Welcome to the Network Security website at the IAS

This website is intended to bring you the latest news, how to's, tools and resources in Information Security.  Security Awareness of our Faculty, Members and Staff is key in creating a safer computing environment.

The three major Principles of Information Security, Availability, Integrity and Confidentiality, will be covered throughout the security awareness program at the Institute.  For a description of these principles, please see our About section.

In keeping with the spirit of the Institute, I encourage questions and open discussions about security.  And if you discover anything out of the ordinary, please feel free to bring it to my attention so that we can work together to create a more productive, safer environment.

Thanks,
Brian Epstein <security@ias.edu>
twitter: @epepepep

Firefox 5 Released

Submitted by securityadmin on

https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/releasenotes/

"Mozilla released the latest version of their browser, Firefox 5. With
the update comes a host of new features and also addresses a number
of security vulnerabilities[1]. Firefox 3.6.x will remain in support
for 'a short amount of time'. Anyone still using Firefox 3 are
recommended to upgrade to Firefox 4.x or later to continue receiving
security updates."

LibreOffice 3.3 'Lotus Word Pro' document import filter contains multiple vulnerabilities

Submitted by securityadmin on

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/953183

"LibreOffice 3.3.2 includes a feature to import 'Lotus Word Pro' (.lwp)
documents. This import filter contains multiple vulnerabilities. CERT/CC
has confirmed that code execution is possible by exploiting a stack
buffer overflow."

Wordpress 3.2 released

Submitted by securityadmin on

Wordpress 3.2 was released on July 4th. It has many new features to
improve user-experience and speed, but it also includes updates from
WordPress 3.1.4, which fixes several important security issues.

More about the new 3.2 release, with highlights video:
https://wordpress.org/news/2011/07/gershwin/

More about the security update 3.1.4:
https://wordpress.org/news/2011/06/wordpress-3-1-4/

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