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WhiteHat Finds Website Security Has Drastically Improved
PCWorld
The average number of serious vulnerabilities found in 2011 on the 7000
websites monitored by WhiteHat Security fell 66 percent to 79 from 230 in
2010, according to the vendor's annual report, released Wednesday. The
decline in security flaws has been ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/258545/whitehat_finds_website_security_has_drastically_improved.html>
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Radical reduction in online vulnerabilities
Help Net Security
Despite the significant improvement in the state of website security,
organizational challenges in creating security programs that balance
breadth of coverage and depth of testing leave large-scale attack surfaces
or small, but very high-risk ...
<http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13183>
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Researchers Say The Web May Be Offering Fewer Footholds To Hackers
Forbes
In the annual report of Whitehat security, a firm that patrols roughly 7000
client websites weekly for hackable vulnerabilities–the largest hands-on
analysis of its kind–the Santa-Clara-based company found an average of 79
vulnerabilities in each of ...
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/06/28/researchers-say-the-web-may-be-offering-fewer-footholds-to-hackers/>
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Secure64 DNS Products Offer 'Genetic Diversity' For More Secure DNS ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"Any software product can have vulnerabilities, but BIND is an especially
attractive target because it is so widely deployed. When a company's DNS
infrastructure is entirely dependent on one technology, that's an obvious
risk. That is why genetic ...
<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/secure64-dns-products-offer-genetic-diversity-for-more-secure-dns-infrastructure-2012-06-28>
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4 Signs That Apple's Sharpening Its Security Game
Dark Reading
Charlie Miller, a security researcher who has found several Apple
vulnerabilities, says Apple's software is actually relatively secure; the
company just doesn't broadcast what it does security-wise. "I don't
believe they've found security religion, but ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/vulnerabilities/240002945/4-signs-that-apple-s-sharpening-its-security-game.html>
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Secunia data shows Shockwave, QuickTime, and Java JRE get updated the ...
Dark Reading
One of the weakest links is the system of leaving it up to users to
manually update their software: it's just not a given that most will bother
doing it. New and unpublished data from Secunia shows just how
inconsistently users update -- and how it ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability-management/167901026/security/application-security/240002953/the-apps-users-don-t-patch.html>
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Third edition of vulnerability spotter Secunia PSI
The H
The new version of the program updater is easier to use and can also now
speak German. The company has also improved automatic installation of
updates.
<http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Third-edition-of-vulnerability-spotter-Secunia-PSI-1628194.html>
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Tactical FLEX, Inc. Debuts Aanval SAS(TM) (Situational Awareness System)
MarketWatch (press release)
"In today's dangerous and evolving cyber battlefield, advanced threats are
overpowering traditional security solutions and additional network
visibility and situational awareness is now required to efficiently detect
network vulnerabilities and combat ...
<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tactical-flex-inc-debuts-aanval-sastm-situational-awareness-system-2012-06-28>
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Secunia PSI 3.0 silently deploys Windows security patches
Computerworld
PSI leverages Secunia's vulnerability intelligence to determine if software
programs installed on a user's Windows computer are missing security
patches. The product is free for personal use and supports applications
from over 3000 software vendors.
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228607/Secunia_PSI_3.0_silently_deploys_Windows_security_patches>
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