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  • JavaScript opens doors to browser-based attacks

    Security researchers have found a way to use JavaScript to map a home or corporate network and attack connected servers or devices, such as printers or routers.

  • Nessus security tool closes its source

    The source code of one of the world's most popular free security tools will no longer be available to all, with its creator stating its open source licence was fuelling competition against his company

  • Microsoft tries to quell TCP/IP 'danger'

    To fully implement TCP/IP in Windows XP would make denial of service attacks a walk in the park, Microsoft said.

  • Microsoft plays tag with 'raw sockets'

    Microsoft's continued disabling of a Windows XP TCP/IP feature has prompted a security guru to claim Redmond was asking his peers to "pick their poison".

  • Evil bit arrives on April Fools'

    Perhaps one of the better April fool's jokes to pass around on Tuesday was the suggestion that security engineers had made a change to the IPV4 protocol to include an "evil bit" flag to detect malicious traffic.

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