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Secunia, the company that’s famous for researching and assessing vulnerabilities found in many commercial products, revealed a 2012 policy change which dictates that vulnerabilities discovered by their internal team or via their Secunia Vulnerability Coordination Reward Program (SVCRP) will be made public after... |
19 January 2012
06:02 GMT |
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Few users think of the exposure of their system on account of security vulnerabilities available in the various programs installed. Secunia PSI (Personal Software Inspector) has been conceived as a simple, effective and automatic way to keep your software updated to the latest secure version. Its purpose is to inform... |
28 January 2011
09:22 GMT |
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Danish vulnerability research and management vendor Secunia has released version 2.0 of its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) product, which is capable of installing patches for outdated applications automatically.Version 1.x of Secunia Personal Software Inspector determines the version of all EXE and DLL files on th... |
21 December 2010
09:18 GMT |
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Danish vulnerability research vendor Secunia has launched a new initiative to provide periodic and comprehensive reports about the security of popular applications, which take into account various metrics.Dubbed Security Factsheets, these reports will be released quarterly and will present data in a standardized form... |
8 December 2010
08:19 GMT |
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The domain name of vulnerability research company Secunia was redirected earlier today to an unrelated Web page showing a message in Turkish, after its DNS records were altered.Secunia is one of the world's leading vulnerability intelligence and management vendors. Based in Denmark, the company tracks, rates and... |
25 November 2010
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Microsoft updated the exploitability index of two vulnerabilities patched last week in light of new information and added additional information for a third.On September 15, Microsoft released patches for twelve vulnerabilities in various Windows, IIS and Office components, which were covered in nine security bulleti... |
23 September 2010
12:39 GMT |
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Microsoft slapped Apple in more ways than one during the company’s recent Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) 2010 event. After it mocked the iPhone 4 calling it “their Vista,” Kevin Turner, Microsoft Chief Operating Officer, also noted that Microsoft’s software is superior in terms of security... |
16 July 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Secunia, a leading provider of Vulnerability Intelligence and Vulnerability Management tools, has issued its Half Year Report for 2010 (PDF) which puts Apple atop of Microsoft in terms of bugs found in its products. Noting that “a high market share correlates with a high number of vulnerabilities,” the se... |
13 July 2010
05:45 GMT |
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According to research from vulnerability management company Secunia, a lot of popular applications fail to make use of the defenses implemented in Windows. Applications like Java, Adobe Reader, Mozilla Firefox have broken, incomplete or missing DEP and ASLR support. DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is a security ... |
2 July 2010
06:08 GMT |
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In order to make sure that their copies of Windows are bulletproofed against exploits in the wild, customers need to apply a patch every five days, according to Secunia. Of course, not all patches target the Windows operating system. Updates are also needed to plug security holes in the software that runs on top of t... |
4 March 2010
10:25 GMT |
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World-renowned vulnerability intelligence company Secunia announced that version 2.0 of its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) product would provide a unified patching solution. The new technology will allow home users to automatically install security updates for a broad array of applications.The Secunia Personal Sof... |
3 March 2010
09:34 GMT |
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Reputed Danish vulnerability intelligence provider Secunia has recently released version 1.5 of its free Personal Software Inspector (PSI) application. Statistics gathered by the software reveal frightening numbers, such as 2,720,800,000 vulnerable programs being installed on U.S. computers. Secunia PSI is a free ap... |
25 June 2009
09:32 GMT |
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The security research company Secunia has released an advisory regarding a highly critical vulnerability that affects Trend Micro's free online HouseCall scanner. If exploited successfully, the bug allows for remote code execution, and the system is completely compromised. HouseCall is an online anti-virus scann... |
23 December 2008
06:13 GMT |
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Following the first stable release of its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) product, the famous Danish company has gathered data from new installations of the software on users' computers. Analysis of the data revealed that 98 out of 100 computers ran outdated and unpatched software. Secunia is a company founded... |
3 December 2008
10:02 GMT |
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A few days ago, the well known vulnerability tracking company Secunia released the results of a test aimed at comparing vulnerability exploit detection rates of Internet Security Suite-type products from several anti-virus vendors. The results were surprisingly disappointing, with a single product scoring a rate high... |
16 October 2008
09:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has come out gunning for an exploit test performed by security outfit Secunia involving 12 Internet Security Suites among which Windows Live OneCare. The Redmond company labeled the results of the exploits targeting vulnerabilities test as misleading and confusing because Secunia focused exclusively on the ... |
16 October 2008
07:41 GMT |
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According to an advisory recently released by Secunia, an attacker can manipulate data from a remote location thanks to multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities found in Zoph (Zoph Organizes Photos). The vulnerability has been deemed "moderately critical" by Secunia, but a new version of Zoph, which addresses the secur... |
21 July 2008
05:28 GMT |
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The face-off between the most prominent browsers on the market is not only a question of audience and uptake, but also one of security. As browsers are often a preferred attack vector, developers aim to bulletproof the product as much as possible. As far as the browser market is concerned, Internet Explorer, Firefox,... |
18 January 2008
12:46 GMT |
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While Microsoft has never went so far out on a limb as to claim that Windows Vista was a "sea of tranquility" in the threat environment, Apple on the other hand had no issues doing it, the company did introduce its latest operating system as the most secure of its Windows iterations to date. Bringing to the table an ... |
3 January 2008
05:17 GMT |
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The biggest threat to the users' computers is not Microsoft's Internet Explorer, not even by far. Instead, a solution from Apple presents the highest risk of delivering a successful attack vector. Apple's QuickTime media player outperforms not only Internet Explorer, a browser synonymous with lack of s... |
21 May 2007
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