This means a high number of vulnerable systems out on the internet," said Brian Dunphy, director of managed security services for security software company Symantec. There are more attack vectors and more people that could be affected by this...
The center, which tracks attacks and worms by analysing firewall records, indicated that would-be intruders are scanning companies for vulnerable systems, and when they find such systems, they attack.
Oliver Friedrichs, senior director of Symantec's security response centre, said three vulnerabilities could lead to a Sasser-like worm, but the danger is lessened by the fact that the vulnerable services are not started by default on most versions...
The threat posed by a critical flaw in Internet Explorer has been ratcheted up by the release of a program designed to exploit the vulnerability, security researchers warned on Thursday. The vulnerability, which was made public on Tuesday, could be...
Symantec said in an advisory: "The impact of this vulnerability is exaggerated by the fact that many email and other traffic routing gateways make use of file-scanning utilities that make use of the vulnerable library.
Any bugs in similar apps you are using could make your network vulnerable to malicious users. Some of its characteristics also leave it vulnerable to hackers, such as using text for encoding and SIP extensions that can create security holes.