Top 20 Security Flaws Revealed
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Although companies need to protect against the flaws, many of the related information security risks and costs could be removed if businesses forced vendors to test systems before rollout, according
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Security researchers have uncovered "critical" security flaws in a version of the Linux kernel used by a large number of popular distributions.
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The US Dept. of Homeland Security and two research partners have detected significant flaws in Samba, Python, Perl, and about 180 other open source projects -- but fixes are on the way.
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At least three critical vulnerabilities are among those fixed by the most recent versions of Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird.
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As per suggestions contained in the FAQ: Herein lies a report of two identified and as-of-yet uncorrected security flaws in Scoop. &nbsp;Enough detail will be provided to assist admins in investigating and correcting the flaws, but it is the author's hope that the details of the flaws will be sufficiently obscured to prevent abuse by the undesirables. Executive summary: Through the exploitation of various unchecked privileged operations, attackers may be able to perform admin-level actions leading to data loss. &nbsp;Additionally, well-intentioned security measures combined with XSS vulnerabilities can be exercised to simulate admin-level action, resulting in data loss.
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According to the security company, the flaws mean that &quot;attackers can silently and remotely take over an SP2 machine when the user simply browses a web page&quot;.
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Latest patch for the company's database and Web applications closes almost two dozen security holes.
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Less is more scary The number of software vulnerabilities discovered last year dropped last year after several years of growth.â¦
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A leading provider of secure content management solutions, Finjan Software, has reported 10 serious security vulnerabilities in Windows XP Service Pace 2. According to the company, the attacker can remotely take control over a machine running Windows XP
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The &quot;highly critical&quot; vulnerabilities stem from a flaw in IE&#39;s drag-and-drop feature and in the browser&#39;s security zone.
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Multicasting migraine Security researchers have identified multiple unpatched vulnerabilities in a widely-used content distribution package.â¦
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Researcher finds two flaws that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private data or render a phone unusable.
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Microsoft Corp. released 10 security fixes for various products yesterday, including seven that fix flaws the company said pose the highest threat to users.
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The security research group The SANS Institute on Friday released its annual Top 20 list of the most critical Internet-related vulnerabilities to give organizations a way to prioritize their defensive efforts.
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A zero-day flaw in Firefox and third-party Windows patches turn up the heat for Net users. Plus: Buyout boom in security.
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Four new unpatched vulnerabilities have been published for Internet Explorer and Firefox, with two coming for each browser.
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 promises to raise the security bar for the sometimes beleaguered operating system. Unfortunately, one of the new features could be spoofed so that it reports misleading information