A hybrid worm known variously as Eyeveg.d, Bugbear.b and Lanieca.b speads itself like a worm but carries a Trojan payload—and security companies say this sort of malware will only become more popular.
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"Microsoft on Wednesday posted its first security advisory since it debuted a security alert service last week, but downplayed the threat posed by the new TCP/IP vulnerability."
Security-Hardening Third-Party Applications The most important information security question is how to security-harden third-party applications. Whether we have access to the source code or not, an application that comes from a third-party developer or independent software vendor is typically far too complex for us to easily understand its vulnerabilities.
Rootkit intrusions are designed to cover their tracks, but if programmers could use metacode to tell the OS what they expect their code to do in advance, it could make unwelcome code easier to detect.
The most important information security question is how to security-harden third-party applications. Whether we have access to the source code or not, an application that comes from a third-party developer or independent software vendor is typically far too complex to understand its vulnerabilities easily.
The SANS Institute has issued its most recent list of the top ten security holes in Windows and UNIX systems, highlighting recently discovered vulnerabilities.
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