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Secunia "Security Watchdog" Blog

The Secunia "Security Watchdog" Blog
The Secunia "Security Watchdog" Blog is used to communicate our opinions about vulnerabilities, security, ethics, and our responses to articles, research papers, and other blog entries regarding Secunia and vulnerabilities.

To get the facts about vulnerabilities read our Secunia advisories. To get our opinions read this Blog.


Secunia NSI 2.0 Final Release - try it for free
13:43 CET on the 2nd May 2008. Entry written by Thomas Kristensen.
Secunia has released the Secunia NSI 2.0 Read more


Free Public Beta test of Secunia NSI version 2
12:36 CET on the 11th April 2008. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
Get free instant access to try the new version of the Secunia NSI ? the corporate edition of the popular Secunia PSI. Read more


When does poor design become a vulnerability?
15:19 CET on the 28th February 2008. Entry written by Thomas Kristensen.
Lately there has been discussion about some SIP vendors not validating authentication certificates in their PEAP implementation, which can lead to a hacker gaining access to your computer if you inadvertently connect to a malicious server. Read more


A rough 24 hours for Windows users - 81.01% affected
13:22 CET on the 7th February 2008. Entry written by Thomas Kristensen.
The last 24 hours have been rough for Windows users. Sun, Adobe, Apple, and Skype have issued security updates - all four vendors correcting security holes that could lead to system compromise. Read more


Secunia PSI Reaches Milestone
10:43 CET on the 18th January 2008. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
Late yesterday evening the Secunia PSI reached an important milestone - a quarter of a million users! Read more


Interesting Statistics from the Secunia PSI
14:58 CET on the 9th January 2008. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
95 out of every 100 computers that are connected to the Internet have insecure software installed. Read more


Your security: 1 in 5 applications are not patched!
14:53 CET on the 21st December 2007. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
More than 20% of all applications installed on users PC's have known security flaws but the user have yet to install the patch provided by the vendor of product Read more


Secunia PSI - Release Candidate 1
16:24 CET on the 18th December 2007. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
We are proud to announce the availability of the Secunia PSI Release Candidate 1 (RC-1). Read more about the background and details for this release. Read more


Vendors still use the "legal" weapon
12:58 CET on the 6th December 2007. Entry written by Thomas Kristensen.
In these days, one would have believed that vendors have learned the lesson not to threaten with legal actions to withhold and suppress significant information about vulnerabilities in their products. Read more


25% of computers have vulnerable IrfanView installed
17:30 CET on the 18th October 2007. Entry written by Ina Ragragio.
The vulnerability is easily exploitable, as it only requires that a user is tricked into opening a specially crafted palette (.PAL) file. Read more


Secunia PSI BETA status after 2 months
15:48 CET on the 24th September 2007. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
Despite the facts that the Secunia PSI is a whole new type of IT-security solution for Windows users and it being in BETA testing - the Secunia PSI has achieved the remarkable result of being installed on more than 1 computer every minute on average since its release. Read more


Secunia PSI Public BETA Test
21:41 CET on the 31st July 2007. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
More than 30,000 users have already installed and tested the Secunia PSI BETA - Over 2,400,000 applications have been detected and categorised as Insecure, End-of-Life, or Up-To-Date. Read more


28% of all detected applications are insecure
13:36 CET on the 16th May 2007. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
Since its release in December of last year, the free, online Secunia Software Inspector has conducted over 350,000 inspections. These inspections have identified 4.9 million popular applications, and out of those, 1.4 million applications were found to be lacking critical security patches from the vendors. Read more


The Secunia Research Team reports another IE vulnerability
12:09 CET on the 9th May 2007. Entry written by Ina Ragragio.
The Secunia Research Team doesn't just analyse and test vulnerability reports made by third party researchers. They also conduct research on their own, which is why they're able to identify a rather large quantity of vulnerabilities through in-house research. Read more


Network Software Inspector - BETA Program
11:52 CET on the 24th April 2007. Entry written by Thomas Kristensen.
Last December, Secunia released the Software Inspector, a revolutionary tool that changed the way users all across the globe identified missing security updates. Read more


New Internet Explorer 7 Spoofing Vulnerability
10:36 CET on the 16th March 2007. Entry written by Ina Ragragio.
There's a new spoofing vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7, one that could again be exploited by web criminals to perform phishing attacks. Read more


Quicktime - Update me and stay vulnerable!
17:08 CET on the 25th January 2007. Entry written by Thomas Kristensen.
But now the patch is out, all is forgiven and everyone is happy, because now they can secure their system. Right? WRONG! Read more


Secunia Research finds vulnerability in ActiveX control
10:07 CET on the 24th January 2007. Entry written by Ina Ragragio.
The vulnerable component, NCTAudioFile2.dll, was originally developed by NCT Company Ltd. and is known to be present in more than 70 products from 28 different software companies. Read more


Release of Secunia End-of-Year Report
15:31 CET on the 22nd December 2006. Entry written by Ina Ragragio.
A 19-page report on some of the more interesting stories from this year, such as the Microsoft 0-day attacks, and the release of our Software Inspector, and some vulnerability statistics from our very own advisory database. Read more


Followup on the Secunia Software Inspector Release
16:27 CET on the 11th December 2006. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
We just want to update you on the successful release of the Secunia Software Inspector. During a little more than half a week the Secunia Software Inspector has detected more than 400,000 applications on users systems, tagging one third of them as being insecure! Read more


Secunia Launches the Software Inspector
13:00 CET on the 6th December 2006. Entry written by Jakob Balle.
The Secunia Software Inspector is a free service that detects insecure versions of software that you may have installed in your system. When insecure versions are detected, the Secunia Software Inspector also provides thorough guidelines for updating the software to the latest secure version from the vendor. Read more


Standing up and taking responsibility!
10:40 CET on the 31st October 2006. Entry written by Thomas Kristensen, CTO.
Two years, a new release of IE, and still no fix for the "Window Injection" issue. Users are at risk and Microsoft calls it a non-issue. Read more


Welcome to the Secunia "Security Watchdog" Blog
9:17 CET on the 31st October 2006. Entry written by Secunia.
Secunia is proud to announce the availability of the Secunia "Security Watchdog" blog. The Secunia "Security Watchdog" Blog will contain our response and opinions when vendors, researchers, articles, or a research paper calls for it.


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