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IT Security industry leader eEye Digital Security hosts popular online session. Irvine, CA (PRWEB) December 14, 2010 eEye Digital Security, a leading provider of IT security vulnerability management solutions, today announced its upcoming Vulnerability Expert Forum (VEF) will comprehensively address the largest Patch Tuesday to-date, in which Microsoft will issue 17 Security Bulletins addressing 40 vulnerabilities. Notably, two of the vulnerabilities are rated "Critical," 14...

BEIJING, Nov. 25, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Today, China's leading network security services provider, Qihoo 360, released an emergency network security warning, claiming that it has first discovered an Exploit Code of an 18-year latent high-risk 0day vulnerability that affects all Windows versions. This vulnerability named as "elder" is very likely to confront worldwide computer users with a new round of malicious attacks. However, netizens on the Chinese Mainland do not need to worry...

Security industry leader expands integration capabilities of its Retina Unified Vulnerability Management solution Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) November 16, 2010 eEye Digital Security, a leading provider of IT security vulnerability management solutions, today announced that its Retina Unified Vulnerability Management solution integrates with Metasploit for penetration testing. With the new Retina integration, eEye customers are given another option for integrated penetration testing, in addition...

Hackers are being given a potent new tool for hacking into Oracle Corp's database, the best-selling software used by corporations to hoard electronic data.Security specialists have created simple, automated software that can sneak into Oracle databases over the Internet to replicate attacks on computer systems. However, the new software can be used by cybercrooks to hack into systems.The tool's builders constructed it with the open-source software preparation Metasploit, which allows its...

Just one day after Microsoft distributed a rare emergency security patch, hackers have found new ways to exploit the bug.  Security researchers identified a new trojan called Gimmiv on Friday, after a hacker had posted an early sample of code that could be used to take advantage of the flaw on the Internet.Since the bug could be used to create an Internet worm attack, Microsoft issued the patch more than two weeks ahead of its next security update.  In fact, the software giant said...

SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. warned about a new computer virus that exploits a vulnerability in its PowerPoint presentation software to allow hackers to infiltrate computer systems.Microsoft issued an advisory on the company's security Web log on July 17 about the virus, which is carried out when a user launches a PowerPoint attachment to an e-mail or opens a file provided to them by the attacker.Hackers could also lure users to a Web page that offers content or advertisements containing a file...