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Avoiding the Top 3 Application Security Mistakes

It happens one day, seeming out of nowhere. Your manager has a revelation (usually inspired by an incident, or the board of directors) and walks into your cubicle and says “We should put together an application security program”.

Now what?

Let’s be realistic here for a moment – you’re understaffed, overworked, and ill-prepared to roll …

Unpatched hole in ImgBurn disk burning application

According to security specialist Secunia, a highly critical vulnerability in ImgBurn, a lightweight disk burning application, can be used to remotely compromise a user’s system. The security issue in the freeware program is reportedly caused by the application loading libraries (dwmapi.dll) in an “insecure manner”, which can then lead to the execution of …

Execution flow-based web application testing

In this video, Rafal Los, the Security Evangelist at HP, talks about web application security testing and offers a variety of practical tips.

The video was recorded at the OWASP AppSec USA 2010 con…

Full story: Help Net Security – News

Phoney first Facebook status messages lead to rogue application

What are the odds that you and your friends posted your very first messages on Facebook on precisely the same day? May 2nd 2008.

Wouldn’t it be even more remarkable if you posted that very first message at the same time? 6:57am.

And wouldn’t it utterly blow your trousers off if you discovered that you …

Can you really see who viewed your Facebook profile? Rogue application spreads virally

Once again, a rogue application is spreading virally between Facebook users pretending to offer you a way of seeing who has viewed your profile.

As we’ve described a couple of times before, plenty of Facebook users would *love* to know who has been checking them out online.. but unfortunately scammers are aware of this, and …

Android Application Security

Installing an application on an iPhone is a bit different than installing an application on an Android based system. With the iPhone you go to the App Store, select your application (and pay if required) then download and install it. For the Android based phones you go to the Android Market, select your application, download …

CA Virtual Assurance Changes the Game on Virtual Performance Management and Application Traffic Responsiveness

I'm thrilled to report that CA Virtual Assurance r3 is now generally available to customers. The product is one of many new and enhanced CA virtualization management solutions designed for every stage of virtualization deployment. With exceptional breadth and depth of solutions for every organization and size-from "virtualization-specific" departmental deployments to the largest…  

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Trojan.Oficla uses office application file to hide itself and forms botnet

March 24, 2010

Doctor Web — the leading Russian anti-virus vendor — issues a warning for users as Trojan.Oficla programs spread widely over the Internet with the number of their detections per week exceeding 100 000. Once such a program has infected the system, it hides its malicious activities and creates a winword.exe process …