Microsoft Adopts CVRF Format for Security Bulletins

Since the beginning of recorded time, security researchers, software vendors and hackers have been issuing security advisories in all kinds of nutty formats. Some feature excellent ASCII art, some have clever inside jokes and some come from Microsoft. Now, there’s a effort underway, called the...

Debian DSA-2197-1 : quagga - denial of service

It has been discovered that the Quagga routing daemon contains two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in its BGP implementation : - CVE-2010-1674 A crafted Extended Communities attribute triggers a NULL pointer dereference which causes the BGP daemon to crash. The crafted attributes are not...

AV Researcher Calls for Standard Threat Level Displays

GENEVA — A veteran security researcher today challenged the anti-malware industry to work on a standard way of assigning computer/Internet threat levels to present transparent helpful information to consumers and businesses. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference here, Fortin...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: boost-1.33.1-15.fc7

Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library, in the hopes of establishing "existing practice" for extensions and providing reference implementations so that the Boost libraries are suitable for eventua...