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Attackers now targeting small business?

23 March 2009

At the Visa Security Summit last week there was a panel discussion on “Small Business: The New Target of Data Thieves.”
We do a lot of work helping protect small and mid-sized business (SMBs), and it’s great to see these organizations get attention.
An article over at at Dark Reading covered the Visa discussion well: Small [...]

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Major new flaw in Adobe Flash Player – Windows, Linux and Mac

13 July 2007

A couple days ago Adobe admitted to three separate vulnerabilities in their Flash player plugin for web browsers. The vulnerabilities affect Windows, Mac and Linux and allow arbitrary code execution, cross-site request forgery (CSRF), and logging of keystrokes (!).

The official announcement from Adobe
CVE numbers: CVE-2007-3456 , CVE-2007-3457 and CVE-2007-2022

Now, [...]

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Reducing spreadsheet errors by suggestion?

25 May 2007

Number-oriented people love their spreadsheets. Every once in a while I run into someone who has created a prized Excel document encrusted with VBA macros, filters and formulas that make String Theory look simple. Usually these monsters started life as a quick-and-dirty “what if” then grew over [...]

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Attacks on Virtual Machines

31 January 2007

More reading on the security of virtual machines like VMware: a researcher at Symantec has released a great little paper Attacks on Virtual Machine Emulators (hat tip to Computer Defense for point it out).
The paper covers a few of the recent VM-specific malware like the SubVirt rootkit (PDF) but mostly concentrates on methods of detecting [...]

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Shocker: Internet files are searchable!

10 October 2006

Last week Google released a code search engine that makes it easier to search through programming code that has been made publicly available on web and FTP sites. It’s nothing new… other code-specific search engines like koders.com have been around for a while and it’s always been possible to use Google and other search engines [...]

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