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Source: Sydney Morning Herald - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A spate of hacking tools infected with malicious software, or malware, threatens to destroy the credibility of the growing hacktivist movement, writes Adam Turner. |
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Source: BusinessWeek - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Jeroen Frijters describes himself as an “accidental” hacker, a guy who trips over security holes the way a pedestrian stumbles over a sidewalk crack. In July the Dutch software engineer discovered the Grand Canyon of sidewalk cracks: a serious vulnerability in Java, one of the most widely used programming languages and a building block of many websites. He reported the flaw to Oracle (ORCL), which oversees Java.
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Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Two weeks after its last security update, the Joomla! project has published another update to the 2.5.x branch of its open source content management system (CMS) which addresses two vulnerabilities. Version 2.5.4 of Joomla! closes an information disclosure hole that allowed unauthorised access to administrative information and fixes a problem that could have been exploited by an attacker to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Versions 2.5.0 to 2.5.3 are affected. |
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Source: The Register UK - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Pastebin.com has promised to police content on its site more tightly by hiring staff to delete data dumps and other sensitive information more quickly.
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Anthony Pell
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The vulnerability was described as a “memory safety problem in the array.join function” and was bundled into a security advisory that carries a critical rating. |
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Over a year ago, a little Firefox add-on program called Firesheep showed just how easy it was to snoop on people on the same Wi-Fi network. Since then, more and more Web sites, like Facebook and Twitter, are securing their Web sites by default. Now, Google is continuing its own push into making its search sites more secure. |
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Source: Hexus - Posted by Anthony Pell
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It's that time again folks, the hosting of the Pwn2Own hacking contest. This year has, for the first time, seen Google's Chrome browser fall almost immediately to two zero-day exploits, which had avoided discovery for the past three years. |
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Source: CSO Online - Posted by Anthony Pell
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The eyes of the online world are on Joe Sullivan. As the CSO of Facebook, Sullivan is without a doubt one of the most visible security chiefs in the business. He must mitigate myriad security and privacy risks not only for Facebook's employees and corporate systems, but also for the social network's 800 million members. |
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Source: H Security - Posted by Alex
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The PostgreSQL development team has published updates for all actively supported branches of its open source relational database to fix bugs and close security holes found in the previous releases.
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Source: v3 - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Oracle is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers a 30-day free trial of its Ksplice zero-downtime security patch technology, in an apparent move to tempt them into switching to its own Oracle Linux platform.
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