Stories about: Internet Security Systems

Users of the open-source Asterisk VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) product are advised to upgrade their software, following the discovery of two vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to disrupt network service.

Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system's wireless device driver.

The bad blood between Cisco Systems and organizers of the Black Hat conference appears to be a thing of the past.

Internet Security Systems (ISS) has added Linux support to its Proventia Server Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) platform.

Internet Security Systems said it has uncovered a flaw in the most recent version of the Sendmail open-source code used primarily in Unix-based and some Windows-based e-mail gateways.

As security personnel met at this week's Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas, there was easy money to be made at the security vulnerability table.

Two separate imaging-related security flaws have surfaced in AOL's Netscape browser and in the KDE desktop environment for Unix and Linux, according to security experts. Both could allow an attacker to plant malicious code on a user's system when a specially crafted image is viewed by an affected application, such as a browser, e-mail program or stand-alone viewer, researchers said.

The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch Wednesday for a previously undisclosed hole in its popular Firefox Web browser and is encouraging Firefox users to download the software update as soon as possible.

A pair of vulnerability-assessment and remediation tool vendors are separately upgrading their products so that customers more easily can prioritize which networked systems need to be fixed.

Linux vendors are urging users to patch a serious bug in the graphical user interface of the popular Mplayer media player application, which could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a Linux or Unix system.

With the newest release of The SCO Group's UnixWare, it could be said that this variety of Unix is starting to look a lot more like Linux -- even if SCO lawyers pulled the Linux Kernel Personality modules from the operating system during the course of our testing last month.