Daily Archives: November 16, 2006

Microsoft SQL Server Runs the Security Table!?

Enterprise Strategy Group just released a research paper comparing the security of Microsoft SQL Server with Oracle and MySQL: Abstract: The rate of security vulnerabilities documented in the National Vulnerability Database for the major database vendors is noteworthy for the … Continue reading

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Will Buffer-Overflow be Over Soon?

It might be, who knows… Based on paper by Krerk Piromsopa and Richard J. Enbody, titled: “Secure Bit: Transparent, Hardware Buffer-Overflow Protection,” and published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 365-376, Oct-Dec, 2006, … Continue reading

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Be careful: Malware Goes to the Movies

Antivirus firm McAfee warned Windows users that the company had discovered a worm, dubbed W32/Realor, actively infecting Real Media files. The infected video files do not contain an exploit for the RealOne or Real players, but a hyperlink that points … Continue reading

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