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New Cumulative Patch for IIS

October 31, 2002

Microsoft has issued a new roll-up patch for Internet Information Server 4.0 through 5.1 in security bulletin MS02-062. The update includes all previously released fixes for IIS; in addition, it also patches four new vulnerabilities. Most of these holes are low to moderate risk issues – none of them allow remote command execution or system […]

Multiple XSS Bugs in PHPNuke

October 16, 2002

Seven new cross-site scripting vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHPNuke 6.0, a popular content management system used to power tens of thousands of web sites. Most of these issues could lead to the compromise of a site user’s cookies, which would give an attacker the ability to log-in as the victim. Two of the scripting […]

N-Stealth in TechSupportAlert

October 16, 2002

N-Stealth HTTP Security Scanner is in TechSupportAlert Issue 83. “N-Stealth is a Web vulnerability assessment product that will really test out your Web server security. I tried it out on three hosting services and N-Stealth found vulnerabilities in all three” said Gizmo Richards, editor of TechSupportAlert.com. For more data on the TechSupportAlert, see: http://www.techsupportalert.com. Be […]

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