Monthly Archives: September 2006

Very interesting article at SecurityFocus – This article explores measures to attack those malicious attackers who seek to harm our legitimate systems. The proactive use of exploits and bot networks that fight other bot networks, along with social engineering and … Continue reading →

The VML exploit is growing quickly and a mass email attack could be just days away, warn security experts who are tracking the problem. The exploit was first discovered early this week by Sunbelt Software. The exploit is a buffer … Continue reading →

Security researchers are alleging that a zero-day exploit for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is in the wild. The vulnerability stems from a buffer overflow condition in IE for an XML component called Vector Markup Language (VML). VML handles vector images that … Continue reading →

The United States is not prepared to effectively coordinate a public/private recovery from a major attack on the Internet, cyber security officials told Congress … Click here to read more.

Microsoft is developing a new language to improve the security of grid environments through features such as decentralized authorization policies, according to the company’s Blair Dillaway. The Security Policy Assertion Language (SecPAL) is a product of an ongoing Microsoft initiative … Continue reading →