In my last post we discussed the most dangerous kind of vulnerabilities that we classify at McAfee Labs: remote code execution and denial of service. Today, we’ll talk about vulnerabilities that are not so dangerous, those we classify as Medium or Low Risk. These threats still require our attention because they can create a chain Read more…
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Welcome back to Security 101. The topic of today’s blog is vulnerabilities. In our frequent McAfee Labs Threat Advisories you see the term vulnerability in almost every item. “A vulnerability has been found…” or “A vulnerability in some versions of…” are commonplace. What is a vulnerability? A vulnerability is a program bug that under certain Read more…
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When I started working at McAfee, I noticed that many of the terms commonly used here were completely unknown to me. Fortunately I had no problems understanding them, but I’m sure that more than one person has read a McAfee security update and thought “What does this mean?” This question is more likely when a Read more…
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