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Clerical Medical Europe Deploying Entrust GetAccess to Secure Financial Services Portal
Web access control solution will enable up to 35,000 brokers and independent financial advisors to securely perform online transactions with 500,000+ customers throughout …
New Worm Installs Security Patches
F-Secure has analysed a new Windows network worm, known as Welchi or Nachi. This worm is similar to the Lovsan or Blaster worm, which has been spreading massively in the …
PointGuard: Protecting Pointers From Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Despite numerous security technologies crafted to resist buffer overflow vulnerabilities, buffer overflows continue to be the dominant form of software security vulnerability. …
Next Stage of Blaster Worm to Threaten Service Availability
Captus Provides TLIDSâ„? Policy Templates to Prevent Breach woodland, Calif., August 15, 2003 – For companies that fell victim to or survived the latest worm …
Worm Attack Succeeds and Fails at the Same Time
Windows 2000 and XP machines that get infected after this moment will try to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack against Microsoft’s windowsupdate.com. …
New Trojan Disguised as Blaster Worm Fix
Sophos has today updated its anti-virus software to protect against the new Graybird Trojan (Troj/Graybird-A). Sophos’s virus lab has seen an example of the backdoor …
Finjan Software Protects Enterprises and Home Users From New Variants Of Lovsan Worm
– Owners of SurfinShield Corporate and SurfinGuard Pro Products Will Not Require Anti-Virus Signature File Updates – SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ — …
Ubizen Warns Of Second Vulnerability Post-Blaster – With No Patch
Ubizen, Europe’s leading managed security service provider (MSSP), is warning its customers of a second critical vulnerability in versions of Microsoft Windows. This …
Network Associates’ HackerWatch.org Reports Over One Million Systems Infected by the Lovsan Worm
McAfee Security Consumer Experts Recommend Users Employ Both Anti-Virus and Personal Firewall Solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Network …
Blaster Only Set to Stun
Once again, it appears that the worm authors had caught system administrators with their trousers down. Despite the availability of a patch since mid-July to fix the …
Statement Regarding GNU FTP Site Hack
To the Free Software Community: Summary * gnuftp, the FTP server for the GNU project was root compromised. A replacement machine was rolled out in its place on the morning …
interMute Introduces SpySubtract to Detect and Destroy Spyware and Stop Spread of Blaster Worm to Consumer and Small Business PCs
New Internet Security Software Protects Thousands of Computers Worldwide Braintree, Mass. — August 13, 2003 — interMute, Inc., developer of award winning AdSubtract …
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