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  • Hackers could reverse-engineer Microsoft patches to create DoS attacks

    The <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> company Qualys this week demonstrated how to reverse-engineer a <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> patch in order to launch a denial-of-service attack on <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> DNS <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/server.html">Server</a>.

  • Vendor launches open source web firewall

    Today's web application firewalls are not up to the challenge of securing cloud systems according to security company Qualys, which has set out its alternative vision based on building a new generation using open source development.

  • One in five PCs still hackable by Conficker

    Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about one in five business computers still lack the patch, a security company says.

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