Secunia enters vulnerability scanning market
Secunia is muscling its way into the corporate vulnerability scanning market with a new tool that challenges established players like Tenable, Qualys and Sourcefire.
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Ryan Naraine
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And now, Month of ActiveX Bugs
After a brief lull -- and two fakes -- the "month of bugs" security projects are back, taking aim this time at flaws in ActiveX controls used by software developers.
Apple patches (CanSecWest) QuickTime hole
Apple has released QuickTime 7.1.6 to patch the code execution hole discovered by Dino Dai Zovi and exposed during the CanSecWest MacBook hijack contest.
'Highly critical' Trillian, Winamp flaws flagged
Security holes in two popular desktop software applications could put millions of computer users at risk of code execution attacks. The flaws, rated "highly critical," were flagged in the Trillian cross-platform IM program and Nullsoft's Winamp media player.
Verisign putting disposable passwords on credit cards
Verisign is expected to announce a deal with Innovative Card Technologies to equip banks and e-commerce sites with cards that work with its two-factor authentication system.
Joris Evers leaves News.com, lands at McAfee
CNET News.com security reporter Joris Evers is leaving the journalism field to take a job in McAfee's PR department.
Microsoft mulling major changes to ward off .ANI-type flaws
How did the super-critical animated cursor (.ani) vulnerability get past all the strict code review, fuzz testing and other defense-in-depth mitigations built into Windows Vista? Michael Howard has the answer and he's sharing it with us...
MacBook exploit in circulation?
An anonymous blogger claims he/she was able to monitor the network at CanSecWest security conference and snag a full packet capture of the MacBook hijack contest.
Exploit code posted for critical Adobe Photoshop flaw
Photoshoppers, be careful. Publicly available exploit code for a serious security flaw in Adobe Photoshop could allow attackers to take complete control of your Windows machine.
Mozilla extends Firefox 1.5 support
Mozilla seems to be having a hard time pulling the plug on Firefox 1.5. After today, the open-source group planned to stop shipping security and stability updates for Firefox 1.5 but now I'm hearing that support has been extended to the middle of May.