The Top 20 Internet Security Flaws of 2004
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The vast majority of worms and other successful cyber attacks are made possible by vulnerabilities in a small number of common operating system services.
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Vulnerabilities in technology widely used for network authentication leave computers open to attack.
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InfoWorld - A security researcher has found a serious vulnerability in an aging yet widely used software program used for the Internet&#39;s addressing system, prompting the software&#39;s maintainers to retire the affected version.
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Equal-opportunity hacking Polish security researcher Michal Zalewski, known for his seemingly unending stream of browser vulnerability discoveries, has struck again. This time he's reported four flaws that are sure to get the attention of bug squashers in both Microsoft and Mozilla camps.â¦
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How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computerÂs hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet.
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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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Recent updates to IE contain a serious regression that leaves systems once more vulnerable to a flaw fixed more than two years ago, according to security researchers.
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The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute has issued its latest list of 20 most critical Internet security vulnerabilities. Web servers top the list of ten vulnerabilities for Windows-based systems, and they fall second on the list for those that are Unix- or Linux-based.
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Security flaw involving JPEG files affects at least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems.
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Experts agree: 2004 was the best of times, and the worst of times for those concerned about IT security. It was a year with high-profile arrests of virus authors, and the explosion of online crimes, from cyberextortion to identity theft, a year in which ISPs (Internet service providers) won millions in damages from spammers, and spam messages increased by 40 percent.
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Denial-of-service attacks, which take down a Web resource, are used by digital blackmailers. Part of a series on hot security topics.
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Issued by the respected Sans Institute, the Top 20 list helps organisations find out if they are closing the most commonly exploited loopholes.
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On the up-and-up Analysis Less rigor in web programming, an increasing variety of software, and restrictions on web security testing have combined to make flaws in web software the most reported security issues this year to date, according to the latest data from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project.â¦
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Security firms have reported three new security flaws in various versions of the Mozilla and Firefox Web browsers and Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client.
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Hackers could bypass security warnings and download malicious content.
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Three of the 13 computers used to manage global internet traffic are hacked overnight. It's one of the biggest attacks since 2002. By the Associated Press.
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Security researchers have found a nasty vulnerability in AOL's ICQ Pro 2003b software. AOL is recommendng that users update their software.