Grab the new Firefox now, 2.0.0.1! 8 Security Vulnerabilities have been fixed in this last release of the year 2006.
I’m glad to see Firefox upholding their quick turnaround and rapid fixing of issues that spring up during development and improvement of their product.
Mozilla has released the first update for the Firefox 2.0 browser to fix [...]
(IN)SECURE Magazine is a freely available digital security magazine discussing some of the hottest information security topics. It can be distributed only in the form of the original non-modified PDF document.
The 9th issue of (IN)SECURE magazine was recently released, in this issue you can find the following:
Effectiveness of security by admonition: a case study of [...]
Hackers are switching targets now, companies are getting too hard to break into due to the availability of decently configured perimeter kit like firewalls and IDS.
Plus the information they do get if they manage to break in is often worthless commercially and really not worth the effort.
So instead, they target the end user, home bankers, [...]
Looks like Mozilla is toughening it’s stance on security, people have been putting it down lately, especially those from the Microsoft camp as there have been a few flaws.
But well, it’s still not part of the operating system, the flaws are generally fixed within a couple of days and the patching system is simple and [...]
It makes sense really, the paranoia that quickly infected every corner of the ‘Western’ world had to be cashed in on by somebody, tada! The security industry of course.
During the Cold War, Canada’s National Optics Institute developed a system to detect which type of enemy tank or fighter jet was approaching. After the Soviet Union’s [...]
Ahah! More government cover-ups? This one was a while back too.
Digging on those archives right now yah.
A hacker stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department’s nuclear weapons agency, scary eh?
The US government security really does scare me sometimes, their internal departments have some of [...]
We are happy to announce that the 1.2.6 (christine) release of the Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) is available.
BASE is the Basic Analysis and Security Engine. It is based on the code from the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases (ACID) project. This application provides a web front-end to query and analyze the alerts [...]
Microsoft has taken a bit of a leap with the integration of .net into SQL Server, and a lot of developers(Myself included) are worrying about what security implications this could have. DevX.com have taken an in-depth look into the guts of it, and spilled them onto a page for us all to look at.
CAS [...]
I found a useful resource containing a whole list of academic papers on web-application security.
This list represents an attempt to collect academic papers on the subject of Web application security sorted by the year of publication.
Hacking web applications has become a big thing in the last 5 years, just look at the number of holes [...]
So over a month down the line, our SQL2005 upgrade project should now be in the workable prototype stage. But as with all things that “should” be(More security in IE, Great Britain ruling the world and my kitchen being fitted), it’s not, it’s not even close. On top of this our company is [...]
