Expert analysis

Electronic document exchange and digital signatures are often considered as systems both hard to understand and difficult to use for the end user. This fear is often caused by …

A comprehensive look at what constitutes malicious code, the inherent weakness of all signature-based scanning methods, and the technology behind the Achilles’Shield …

Internet Security Systems and NGSSoftware found a security issue with chunk encoding in the popular Apache web server. The problems may lead to a remote compromise and denial …

Short description (from Incidents.org Handler’s Diary): There is a Denial of Service vulnerability in ISC Bind (versions 9 up to 9.2.1) When this is exploited by a …

In the past few years, email has become the predominant purveyor of viruses. This rapid communications technology outpaces the signature-based scanner updates, allowing …

The purpose of this paper is to explain why we have concluded that the future of virus protection lies with architecture, rather than product, and why a multi-modal, modular …

A number of security companies send us their company press releases, which we republish in the press section of Help Net Security. This is an overview of interesting …

P2P file sharing systems are rapidly becoming one of the most popular applications on the internet, with millions of users online exchanging files daily. While primarily …

This is a presentation at the Houston ISSA Meeting in April by Ricard Bejtlich, a senior forensic consultant for Foundstone. Download the presentation in PPT format here.

Title: Imap server buffer overflow Date: May 30 2002 Vendor: Mandrake Vulnerable systems: Mandrake Linux 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, Corporate Server 1.0.1 Full advisory: Problem …

This article describes today’s virus environment, why you need to reevaluate your current anti-virus strategy, and how your business can deploy SonicWALL’s active …

A number of security companies send us their company press releases, which we republish in the press section of Help Net Security. This is an overview of interesting …