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Researcher Releases 'Qubes' Hardened OS
Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher known for her work on virtualization security and low-level rootkits, has released a new open-source operating system meant to provide isolation of the OS’s components for better security. The OS, called Qubes, is based on Xen, X and Linux and is in a basic...
Protect your site with URL rewriting
Over at Microsoft’s MSDN magazine, there’s a really interesting article by Bryan Sullivan suggesting a defense-in-depth strategy to protect Web sites and applications from cross-site scripting XSS and cross-site request forgery XSRF attacks. Here’s the gist of Sullivan’s recommendation: Attacks...
Cross site scripting
Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, when running on systems with Firefox installed and certain URIs registered, allows remote attackers to conduct cross-browser scripting attacks and execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a 1 FirefoxURL or 2 FirefoxHTM...
Symantec Veritas NetBackup bpcd.exe CONNECT_OPTIONS buffer overflow
Overview Symantec Veritas NetBackup contains a buffer overflow vulnerability, which may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Symantec VERITAS NetBackup is a client/server based backup software solution. The NetBackup bpcd daemon is...
MS07-047: Vulnerability in Windows Media Player could allow remote code execution
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