The members divided the organisation into five working groups to focus on specific problem areas: creating awareness in home computer users and small businesses; establishing a cybersecurity early warning system; making information security part...
Stephen Toulouse, security program manager for the Microsoft Security Response Center, said: "If you are running a personal firewall, you are at reduced risk from a lot of these vulnerabilities. Marc Maiffret, chief hacking officer for eEye Digital...
But F-Secure was less concerned about the threat of worms that assess vulnerabilities. In order to produce targeted attacks this information [about the computer's vulnerabilities] would be useful. The code people write for assessing vulnerabilities...
Until then IT departments will be playing catch-up, scrambling to deal with PC security vulnerabilities as they appear - a big problem when more than 60 per cent of business-critical information sits on the desktop.
The others cover vulnerabilities in Microsoft Jscript and ART image rendering. The number of vulnerabilities mean this is Microsoft's largest clutch of patches to date, security experts said. The most important bulletin, MS06-025, is a fix for...
As the survey shows, SOA implementations are occurring in large numbers - but this could be the next big security story on the horizon, unless organisations start to clearly assess the security risks and vulnerabilities of web-enabling older...