More security researchers are selling vulnerabilities to the highest bidder rather than disclosing them "responsibly" to the vendor whose products are affected.
One of PeopleSoft's flagship Asia Pacific clients, Air New Zealand, today revealed it is unfazed by aggressive wrangling between the enterprise software developer and competitor Oracle.
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A fatal flaw with the DNS (Domain Name System) was currently being exploited in internet attacks and more attacks were likely, the security researcher who discovered the flaw said on Thursday in the US
According to one security vendor, Mac users are at a crossroad this year: will or won't they prove to be as gullible as their PC cousins when it comes to security?
Software vendor CA recently took me for a tour around their AV research centre in Melbourne, where I got to visit their "live virus" room, which was the only place in the building I saw a Mac.
The latest Internet Threat Survey from Symantec is a whopping 120 pages and unlike in its previous reports, the company has avoided any mention of malware for Apple's OS X.
Microsoft launched its Windows Live OneCare antivirus package in the US earlier this year and instantly grabbed 15 percent of the market; although this may be good in terms of short term revenue, it could completely wreck everything the software giant has invested in improving its reputation for security.
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Bug hunter David Litchfield says the Oracle community shouldn't be so smug when it comes to database security. He represents NGS Software, which has serviced Oracle in the past and Microsoft at present.
HP is to launch a penetration-testing service for businesses in October using controlled exploit code.
Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference.
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McAfee, without realising it, has fixed a serious flaw in its popular product for managing security software, the security vendor said on Friday.
Alarmist advice and unbacked claims by security software vendor Symantec has the Macintosh community up in arms.
Security vendor Symantec has once again pointed the knife at Apple Macintosh users.
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