trends Report for Q3, 2007. The report highlights the alarming trend among thousands of corporations and government agencies – …
Problems with the Windows random number generator
Leo Dorrendorf, Zvi Gutterman and Benny Pinkas published a paper titled “Cryptanalysis of the Random Number Generator of the Windows Operating System” that details …
Online Information Security First Person Shooter (FPS) Game
Is it against the company policy to play games while sitting in your comfortable cubicle? What if the game is computer security related? Symantec created an online FPS (first …
Advance notification on November Microsoft security patches
This is an advance notification of two security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on November 13, 2007. As posted to the MSRC blog: As part of our regularly …
New ATM card skimming detection technology
Diebold released its new Advanced Skimming Detection technology for automated teller machines. This fraud-deterrence technology engineered into Diebold’s Opteva ATMs is …
The end of computer worms?
Worms, once responsible for some of the worst virus epidemics in history, are now on the decline and gradually fading into the background. Recent figures compiled by PandaLabs …
Playstation 3 gets a web security service
Trend Micro Web Security for PS3 is expected to be available on today and will be free of charge until the end of April 2008. This service is the first globally supported Web …
Many businesses block social networking sites
Barracuda Networks announced that an analysis of data contributed by thousands of its Barracuda Web Filter customers found that 50 percent of businesses using Barracuda Web …
Know Your Enemy: Behind the Scenes of Malicious Web Servers
In our recent KYE paper on malicious web servers, we identified several hundred malicious web servers. These servers launched, so-called drive by downloads, that allowed them …
Podcast: Securing laptops at Baylor University
Jon Allen, information security officer for Baylor University, describes the project to secure laptop computers for faculty and staff members at the university. Podcast in MP3 …
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