Microsoft updates squash 4 critical bugs Patch Tuesday calls for Windows and Office disinfectant Microsoft on Tuesday issued updates to plug a half-dozen security holes, four of which were rated critical.…

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Debian fixes serious crypto bug Locksmith overtime for sys admins Debian has warned of a vulnerability in its cryptographic functions that could leave systems open to attack.…

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ModSecurity 2.6 RoadMap ModSecurity 2.6 will likely be the last branch before ModSecurity 3.  The 2.6 branch will concentrate on polishing up the current 2.5 feature set, performance, ease of use, supporting arbitrary c

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Vista security credentials tarnished in malware survey Better off with a Win 2000 box Windows Vista is better at protecting against malware than XP but more easily infected than Windows 2000, according to a study by Australian anti-virus firm PC Tools.…

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ModSecurity 2.5 Phrase Match Operator Performance Quite a few people have asked about the performance differences between using the regular expression (@rx) operator and using the phrase match (@pm or @pmFromFile) operator.  Lately, I have been

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India and Belgium decry Chinese cyber attacks Join the ranks Belgium and India have joined the growing ranks of countries voicing concerns about cyber attacks originating from China. Earlier this week, officials from both countries said computer

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Renault F1 comp site spills entrants' details You will never break the chain A Grand Prix competition from Renault hit the barriers on Thursday after it emerged that the motoring firm was inadvertently leaking entrants' personal details onto the

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HSBC in further data loss Stolen Hong Kong server contained data on 159K Security-incident prone bank HSBC has admitted losing a server containing transaction data on 159,000 Hong Kong-based account holders.…

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Rare SCADA bug poses power plant risk Wonderware scare Security watchers warn of a rare vulnerability involving software used to control industrial systems. A denial of service vulnerability in monitoring software from Invensys poses a se

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ModSecurity Party in Ghent on May 20th In my previous post, in which I was commenting on the OWASP AppSec agenda, I forgot to mention the party. What was I thinking?! Breach Security is throwing a cocktail party on May 20th, which is the l

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