Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Details of major Internet flaw posted by accident

The flaw was discovered several months ago by IOActive researcher Dan Kaminsky, who worked through the early part of this year with Internet software vendors such as Microsoft, Cisco and the Internet Systems Consortium to patch the issue.
The companies released a fix for the bug two weeks ago and encouraged corporate users and ISPs to patch their DNS systems as soon as possible. Although the problem could affect some home users, it is not considered to be a major issue for consumers, according to Kaminsky.

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

New risks in 802.11n

Along with the potential performance and coverage benefits of 802.11n come a few new security risks, says industry security guru Joshua Wright. Wright presented a Webinar last week that outlined several new vulnerabilities that high-speed 802.11n networks introduce

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Monday, July 21, 2008

Facebook best Security practice

If you are Facebook user , really you need to read this
Sophos recommended privacy settings for Facebook
ID fraudsters target Facebook and other social networking sites to harvest information about you. Sophos experts recommend you set the following Facebook privacy options to protect against online identity theft.

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Anything But Microsoft

Really nice Article to read

Microsoft is a security nightmare, Macs and Linux are a godsend.
Just because you're a Linux or Mac person sipping coffee in your server room on Patch Tuesdays doesn't mean you're immune from exploits. Nothing is bulletproof these days.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=99291&page_number=3

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Intel Chips under Attack

Waaw!!!!!!!!

Security researcher and author Kris Kaspersky plans to demonstrate how an attacker can target flaws in Intel's microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.

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Thursday, July 03, 2008

IE8.0 new security features

Microsoft has outlined new security features it will add to Internet Explorer (IE) next month, including anti-malware protection to block most cross-site scripting attacks.
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ISA Server 2006 Service Pack 1 - Released

Finally Microsoft has released ISA 2006 SP1 ,and you can downlaoded from the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D2FECA6D-81D7-430A-9B2D-B070A5F6AE50&displaylang=en