Internet Security Systems Inc Archives

Internet Bigs Back Single Sign-On

By Bob Keefe
Feb 8, 2008
LinuxInsider
636 Words

It's the bane of anyone who uses the Internet: remembering different user IDs, passwords and registration information for sites you use regularly. Soon, you may not have to. Some of the Internet's biggest players -- Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and VeriSign -- are working on a new single sign-on th...

Flaw Found in Snort Intrusion Detection Product

By Tim Gray
Feb 21, 2007
LinuxInsider
376 Words

A new vulnerability in Snort, an open source intrusion-detection system, enables hackers to inject hostile code into exposed systems. Sourcefire, the company behind the Snort package, said hackers could remotely gain control of systems running the software and execute malicious code, as well as gain...

Security Vulnerability in Linux Qt Toolkit Fixed

By Elizabeth Millard
Aug 24, 2004
LinuxInsider
625 Words

Linux vendors have issued patches to address vulnerability in Qt, a software toolkit that simplifies writing and maintaining GUI applications for the X Window system. The flaw was unveiled by security researcher Chris Evans, who uncovered a heap overflow in the BMP image decoder in Qt versions prior...