In traditional databases, an intrusion can be easily detected, but the repercussions of the attack can lead to longer-term damage. Scientists at the Cyber Security Group at Penn State's School of Information Sciences and Technology said the...
A VM component called the ByteCode Verifier does not correctly check for the presence of certain malicious code when the applet is being loaded, meaning that an attacker could slip malicious code onto a user's PC.
Many intrusion prevention solutions have suffered from a high rate of false positives, causing some non-threatening traffic to be dropped. In early 2003, it acquired Okena, a small maker of intrusion prevention software for desktops, in a deal...
Stateful inspection of inbound vulnerabilities is not Check Point's or NetScreen's main focus," he said. Last year, network intrusion issues were the second-most common security threat, garnering 65.1 per cent of the vote.
Because the flaw allows malicious code to execute without the PC owner doing anything, such as opening a file, it gives a worm a way to self-replicate. An error in the Windows Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, client on the same systems...
It is also first blade server to use deep packet inspection software from CloudShield, the network services management and security company, IBM said. The IBM blade aims to reduce security threats, such as viruses and denial-of-service attacks, by...
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