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October 21, 2004
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Larry Seltzer: Bad Input Bombs Your Program
1. News: IE Exploit Lets Attackers Plant Programs on SP2
2. News: Bush and GOP Sites Outage, DDoS Attack Suspected
3. News: Symantec Preps Anti-Spyware Launch as Revenue Climbs
4. News: Feds Eye Larger Security Role for Private Sector
5. News: Hack at UC Berkeley Potentially Nets 1.4 Million SSNs
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Larry Seltzer
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Bad Input Bombs Your Program
A simple "fuzzer" program shows that most Web browsers are
easily crashed by malformed Web tags. Who'd have thought
that Internet Explorer would be the most robust!
This hardly means that Internet Explorer is more secure than
the alternatives, but it does put some perspective on the
whole matter of robustness and reputation. Sometimes it
doesn't matter whether you have hundreds of people looking
at a program, some bugs will just slip past all of them.
Read the rest of Larry's column here.
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Security Update
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1. News: IE Exploit Lets Attackers Plant Programs on SP2
Updated: New attack finds yet another leak in local resource
security that Windows XP Service Pack 2 and subsequent
patches were supposed to plug. Get the details now!
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1270-5-8-318676-140869-1
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2. News: Bush and GOP Sites Outage, DDoS Attack Suspected
Web sites for President Bush's campaign and the Republican
National Committee are investigating outages. Were they
hacked?
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1270-5-8-318676-140872-1
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3. News: Symantec Preps Anti-Spyware Launch as Revenue Climbs
Calling spyware relief the No. 1 issue in both consumer and
enterprise markets, Symantec executives promise a
comprehensive package in the next few weeks as they report
44 percent revenue gains over the year-ago quarter.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1270-5-8-318676-140875-1
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4. News: Feds Eye Larger Security Role for Private Sector
The people involved in securing the country's networks are
working out a new arrangement that may portend an
unprecedented level of cooperation between the Department of
Homeland Security and the private sector. Find out about
their evolving strategy.
http://eletters.eweek.com/zd1/cts?d=79-1270-5-8-318676-140878-1
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5. News: Hack at UC Berkeley Potentially Nets 1.4 Million SSNs
By exploiting a known vulnerability on an unpatched
computer, the hackers potentially gained access to some 1.4
million names, Social Security numbers and more relating to
a care program for the elderly.
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