Stateful inspection of inbound vulnerabilities is not Check Point's or NetScreen's main focus," he said. The better we get at stopping attacks, the more creative hackers get at writing new ones. In December, a Danish security firm alerted the...
Positive said that attack programs that use the exploit to get around Windows XP Service Pack 2 protections work reliably, allowing intruders to introduce malicious code onto machines using a second vulnerability that would otherwise not work on...
Brown said: "We try to exploit vulnerabilities by sending malformed protocol messages to open ports. They will use exploit code for known vulnerabilities found on the internet, or write their own exploit code.
New technology or new end user behaviours tend to bring additional threat vectors and so it proved with the 'whole web 2.0 thing'. So for example, criminals can target anybody who has expressed a preference for a particular band or sports team or...
While VoIP has increased the number of people able to exploit a corporate phone system, the tools and expertise to protect the technology have also been improved. They need to have a rigorous patching regime as new vulnerabilities are found in VoIP...
Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, recently rejoined the antivirus vendor from fellow Finnish company Nokia.silicon.com recently caught up with Alkio to discuss the security landscape, how governments should handle hackers, the need for a dot-bank...