The traditional point product antivirus, anti-spyware and personal firewall markets have been eclipsed by broader suites of related security technologies, which Gartner has labeled the EPP. Basic component technologies in EPP suites include antivirus, anti-spyware, HIPS and a personal firewall. Advanced EPP suites will include network access control (NAC) ...

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 ...

A zero-day exploit is one that takes advantage of a security vulnerability on the same day that the vulnerability becomes generally known. Ordinarily, after someone detects that a software program contains a potential exposure to exploitation by a hacker, that person or company can notify the software company and sometimes ...

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 ...