October 2006 - Posts

Microsoft Black Tuesday - October 2006
And the file format vulnerabilities keep on coming! If the 2006 Microsoft security bulletins have had a theme, that theme has been file format vulnerabilities in media formats and Office documents. We kicked off 2006 with an out of cycle patch for the Read More...
Posted 10 October 06 08:33 by Erik | 0 Comments   
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Fun With Google Code Search
Yesterday, Google Labs launched a search tool that has many developers salivating. It's called Google Code Search (GCS) and allows developers to search source code from other projects to assist them in finding code for reuse. It has some impressive Read More...
Posted 06 October 06 10:53 by Erik | 7 Comments   
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The True Value of Third Party Patches
The number of so called 0day vulnerabilities seems to be on the rise and in response to this threat, a number of security researchers are pooling their skills to produce third party patches. There are plenty of arguments for why we're seeing this Read More...
Posted 05 October 06 11:49 by Erik | 0 Comments   
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