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K-Zero Day Safety: Measuring the Security Risk of Networks Against Unknown Attacks

July 6, 2010 12:00am PDT

The security risk of a network against unknown zero day attacks has been considered as something unmeasurable since software flaws are less predictable than hardware faults and the process of...

Provided by: Concordia University

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True Zero Day Protection: The Only Defense Against Evolving Security Threats

March 1, 2008 12:00am PST

Zero day attacks are a growing threat to corporate networks, because they pass undetected through conventional signature-based defenses. Many, if not most, systems are vulnerable to these attacks....

Provided by: WatchGuard Technologies

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Hamsa: Fast Signature Generation for Zero-Day Polymorphic Worms With Provable Attack Resilience

January 1, 2011 12:00am PST

Zero-day polymorphic worms pose a serious threat to the security of Internet infrastructures. Given their rapid propagation, it is crucial to detect them at edge networks and automatically...

Provided by: Northwestern University

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Thwarting Zero-Day Polymorphic Worms With Network-Level Length-Based Signature Generation

May 6, 2010 12:00am PDT

It is crucial to detect zero-day polymorphic worms and to generate signatures at network gateways or honeynets so that the authors can prevent worms from propagating at their early phase. However,...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Guns, babes, and rootkits: A Windows guru writes a thriller

April 12, 2011 8:55am PDT

Microsoft's Mark Russinovich released his first novel, a thriller based on a zero-day attack. Mark Underwood reviews the novel and the security tech featured in it.

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Another zero-day vulnerability reported in Windows 7

August 9, 2010 1:17pm PDT

Ryan Naraine over on our sister-site, ZDNet, is reporting that another zero-day vulnerability has been reported for Microsoft Windows 7.

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Zero-day RPC flaw in Microsoft DNS

April 13, 2007 9:21am PDT

Zero-day RPC flaw in Microsoft DNS article root Zero-day RPC [i]EXPLOIT[/i] in Microsoft DNS . [[b]Updated 4/16/2007:[/b] The original title of this article was "Zero-day RPC flaw in Microsoft...

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VMworld day 1 from San Francisco

September 1, 2009 9:45pm PDT

The virtualization world is zeroed in on San Francisco this week for the VMworld conference. Virtualization master Rick Vanover highlights the day's events and shares a little trivia.

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Adobe Alert: Sure enough, another vulnerability

April 29, 2009 2:06pm PDT

I doubt if everyone has installed the patch for Adobe's February zero-day vulnerability and now there's another one just waiting to get exploited. Find out what I decided to do.

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Patch Tuesday: Several updates fix zero-day exploits

April 15, 2009 11:54am PDT

Microsoft's April patch Tuesday is a serious one. Three patches fix zero-day exploits and four fix published exploits. Want to know which ones are which?

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Adobe Alert: Updates available for latest zero-day exploit

March 22, 2009 2:24pm PDT

Adobe finally released patches for several versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader. Learn about the vulnerability and how to prevent the zero-day exploit.

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Serious zero-day vulnerability threatens RealPlayer users

October 20, 2007 12:18am PDT

A new zero day vulnerability has been discovered in both RealPlayer and RealPlayer 11 beta that can allow a remote exploit on computers running the affected music player software. According to...

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Critical zero-day PDF bug found

September 23, 2007 9:46am PDT

Security researcher Petko D. Petkov has discovered a new zero-day PDF vulnerability that can lead to the complete compromise of a Windows machine. The flaw can be triggered by simply opening an...

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New zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP

September 20, 2007 11:59pm PDT

Secunia has listed a new zero-day vulnerability involving Windows XP. This flaw could potentially allow a system to be remotely compromised.

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New zero-day flaws found in AOL, Yahoo IM

September 19, 2007 11:58pm PDT

New zero-day vulnerabilities have been found in both AOL and Yahoo instant messaging products. According to ZDNet Blogs, this is the third major security hiccup found in Yahoo Messenger over the...

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Anatomy of an animated cursor attack

April 6, 2007 11:10am PDT

Earlier this week, Microsoft shipped an emergency out-of-band patch to block zero-day attacks against a code execution hole in the way Windows handles animated cursor (.ani) files. This gallery...

Articles

A new zero-day threat emerges for Excel

February 5, 2007 9:54pm PST

Microsoft Word isn't the only Office application with zero-day vulnerabilities anymore—a new threat has emerged for Microsoft Excel. In addition, a pair of threats for Windows-based smart phones...

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Yet another zero-day threat emerges for Word

January 29, 2007 11:12pm PST

Microsoft has released a security advisory detailing a fourth zero-day threat in Microsoft Word, and three critical flaws have surfaced in the Cisco IOS. John McCormick has the details about these...

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Linux expert warns of open source's growing appeal to hackers

October 30, 2006 10:14pm PST

Alan Cox, a well-respected Linux developer, warned attendees of London's LinuxWorld that open source software is becoming more attractive to commercial hackers. In this edition of the IT...

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Linux 101: Installing Debian GNU/Linux

August 14, 2006 8:11pm PDT

Every day someone takes a whack at installing some Linux distribution on a computer and ultimately gives up out of frustration. Follow this guide to installing Debian GNU/Linux and reduce your...