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Researchers Expose Flaws in Popular Industrial Control Systems PCWorld The vulnerabilities ranged from information disclosure and privilege escalation bugs to remote denial-of-service (DoS) and arbitrary code execution flaws. The research team, which included Reid Wightman, Dillon Beresford, Jacob Kitchel, ... See all stories on this topic »

Hoping to Teach a Lesson, Researchers Release Exploits for Critical ... Wired News (blog) The vulnerabilities were found in widely used programmable logic controllers (PLCs) made by General Electric, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Modicon, Koyo Electronics and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. PLCs are used in industrial control systems ... See all stories on this topic » Wired News (blog)

Professor examines sexual harassment among youth the Inkwell Regina Rahimi is the coauthor of "Pervasive Vulnerabilities," available now at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. "From name calling (daily), to ogling and cat calling in public spaces, to grabbing young women's buttocks in the middle of class, ... See all stories on this topic »

IE URI encoding behavior facilitates XSS attacks, researchers say ITworld.com "In fact, on XSSed.com (a site for public disclosure of XSS vulnerabilities), the vulnerability's presence is beginning to be felt," he said. "We have seen reported sites that are exposed to XSS attacks on IE only, due to its encoding bug. ... See all stories on this topic »

Security Flaw Discovered in RIM Playbook; RIM Claims Vulnerability Issue Resolved ITProPortal Security researchers have revealed that Research In Motion's PlayBook tablet suffers from certain vulnerabilities that leaves corporate email and other vital user information stored on the device exposed to dark forces in the virtual world. ... See all stories on this topic »

FedCyber Webinar: The Security Development Lifecycle SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) There are many other places in a computer system where security can fail, from web-based attacks such as SQL injections for which vulnerabilities are almost ubiquitous to insecure data configuration and human error by users. ... See all stories on this topic »

Survey: 50% of Small to Mid-Sized Businesses Don't Scan Web Applications for ... MarketWatch (press release) "Web application vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL Injection attacks make up an increasing percentage of newly discovered vulnerabilities and reported cyber-attacks. Web applications also change faster than many other business ... See all stories on this topic »

Digital Bond and Tenable Network Security Collaborate on Continuous Critical ... MarketWatch (press release) Tenable's Passive Vulnerability Scanner plugins allow a control system network to be monitored continuously without any interaction or impact to the network. The PVS not only identifies these PLC vulnerabilities, it also discovers a wide variety of ... See all stories on this topic »

Love online: 100000 Grindr users exposed in hack attack Sydney Morning Herald The vulnerabilities are also present in Blendr, the straight version of the app, according to a security expert who said both apps had "no real security" and were "poorly designed". Fairfax Media is not aware that Blendr has been hacked but the ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

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