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F-Secure has analysed a new Windows network worm, known as Welchi or Nachi. This worm is similar to the Lovsan or Blaster worm, which has been spreading massively in the …

Despite numerous security technologies crafted to resist buffer overflow vulnerabilities, buffer overflows continue to be the dominant form of software security vulnerability. …

Captus Provides TLIDSâ„? Policy Templates to Prevent Breach woodland, Calif., August 15, 2003 – For companies that fell victim to or survived the latest worm …

Windows 2000 and XP machines that get infected after this moment will try to launch a distributed denial-of-service attack against Microsoft’s windowsupdate.com. …

Sophos has today updated its anti-virus software to protect against the new Graybird Trojan (Troj/Graybird-A). Sophos’s virus lab has seen an example of the backdoor …

– Owners of SurfinShield Corporate and SurfinGuard Pro Products Will Not Require Anti-Virus Signature File Updates – SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ — …

Ubizen, Europe’s leading managed security service provider (MSSP), is warning its customers of a second critical vulnerability in versions of Microsoft Windows. This …

McAfee Security Consumer Experts Recommend Users Employ Both Anti-Virus and Personal Firewall Solutions SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Network …

Once again, it appears that the worm authors had caught system administrators with their trousers down. Despite the availability of a patch since mid-July to fix the …

To the Free Software Community: Summary * gnuftp, the FTP server for the GNU project was root compromised. A replacement machine was rolled out in its place on the morning …

New Internet Security Software Protects Thousands of Computers Worldwide Braintree, Mass. — August 13, 2003 — interMute, Inc., developer of award winning AdSubtract …

This week’s report looks at five worms, Blaster, Blaster.B, Blaster.C, RPCSdbot and RPCSdbot.B, which all exploit the same vulnerability in order to spread to as many …