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Purported Chrome sandboxing exploit underscores monetary value of zero-day code
I reported on French security firm VUPEN earlier this week when the company announced that it created an exploit that successfully broke through the vaunted security sandbox in the Chrome web
Could 2010 be remembered as the year of insecurity?
As Thanksgiving weekend draws near, one cannot help but reflect on a year that will soon come to a close. As I consider the news stories that I've covered for FierceCIO:TechWatch in 2010, it is
Many home routers could be vulnerable to web hack
Your home Internet router might be vulnerable to attack by hackers and open up your local network and its traffic to remote hackers. Devices from Linksys, Asus, Belkin, Dell and Thomson brand names
Proof of concept attack highlights new weakness in PDF specification
Security researcher Jeremy Conway on Monday unveiled a proof of concept attack that allows malware to be spread via normal PDF files on target computers running PDF reader software such as Adobe
Released: Exploit code to bypass DEP security in Windows
Google security software engineer Berend-Jan Wever has published proof-of-concept code on how to bypass Microsoft's data execution prevention technology, or DEP. First introduced in Windows XP
Security still the major bugbear in 2010
A week later, the indignation and media furor that has erupted over search giant Google's revelation that it was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack is still simmering. If anything, the
New variant of PDF attack requires no user action
Researcher Didier Stevens has discovered that the mere storing of a malicious PDF file could trigger an attack targeting a new flaw in Adobe's popular PDF file format. The new vector is possible on a
Cisco rushes out IOS patch
Cisco
released a trio of security updates on Wednesday - hot on the heels of reports last
week on the availability of a proof of concept rootkit targeted at Cisco's
routers. The rootkit was
New PowerPoint flaw requires patching
While there are likely a few enterprises still patching like crazy following Microsoft's recent Patch Tuesday release of
ALSO NOTED: Release 1 of Vista makes its debut; Oracle pushes out updated PeopleSoft product; and much more...
> Release 1 of Vista makes its debut. Article > Oracle pushes out updated PeopleSoft
