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Video: Dissecting the Conficker worm

Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, talks about the Conficker worm. A Conficker removal tool is available for download here.

How to exploit the SIP Digest Leak vulnerability

The SIP Digest Leak is a vulnerability that affects a large number of SIP Phones, including both hardware and software IP Phones as well as phone adapters (VoIP to analogue). …

Snort Security Platform (SnortSP) 3.0 Beta

This is the first beta release built on the new Snort 3.0 architecture which consists of two primary components: a software platform called the Snort Security Platform …

Critical vulnerabilities in Sun Calendar Express

Core Security Technologies has issued an advisory disclosing critical vulnerabilities that could affect large numbers of end users and organizations using Sun’s Java …

World’s first fingerprint-enabled netbook

The new ASUS Eee PC 1004DN is the first netbook to integrate a fingerprint sensor, AuthenTec’s small form factor AES1610. At a lightweight 3.2 pounds (1.45 kilograms), …

Solaris platform with Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series

The Solaris platform, including the Solaris 10 Operating System and OpenSolaris, has been extended to provide performance, energy efficiency and reliability enhancements for …

The much-feared reactivation of Conficker on April 1 goes off without a bang

The much-feared reactivation of the Conficker virus, forecast for April 1, has yet to cause massive infections. At 00:00h on April 1, Conficker started to generate 50,000 new …

Conficker’s connection to April 1st Q&A

F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen wrote a thorough Q&A on the importance of April 1st for Conficker worm. Q: I heard something really bad is going to happen on the Internet …

Conficker worm discussion: threats and possible solutions

Sophos techies recorded a podcast on the “popular” Conficker worm. They have added some related images to the audio track, so the podcast was released in a video format.

Report: Building in security in government software

Fortify released a new report, “Building in Security in Government Software,” which describes the growing threat of application security attacks and key steps …

SafeNet unveils IPsec VPN Security solution for Android platform

SafeNet announced the availability of its IPsec VPN security solution, QuickSec/IPsec, for the Open Mobile Handset Alliance’s (OHA) Android platform. The integration of …

Gartner: Worldwide IT spending to decline 3.8% in 2009

The unprecedented decline of the global economy is impacting the IT industry with worldwide IT spending forecast to total $3.2 trillion in 2009, a 3.8 per cent decline from …

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