SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Corrupted file Cybersecurity - or lack thereof - alarms experts  Sep 16, 2009 The researchers concluded that criminals are primarily using "spear-phishing schemes" (in which they profile specific victims and often design socially engineered e-mails to trick them into downloading a corrupted file) or turning trusted but insecure Web sites into vehicles for malicious content. The study found that organizations are patching client-side vulnerabilities three to five times slower than operating-system vulnerabilities, said Alan Paller, research director at SANS Institute, a... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology) Fallout 3: The Pitt Review  Apr 1, 2009 Shortly after it was first put up, The Pitt, due to a corrupted file. It took roughly a day for Bethesda and Microsoft to work everything out and get a fixed version back up for purchase. (IGN PC Games) One-Member, One-Vote: A Way for Primary Elections in Ghana  Mar 23, 2009 But what do you do with a corrupted file. You clean it up by either finding the cause of the corruption or you shut it down and install a new system. (Ghana Web, Ghana) Microsoft Clamps Down on Excel Zero-Day Attack  Feb 28, 2009 According to the Microsoft blog, the attack triggers a buffer overrun when Excel parses, or reads, a corrupted file. A buffer overrun, or overflow, occurs when an application tries to store more data than a buffer can hold, and can cause crashes. (SmallBusinessComputing) Back to Technology News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009