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The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration …

Hiawatha is a secure and advanced Web server for Unix. It features a rootjail, the ability to run CGIs under any UID/GID you want, prevention of SQL injection and cross-site …

TrendLabs warns about spam messages with the subject “Your credit balance is over its limits” professing to be from Vodafone and Verizon Wireless. The email states …

(IN)SECURE Magazine is a free digital security publication discussing some of the hottest information security topics. Issue 23 has been released today. Table of contents …

Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested and generally require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification, …

Cyber Monday, one of the busiest days of the year for online shopping, is quickly approaching (Nov. 30), and a new national survey from ISACA shows employees plan to spend the …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Cyber war is coming, the impact could be huge Admiral Mike McConnell, …

Foreground Security discovered a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash. This vulnerability allows the same-origin policy of Adobe Flash to be exploited to allow nearly any …

WordPress 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, …

WhiteHat Security released a report assembled from real-world website security data, is a high-level perspective on major website security issues that continue to compromise …

Spam in email traffic The amount of spam detected in email traffic averaged 86.3% in September 2009. A low of 83.3% was recorded on 18 September with a peak value of 91.3% …

Safari 4.0.4 includes improvements to performance, stability, and security. ColorSync An integer overflow exists in the handling of images with an embedded color profile, …