Thousands of travellers were left stranded at Zurich yesterday after the recently unveiled air traffic control system crashed. The problems first appeared in the early hours of Tuesday morning not long after the national air traffic control service...
Sans said the document had been produced because only a limited number of security holes were exploited by the bulk of virus attacks. The top 20 includes specific sections on general vulnerabilities, Windows vulnerabilities and Unix vulnerabilities.
Stateful inspection of inbound vulnerabilities is not Check Point's or NetScreen's main focus," he said. Browser-based security threats are on the rise and may pose the next significant risk to information technology operations, according to a...
We're most concerned with 'wormable' vulnerabilities - ones that can be exploited using worms, as they have the largest impact on business. For example, Code Red exploited a vulnerability in MS IIS web service software - we would exploit the same...
All of the 13 Office-related vulnerabilities addressed by Tuesday's patches can be exploited by crafting a malicious Office document, according to Microsoft's security alerts. This means the "mailslot" flaw could be exploited to launch a worm that...
Another of this month's flaws that could be exploited without any user interaction lies in the Windows Domain Name System (DNS) client, which is used to help translate URLs into numerical IP addresses.
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