Google is releasing a software development kit for native applications, which could potentially introduce security vulnerabilities.
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Most software companies have learned to grudgingly cooperate with researchers who expose security vulnerabilities in their products.
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He points out that in general, security vulnerabilities are much easier to find than they are to patch.
It also said Newark security officials had taken positive steps since 2010 to improve efforts to correct security vulnerabilities.
The report also ranked software companies according to their record of patching known security vulnerabilities in the software they sell.
Microsoft often takes the rap for security vulnerabilities from critics who say the company fails to properly test its software.
One excuse that the company might offer: more software security vulnerabilities were made public in the last six months than ever before.
The better a company understands which users have access to which corporate assets, the better it can realistically understand its potential security vulnerabilities.
Instead, they are describing a way for an attacker to more easily exploit security vulnerabilities that must already be present on the system.
We basically told the people who were formulating the standards at the Department of Commerce that they needed to address, number one: cyber-security vulnerabilities.
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Bad software leads to security vulnerabilities that vandals and thieves exploit, and wastes hours of productive time as techies desperately fix bugs in the code.
Kundra shifted the teams to actual testing to determine security vulnerabilities.
Demonstrating security vulnerabilities in widely-used technology is often a dangerous game.
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The report notes that while in the middle of an audit of the witness program, the inspector general notified the Justice Department of national security vulnerabilities.
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Costin argues that the the protocol needs to be fixed now, before more money is poured into its implementation, or before its security vulnerabilities lead to real-world problems.
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The tool would be in line with the company's mission to protect corporations from security vulnerabilities, which include not only unauthorized access to data, but also leaks from employees.
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Twitter suggested that users disable Java, which has been subject to an endless stream of security vulnerabilities, without explicitly saying that Java served as the initial entrypoint for the attack.
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Enterprise CIOs should consider the cost and labor saving benefits of public clouds when used with cloud management services that analyze potential cost spiral issues, utilization issues, and security vulnerabilities.
HackerWhacker will scan your PC's ports for security vulnerabilities.
The FBI was able to identify more than 150 security vulnerabilities at the time, allowing companies to prevent a hack before it occurred or mitigate harm from prior hacking activity, he said.
With the acquisition of Fortify, HP will be able to accelerate development of this technology to give clients the accuracy and prioritization they need around security vulnerabilities to build scalable enterprise application security programs.
Businesses with broader network concerns can look to platforms from SMB-focused companies such as Check Point Software, Trend Micro and Imperva, which offers a free, downloadable tool that scans databases for security vulnerabilities.
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Widely distributed Android malware has exploited known security vulnerabilities in the Android operating system for which fixes from Google existed, but which the vast majority of consumer devices had not received at the time of infection.
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"The continuing threats to military personnel and critical infrastructure and the growing national cyber security vulnerabilities demand a new breed of credentialing technology, and what our group has achieved certainly puts a whole new spin on things, " Gray said.
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Almost all of the machines ran outdated software with critical security vulnerabilities, and 98% contained data that the company or individual who set up the machine for users had intended to delete but could still be extracted from the machine.
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But in cases where researchers notify companies and offer to cooperate in order to solve security problems, a smarter approach to fixing those flaws has largely prevailed: Ed Felten, for instance, a Princeton researcher, faced legal threats in 2003 when he and colleagues exposed security vulnerabilities in Diebold voting machines.
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To demonstrate the potential severity of these security vulnerabilities, the researchers tracked the Skype accounts of about 20 volunteers as well as 10, 000 random users over a two-week period, using techniques that neither harmed nor disrupted the service, utilized any requests for which the service was not designed nor interfered with users.
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Last year, he participated in California's "Top-to-Bottom" review of voting machines that found critical security vulnerabilities in the technologies of electronic voting companies Sequoia, Premier Election Solutions and Hart InterCivic--vulnerabilities that the researchers said could be used to prevent machines from accepting votes, change voting counts and, in some cases, even identify voters.
Given the explosion of security, privacy and property protection vulnerabilities, enterprise level security on smart phones, tablets and other devices looks like a new leg of wireless growth.
It can scan computers for vulnerabilities in their security systems, break through any gap it finds, install itself on its new host, and propagate itself to other machines.
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