Archive for the ‘Security’ Category

IPv6 Protection by OSes Inadequate, Potential Vulnerabilities Surface

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Rudimentary software-level protection for IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6), a network protocol which comes pre-installed with several operating systems (OS) but poorly implemented in the real-world makes it a protocol ignored by security providers, and effectively a soft-target for hackers to compromise a system. Several OSes including Linux 2.6 upwards, Windows ...

CPU Errata Turn Security Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Security vulnerabilities have plagued the computing world ever since computing became a significant advance of mankind. As of today, the plethora of security software we use that gobble money, system resources and network bandwidth to keep our computers and networks safe, have done a good job and it's relatively 'peaceful' ...

Hacked Antivirus Site Delivers a Virus

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

The Web site for Indian antivirus vendor AvSoft Technologies has been hacked and is being used to install malicious software on visitors' computers, security researchers said last week. The download section of AvSoft's S-cop Web site hosts the malicious code, according to Roger Thompson, chief research officer with security vendor ...

Microsoft Warns Users Against Using VLite

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Windows Vista is known for a lot of things. Among them is eating memory, both in storage and RAM, like a fat kid through cake. The folks who made VLite, a program designed to let you custom-build a Windows Vista disk without a lot of things you don't need, were ...

RIAA Does Not See Need for ISP Filtering

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

It's not news that Comcast secretly monitors all web traffic for possible illegal activity and shuts down anything that sets off their alarms. However, there has lately been a move to push this ISP filtering one step further, and making it mandatory for all ISPs. Thankfully, the RIAA, known throughout ...

New Vulnerability Hits Excel

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

A new flaw has opened up in Microsoft Excel, which could allow an attacker to compromise a remote user's computer. Microsoft warned this week that an attacker could use the vulnerability to create a malicious Excel file. Users who open an infected file would be subject to having their computer ...

PHP Brute Force an Authentication Form

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

See PHP source code Brute Force Security