Microsoft has warned users of its IIS server software of another raft of vulnerabilities. The versions affected by the buffer overflow flaw are IIS 4 and 5 which are running on the millennium edition and NT4.
The incident nearly embodies a worst-case scenario for how a vulnerability should be discovered. The flaw, known as a buffer overflow, is in a component of the software that handles the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV...
A few years ago it was IIS, then SQL Server, then RPC, now it's the Windows Graphics Engine," he said. IIS is Internet Information Services (the web server part of Windows Server), SQL Server is Microsoft's database product, and RPC is the Remote...
Ware said in his Friday order that the government demonstrated a "substantial need" for Google's random URL sample, which it plans to run through filtering software to test the software's anti-pornography filtering prowess as the DoJ prepares to...
The application creates a rolling time line of events based on your actions. CIW's new scenario is a pharmaceutical company that interacts with many "beyond the firewall" components, such as research labs; government agencies requiring compliance...
Cyber crooks have started exploiting a flaw in the Windows Shell only days after sample attack code for the vulnerability surfaced. The Windows Shell flaw was found almost two months ago but sample attack code became available only recently.