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May 27, 2009

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:20 PM/EST

Insurance Company Endures an HR Website Nightmare

Aetna, one of the world's largest health insurance providers, had to do something special for its customers following a security "oops" reported May 26 involving its Website. It turns out that a number of human resource-related e-mails containing important personal...

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April 25, 2009

Saturday, April 25, 2009 12:48 PM/EST

Infrastructure Security Trapped at Dangerous Crossroads

Organizations doing business in the critical grid infrastructure space need to up the ante when it comes to IT security, leading experts in the field reported at the RSA Conference.

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April 19, 2009

Sunday, April 19, 2009 12:40 PM/EST

Is Anybody Watching?

More organizations may consider restricting employees' Web access related to matters of security. There are proponents on both sides of the debate, but first you need to find out what's happening.

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March 15, 2009

Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:20 AM/EST

Vulnerability Management Payoff Requires Road Map

Vulnerability management is a process that takes a good deal of upfront work and cooperation from business units, observed experts speaking at the SOURCE Boston conference this week.

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February 9, 2009

Monday, February 09, 2009 11:09 PM/EST

Vendor Attacks Highlight SQL Injection Run

SQL injection remains a huge problem as illustrated by new research and attacks.

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December 8, 2008

Monday, December 08, 2008 5:15 PM/EST

Research Shows Almost No PCs Fully Patched

Secunia reports that based on a free scanning application that it has distributed to end users over the last year, less than 2 percent of PCs are fully updated with patched software.

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July 21, 2008

Monday, July 21, 2008 11:02 PM/EST

Researchers Uncover BEA Weblogic Apache Vulnerability

Researchers have found a highly critical security flaw in BEA Weblogic software that could lead to DoS attacks.

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June 11, 2008

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 11:27 AM/EST

SCADA software vulnerabilities to the fore

New research highlights the growing scrutiny being put on SCADA industrial control software systems as it becomes clear that the technologies need to be further locked-down to prevent potential disaster.

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May 6, 2008

Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:24 PM/EST

Yahoo Ships Silent Fix for ActiveX Flaw

Yahoo has silently pushed out a patch for a critical vulnerability affecting users of its Yahoo Assistant browser add-on. According to an alert from "Sowhat," a researcher at Nevis Labs, the vulnerability "allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable...

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April 28, 2008

Monday, April 28, 2008 12:39 PM/EST

Curse of the HP Software Updater

Hewlett-Packard's ongoing struggle to keep its software updater free of serious ActiveX control vulnerabilities is showing no signs of letting up. According to a "highly critical" alert issued by Secunia, the HP Software Update package pre-installed on notebooks contains...

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