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Business Execution: Executive Buyer's Guide
There's a big difference between strategy and execution. Take a look at this white paper to learn how you can take your business strategies into the real world with the help of assets you already...
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Google engineers claim that Chrome PWN bug is a Flash bug
Yesterday I reported that security firm VUPEN claimed to have a Google Chrome browser exploit that bypassed the browser's sandbox and Windows ASLR and DEP security measures. Today Google engineers...
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The one security tool every Windows user should know about
Microsoft's Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a simple but powerful configuration utility that allows you to harden applications that weren't originally designed to take advantage...
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Microsoft's anti-exploit toolkit can help mitigate PDF zero-day attacks
Microsoft is pushing its new Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) as a temporary mitigation for the ongoing attacks against a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's PDF Reader/Acrobat products.
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Microsoft ships anti-exploit tool for IT admins
The tool, called Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) works by applying security mitigation technologies to arbitrary applications to block against exploitation through common attack vectors.
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Hacker exploits IE8 on Windows 7 to win Pwn2Own
Jumping through a series of anti-exploit roadblocks, Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil hacked into a fully patched 64-bit Windows 7 machine using a pair of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities.
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Googler ships exploit to defeat DEP
A prominent security researcher has released an exploit that uses a new technique to defeat ALSR + DEP on Microsoft's Windows operating system.
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Microsoft confirms plan to release out-of-band IE update
Microsoft confirmed today that it plans to release an out-of-band security update to address a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The update is undergoing testing now.
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Microsoft readies emergency IE patch to counter public exploits
The out-of-band update will be released once the company is satisfied that it has been properly tested against all affected versions of Windows.
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Opera plugs security holes; adds ASLR, DEP support
Opera Software has shipped a high-priority security patch for its flagship Web browser to plug at least three vulnerabilities that expose Windows users to code execution and cross-domain...
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Windows broken ... I'm surprised it took this long
So, in a stroke, two security researchers (Mark Dowd of IBM and Alexander Sotirov or VMware) at Black Hat have set browser security back 10 years and rendered Vista's security have been rendered...
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Apple bolsters QuickTime defenses... or do they?
A couple of great articles came out recently, one from Ryan Naraine and one from our very own Larry Dignan, about some of the defenses that Apple is trying to build into QuickTime to defend Vista...
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Interview with the Vista Pwn2Own contest winners
Our coverage of the Pwn2Own contest has received a lot of attention, so I thought it would make sense to go straight to the source of the Adobe Flash exploit to get some first-hand accounts of...
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More details on the Pwn2Own Flash flaw that won the Vista machine
So, I've been pretty surprised by the response to the discussion of the Flash flaw that allowed the Vista machine to be compromised in the Pwn2Own contest. I'm working on getting an interview...
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Exploitation is Still Possible as Third-Parties Neglect to Implement Vista Security Features
Consider this, Microsoft spends huge amounts of dollars and manpower creating protections for the Vista operating system, yet we still have old school vulnerabilities. Why? The answer is simple...
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HP introduces the Net-Zero Datacenter
HP Labs research into the Net-Zero Energy Datacenter has implications for more efficient management and operation of existing datacenters.
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Where's Hadoop for Microsoft's Windows Server?
Microsoft and Hortonworks' implementation of the Hadoop big-data framework for Azure is in the midst of testing. But where's the promised Windows Server implementation?
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Torti Gallas a Cisco and NetApp Customer Profile
Torti Gallas says that overhauling your IT infrastructure doesn't need to be a big ordeal. Technologies from Cisco, NetApp and VMware were a foundation the company is using to support its growth.
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Big Data in NYC is all business, and that's a good thing
At the NYC Data Business Meetup, constituencies congregate to foster Big Data, beyond its mere technology.
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Sweet irony: EU imposes cookie law, ignores own rules
You would think an executive body of 27 member states that dictates part of their respective laws would adhere to its own? Think again.
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Cloud Computing: Is it right for you?
How do you know if cloud computing makes sense for your organization? And if it makes sense for your organization what sort of services should you buy into? Here are the questions to ask.
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