Zero-day flaws target 'safe' programs

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Zero-day flaws target 'safe' programs

-{ Quote: "In the nearly six months since the release of its last Top 20 vulnerabilities list, the SANS Institute has observed a sharp spike in zero-day flaws, many of them in programs long considered to be safe alternatives to Windows." }-

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1185978,00.html


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SANS warns of zero day attacks

-{ Quote: "The SANS Institute conducted a security briefing today in a teleconference hosted by Alan Paller, director of research at SANS, with a guest panel of Internet security experts on hand to elaborate. A press release from SANS warns of a surge in zero day attacks -- those which have been identified in the wild but have not yet patched by the vendors or projects involved -- and in attacks on the Apple OS X platform.

Rohit Dhamankar, editor, manager of security research at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, Dr. Johannes Ullrich, CTO of the SANS Internet Storm Center, Gerhard Eschelbeck, CTO at Webroot, Amol Sarwate, Manager of the Vulnerability Management Lab at Qualys, Ed Skoudis, SANS “Hacking Exploits” Course Director and Senior Security Analyst at Intelguardians, were on the panel with Paller." }-

http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/05/01/186200.shtml?tid=78



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