Stories about: X-Force

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IBM: Vulnerabilities fell in 2009, but other risks abound 26 February, 2010 08:08

The number of software vulnerabilities fell overall in 2009, but the number of bugs in document readers and multimedia applications increased by 50 percent, according to IBM's annual X-Force Trend and Risk Report.
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Microsoft patches last major ATL bugs 15 October, 2009 07:19

Microsoft yesterday wrapped up a months-long job of patching a critical bug it accidently introduced in a crucial code "library," one of the researchers who uncovered the flaw said today.
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CIO and CSO should take a follow the money approach to security: IBM X-Force 27 August, 2009 10:15

CIOs and CSOs could do well to consider the monetisation cost and overall profitability of security risks when considering how to safe guard their organisations, according to the findings of a new report from IBM’s Internet Security Systems X-Force research and development team.
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Microsoft rushes patches to fix 'big deal' programming flaw 29 July, 2009 08:33

As promised, Microsoft today patched six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) and Visual Studio with the first "out-of-cycle" update since it plugged a hole last October that the Conficker worm later used to run rampant.
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Bug in Firefox 3.5.1 isn't exploitable, Mozilla says 20 July, 2009 13:21

A bug discovered in the latest version of Firefox is not exploitable, Mozilla said on Sunday, responding to reports of another vulnerability in the browser.
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Microsoft admits it knew of critical IE bug in early '08 13 July, 2009 08:45

Microsoft on Thursday confirmed it has known about a bug behind widespread Internet Explorer (IE) attacks for more than a year, but defended its security process against critics.
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Newest IE bug could be next Conficker, says researcher 09 July, 2009 08:14

The critical bug that Microsoft confirmed Monday but has yet to patch is a prime candidate for another Conficker-scale attack, a security researcher said.
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Microsoft may have known about critical IE bug for months 08 July, 2009 08:58

The vulnerability that sent Microsoft scrambling yesterday and is being used by hackers now to attack Internet Explorer (IE) users may have been reported 18 months ago or more.
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Adobe patches 13 critical PDF bugs in first quarterly update 10 June, 2009 12:36

Adobe issued its first regularly-scheduled security updates on Tuesday, fixing at least 13 critical flaws reported by outside researchers and secretly patching an unspecified number of bugs found by its own team.
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Image spam returns with a vengeance 07 May, 2009 08:20

Spammers have turned back the clock and are recycling a years-old tactic by planting their messages in images, a security researcher warned Wednesday.
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Conficker.c controls 4% of all infected PCs, IBM says 06 April, 2009 07:37

As many as one out of every 25 Internet addresses that transmits potentially dangerous data over the Internet is infected with the Conficker.c worm, IBM Corp.'s security arm said Friday.