For vendors of traditional signature based systems (most IDSs and IPSs), zero day protection is the ability to protect against zero day exploits. They rely on the fact that they know ahead of time of a particular vulnerability. This allows them to provide signatures for the mere attempt to take ...

An Italian security researcher has posted a proof-of-concept exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in the most current version of Apple's QuickTime media software (7.3.1).Luigi Auriemma, noted among other things for discovering a vulnerability in the Unreal Engine in 2004, on Thursday posted details about producing a buffer overflow ...

On September 21, Apple released two security patches that protect essentially every Mac that uses AirPort against malformed frames passed over 802.11b networks. That’s the vulnerability I wrote about last month, which may or may not have been a real threat to Mac users. “So,” you say. “The problem’s been fixed, ...