Google decided to release an internally used web application security assessment tool called ratproxy publicly.
Google announced ratproxy with a distinct caveat for security professionals: it’s designed to highlight “interesting patterns” regarding web applications.
At times where web application Attacks can take place regulary those “Highlights” should be of assistance.The Ratproxy Tool takes a look at [...]

Should support business aims, not the other way around
March 11, 2008 Security has to evolve into something that supports business, rather than the other way around, according to Lisa R. Young, senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Emergency Response Team.
Security has gotten a bad rap in [...]

March 10, 2008 (IDG News Service) Following the lead of Microsoft and Oracle, Cisco Systems will start releasing security patches for some of its products on a schedule.
The scheduled updates will be for the Internetwork Operating System (IOS) software used by routers and switches that Cisco sells to enterprise [...]

In an attempt to boost its online privacy stance, Microsoft has announced that it has acquired the U-Prove identity management technology from Credentica.
U-Prove allows website visitors to reveal only a minimum amount of personal information when conducting electronic transactions, thus reducing the likelihood of privacy violations. The technology, developed by Credentica Chief Executive Stefan Brands [...]

Microsoft and Mozilla are upping the ante in security features for the next versions of their popular browsers.
At its MIX08 conference in Las Vegas this week, Microsoft unveiled two security features that will debut in the next version of its browser, Internet Explorer 8: the Safety Filter, which warns users of potentially malicious [...]

Researchers are clamoring that this is the year you must deal with mobile security or get hit by phishing and malware attacks on the devices in your employee’s pocket.
One by one, Adam Schafer, a system engineer at Bluefire, demonstrated the attacks, rendering the smartphone in front of him defenseless. In the first, he modified the home page of the device [...]

CERT published his Annual Report to the public yesterday.
CERT is developing theoretical foundations and engineering methods to help ensure the security of critical systems and networks. This report describes progress in CERT research projects and opportunities for collaboration.
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Description:
B0B has discovered a vulnerability in ICQ, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise another user’s system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a format string error when generating HTML code to display messages in the embedded Internet Explorer component, which can be exploited by sending specially crafted messages containing format string specifiers [...]

(IDG News Service) A rootkit uncovered in the wild in December is proving to be a real headache to detect, according to Finnish security company F-Secure. Dubbed “Mebroot,” the rootkit infects the master boot record (MBR), the first sector of a PC’s hard drive that the computer looks to before loading the operating [...]

Hi today i want to talk with you about a method to bypass the WLM email verification process and be able to use whatever email you want while the adress won´t show up as unverified.
The account bug is old and many of you will know it, there are many ways to get an WLM Account [...]

We all do know that Google can be used to find vulnerabilitys on the web, the best example is the google vulnerability scanner on my homepage i offer from rgod.
Now a new security scanner was released  by the Cult of the Dead Cow. This isn´t a script like the one provided on my site, [...]

A dismal earnings report this week from intrusion prevention maker Sourcefire underscores some of the challenges facing public IT security companies, a pair of analysts said Friday.
Sourcefire, which makes the open-source IPS Snort, also will lose its chief executive officer, E. Wayne Jackson III, who announced he will resign to pursue other opportunities.
Jackson, with the [...]