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- Wi-Fi Security is always one step behind
- Maintaining security is the irresolvable angst that all networkâ€"wired and wirelessâ€"administrators feel. So why focus on Wi-Fi security? To explain, I wanted to highlight a very interesting chat transcript about wireless security on NetworkWorld. The chat features an electronic hero/mentor of mine and renowned wireless security expert, Joshua Wright. The...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Security news roundup: February 17
- Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which covers a serious vulnerability fixed in ClamAV, FreeBSD closing a couple of vulnerabilities, additional flaws discovered in Cisco IP telephony products, critical vulnerabilities found in Adobe Flash Media Server, and how Vista SP1 proves to be a low hurdle to...
- Blog posts 2008-02-17
- Security threats in a unified world
- Amid all the excitement surrounding the unification of our communications technologies, the issue of security sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. Maybe some are assuming that the threats are the "same old, same old" that plague those same communications methods in their more stand-alone forms. But it's that and more....
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- Security news roundup: February 10
- Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which covers a vulnerability in the multiuser version of the popular WordPress, a new release of the Windows client for Skype that fixes several vulnerabilities, critical vulnerabilities found in Sun's Java Runtime Environment, a memory corruption vulnerability found in IBM's DB2...
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Security news roundup: November 30
- Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which covers a new QuickTime bug that affects both XP and Vista, a new release of FireFox, security updates for FreeBSD, the release of Microsoft Exchange SP1, the official acknowledgement by Cisco of flaws in its VoIP phones, new versions of...
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- Defend your network from slow scanning
- There are a lot of security tools out there that will scan a wide range of ports and IP addresses. An intrusion detection system IDS will generally catch this type of broad scanning. It will then shut it down by blocking the source IP address or alerting someone to the...
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Security news roundup: November 13
- Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts, which covers a new firmware update for the iPhone and iPod Touch, a new version of Miranda IM that fixes certain security issues, and a privilege escalation vulnerability in WinPcap. Apple closes TIFF hole in iPhone ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Protect corporate data with these physical security precautions
- Not all attacks on your organization's data come across the network. It's imperative that companies remember that maintaining an "iron-clad" network security program doesn't immunize them against the physical assault or theft of data and the networked resources that contain that data. Attackers can be from outside...
- Blog posts 2007-10-18
- Security holes found in forensics software
- According to researchers with iSEC Partners, forensics software that are commonly used by the police, as well as enterprise security personnel, is not as secure as it should be. iSEC Partners has spent the past six months investigating two forensic investigation programs: Guidance Software's EnCase and as...
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Redundant Servlets Vulnerable to XSS Attack (Un-deploy Tomcat documentation
- Vulnerability Description: The remote web server includes an example JSP application (/tomcat-docs/) that fails to sanitise user-supplied input before using it to generate dynamic content in an error page. An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to leverage this issue to inject arbitrary HTML or script code into a user's...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- Redundant Servlets Vulnerable to XSS Attack
- Vulnerability Description: The remote web server includes an example JSP application (/tomcat-docs/) that fails to sanitise user-supplied input before using it to generate dynamic content in an error page. An unauthenticated remote attacker may be able to leverage this issue to inject arbitrary HTML or script code into a user's...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-20
- VoIP threats: Beyond eavesdropping
- When it comes to phone calls, privacy is the most common security concern. Recently, we discussed how hackers can eavesdrop on VoIP calls to discover the content of participants' conversations. But eavesdropping isn't the only -- or, in some cases, even the most serious -- security risk you face when...
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- Mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack
- There's a great variety of attacks and hacks that black hats can perpetrate on your network. Fortunately, you can prevent most of them using an assortment of security measures.However, a distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS is an entirely different story. You can't thwart a DDoS attack -- they attack an IP...
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Use the revised OWASP Top Ten to secure your Web applications -- Part 7
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.The seventh installment in the 2007 OWASP Top 10 series takes a look at broken authentication and session management vulnerabilities. Tom Olzak explains the nature of this weakness followed by recommendations for protecting Web applications from attacks related to this security problem.Broken...
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Lock it down: Use the revised OWASP Top Ten to secure your Web applications -- Part 4
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Maliciousfile execution, also listed as InsecureRemote File Include in the OWASP Top Ten, is a vulnerability caused by direct use orconcatenation of unvalidated input into file or stream functions. This weaknessis found in many Web applications, but it is preventable by coding...
- Technical articles 2007-04-02
- Lock it down: Use the revised OWASP Top Ten to secure your Web applications -- Part 2
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Inthis second installment in a series on the 2007 OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities, we'lllook at the clear leader in the Web application vulnerability space -- crosssite scripting XSS. XSS vulnerabilities have been around for some time. However,the business risk associated with XSS...
- Technical articles 2007-03-05
- Microsoft confirms Vista Speech Recognition remote execution flaw
- After my initial reports on the first Vista Remote Exploit, a Microsoft spokesperson responded to me with the following message.Thanks for your patience as I looked into this. I heard back from the folks at the MSRC, and they let me know that Microsoft is investigating public reports of a...
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- High volume attackers to be exposed
- The Web Honeynet Project has decided to launch web application honeynets and then publicly divulge not only the IP addresses of attackers but also details and information on the attackers themselves. It’s claimed that attackers are compromising web servers both Windows and Linux primarily through PHP vulnerabilities that have...
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Protect your organization against pretexters with help from Sun Tzu and The Art of War
- This article is also available as a PDF download.By Calvin SunIn 1978, Security Pacific Bank in California lost $10 millionto an employee who used ruses to trick the bank into wiring the money into hisSwiss bank account. More recently, Hewlett-Packardgained nationwide notoriety in its attempts to uncover "leaks" byits board...
- Technical articles 2007-01-09
- Defend your network from slow scanning
- Most serious attackers aren't going to advertise their intentions by performing a broad scan—the smartest attackers will try to come in under your detection radar. In this edition of Security Solutions, Mike Mullins discusses why attackers prefer slow scanning, examines the tools they use, and tells you how to defend...
- Technical articles 2006-11-16
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