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Microsoft Security Patch Advance Notification - May 2008
Posted in: Information Security
As the second Tuesday of the month will be with us next week, Microsoft have provided advance notice of the patches that they expect to release on that day.
This month there are four patches scheduled for release, three Critical patches, and one Moderate. The three Critical patches address remot....
Posted: 9 May 2008 18:49
PHP Updates to 5.2.6
Posted in: Information Security
The PHP Group released version 5.2.6 of the popular scripting language earlier this month. While there were more than 100 bugs fixed with this update, there were several critical security vulnerabilities patched that make updating essential for any administrators or users currently using the 5.x br....
Posted: 8 May 2008 21:45
Mass Site Hack Proves no Site is Truly Safe
Posted in: Information Security
There has been a lot of coverage of a widespread (estimated at more than half a million sites) set of web server attacks that have been taking place for a number of weeks using an unfortunately-common SQL injection opportunity to take control of back end databases, and sites themselves. So much con....
Posted: 28 April 2008 01:33
DefCon Competition has Antivirus Vendors Complaining
Posted in: Information Security
DefCon is known for a range of 'out there' type activities and presentations and it looks like this year is going to be no different. A contest that is being organised on the sidelines of this year's convention is already raising eyebrows and complaints from around the Information Security industry....
Posted: 28 April 2008 00:57
Public Attention Defeats hack Attempt and Forces Group to Disband
Posted in: Information Security
Following an article on Friday's about calls from Chinese hackers to carry out a distributed Denial of Service attack against the CNN website comes news that the attack has been called off for now, due to media coverage about the planned attack. Following the short timeline between the article bein....
Posted: 22 April 2008 09:10
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