Security Testing Tools by Microsoft
The Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) team at Microsoft released two security testing tools. BinScope Binary Analyzer A Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance with Microsoft’s SDL requirements and recommendations. MiniFuzz File Fuzzer A very simple fuzzer designed to ease adoption of fuzz testing by non-security people who are unfamiliar with file fuzzing tools or have never used them in their current software development processes.
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WordPress warns of wayward worm
Users of the WordPress blogging platform need to beware of a worm making the rounds of Web sites, if they have not updated their software in the last month, the developers of the popular blogging software said over the weekend. The malicious program affects blogs that use WordPress, and which have not installed either of the two latest updates, released on August 3 and August 12. The worm attacks Web sites by registering itself as a user, exploiting the flaw to make itself an admin, hides itself, and then updates posts and comments with spam and links to malware, the [...]
Categories: Internet Security, wordpress Tags: Internet Security, virus, wordpress, worm
Serious security bug found in Windows Vista
An independent security consultant publicized this week the details to a critical flaw in the server message block version 2 (SMB2) component of Microsoft’s Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and the release candidate for Windows 7. The researcher, Laurent Gaffié, claimed in his advisory that the vulnerability causes a Blue Screen of Death, a pernicious crash on Windows system, but other researchers have subsequently concluded that the flaw is actually remotely exploitable, a more serious issue.
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Vulnerability scanner SAINT
SAINT offers an integration of vulnerability assessment and penetration testing tools. Benefits of using the SAINT Vulnerability Scanner Lets you exploit vulnerabilities found by the scanner with the integrated penetration testing tool, SAINTexploit™.
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Gtalk Group Chat
All popular chat messenger support Group chat. Many people don’t know about Gtalk conference chat.. Gtalk such big player in internet market how can’t it will not support group chat..
Categories: Concept Tags: Gtalk Group Chat, Launch Gtalk Group Chat
Gmail outage challenges Google engineers
San Francisco: A disruption to Google’s Gmail service frustrated users throughout the world Tuesday and flummoxed engineers at the giant internet company. Google said the problems started early in the morning and were not resolved until approximately 2330 GMT.
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