TMOV writes "GOD help us all. A Dutch white hat hacker known asJELMER has discovered more serious openings in Internet Explorer and Outlook that are exploited by adware.
please see the rest of the story at The Register

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Anonymous writes "New LInux mail server Antivirus benchmarks and reviews on: www.benchmarks.dmz.ro
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May 28, 2004
By Gregg Keizer TechWeb News

Security attacks at major financial institutions more than doubled over a year ago, said a survey released Thursday of leading global banks, securities firms, and insurance companies.

WeekEnd Feature:
Blink and you’ll miss it

by Ian Thompson, CCSP Staff Editor
May 8, 2004

The world turns. Perhaps you’ve noticed this? Seasons change. Sun moves about a bit, and the moon trundles along its merry way. Some birds fly somewhere else for part of the year and whales swim thousands of miles and back again. This has absolutely nothing to do with security. But another thing that seems to run in cycles is the way that attack follows defence; the next threat after the last is not that far away these days…

Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943); US poetess.

- Buffer overflow in Oracle Database -
Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com)

Madrid, February 27, 2004 - SecuriTeam has warned of the existence of buffer
overflows in two functions used by versions 9ir2 and earlier of Oracle
Database Server, which could be used with PL/SQL to convert numbers to
date/time intervals.

Vulnerability in WinZip Could Compromise Security
By Larry Seltzer
February 27, 2004

Security analysts on Friday reported that versions of the popular ZIP file management program WinZip have a serious security flaw.

Check Point warns of firewall flaws
By Robert Lemos
CNET News.com

Two flaws in Check Point Software's flagship firewall software could allow an attacker to crash or compromise its firewall products, the company said Wednesday.

RealPlayer flaws open PCs up to hijackers
By Robert Lemos
CNET News.com
February 5, 2004, 12:43 PM PT

RealNetworks acknowledged on Wednesday that three flaws affecting different versions of its media player could allow attackers to create corrupt music or video files that, when played, take control of a victim's PC.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.
Elias Canetti (1905-94); Austrian novelist and philosopher.

- Old vulnerabilities in new devices -
Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com)

Madrid, December 23, 2003 - The number of peripheral devices which include
TCP/IP services for a range of functions, such as remote control, is
continually increasing. Today, in Oxygen3 24h-365d we will look at why, ...........................

IE fix mends flawed open-source patch
By Munir Kotadia
n/a
December 22, 2003, 9:54 AM PT

A Web site that published a third-party patch to fix a security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer has had to reissue the patch, after the original was found to be flawed.