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H1 OS Desktop Vulnerability Report – Get It Now
You might know Jeff Jones' work on the different vulnerability reports comparing different products and vendors. Our goal is to understand and measure our progress and see where we stand with regards to the industry. Today, Jeff release his OS Desktop Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 03:05 by rhalbh | 3 Comments   
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Announcing the Exploitability Index
At Blackhat we announced an important change to our Security Bulletins becoming effective during the October release. One of the requests we often heard talking to our customers is, that they would like to get better information on how hard it is to exploit Read More...
Posted 06 August 08 06:23 by rhalbh | 1 Comments   
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0-Day-Patch – An new Metric for Security?
The Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich released a study at Blackhat, which is definitely worth looking into. Now, let's be serious: They looked at a metric they call 0-Day-Patch being the number of patches a vendor is able to release at the day Read More...
Posted 18 April 08 09:51 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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HP confirms vulnerabilities on 82 Laptop models.
Remember this post OEMs: Join in to "Secure by Default" ? I wrote it in June… Now, HP just confirmed a vulnerability in their software delivered on 82 laptop models on all the different Windows versions: HP Quick Launch Buttons Critical Security Update Read More...
Posted 15 December 07 11:17 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Paper on the Root DNS Attacks
You remeber for sure the Root DNS Attacks earlier this year, where a DDoS attacked different root servers. There is a pretty good analysis paper by ICANN published now: http://www.icann.org/announcements/factsheet-dns-attack-08mar07.pdf Gives some insights Read More...
Posted 09 March 07 03:29 by rhalbh | 0 Comments   
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Do we have to move away from SHA-1 immediately
Sometimes it is interesting how certain themes keep popping up again and again. But let's start at the beginning: For example in the field of public key cryptography we make use of so-called hash functions. A hash function is a function which turns data Read More...
Posted 28 January 07 06:54 by rhalbh | 2 Comments   
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