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Adobe Patches Flash Player for Second Time in 20 Days
PCWorld
By Gregg Keizer, Computerworld Adobe today patched a pair of critical
vulnerabilities in Flash Player and told IT administrators to apply the
update within 30 days. The update was the second for Flash this year; Adobe
last patched it less than three ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/251291/adobe_patches_flash_player_for_second_time_in_20_days.html>
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Adobe Issues Out-of-band Updates for Flash
PCWorld
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG-News-Service:Sydney-Bureau Adobe issued patches on
Monday for two critical vulnerabilities in its Flash player found by
employees of Google's Security Team. The company issued the fixes outside
of its normal patching schedule, ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/251347/adobe_issues_outofband_updates_for_flash.html>
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Google patches 14 Chrome bugs, pays record $47K in bounties and bonuses
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Google yesterday patched 14 vulnerabilities
in Chrome and handed out a record $47500 in rewards to researchers,
including $30000 for "sustained, extraordinary" contributions to its
bug-reporting program.
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Google patches 14 high-risk Chrome browser holes
ZDNet (blog)
By Ryan Naraine | March 5, 2012, 1:04pm PST Summary: The vulnerabilities
were fixed in the newest Google Chrome 17.0.963.65 (Windows, Mac, Linux and
Chrome Frame). Google has shipped yet another Chrome browser update to fix
more that a dozen ...
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/google-patches-14-high-risk-chrome-browser-holes/10497>
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Adobe warns of 'critical' Flash Player security holes
ZDNet (blog)
By Ryan Naraine | March 5, 2012, 1:16pm PST Summary: The vulnerabilities,
rated "critical," have been fixed for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and
Solaris OS users. A pair of researchers in Google's security team has found
gaping holes in Adobe's ubiquitous ...
<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/adobe-warns-of-critical-flash-player-security-holes/10502>
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Chrome Shines Bright In Controversial Security Fight
InformationWeek
Major browsers have all made solid strides in security in the past few
years, but Chrome's sandbox makes Google's browser a harder target,
researchers say at RSA. By Robert Lemos, Dark Reading RSA CONFERENCE
2012--San Francisco--The major browsers have ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/232602014>
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Malware photo vulnerability also on Android
SmartCompany.com.au
... a users' photo library Given the growth of "BYO devices" in business
(where employees use their own smartphones, tablets, laptops, and netbooks
for work purposes), security vulnerabilities in consumer mobile devices are
a growing concern for business.
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Google Patches 14 Chrome Vulnerabilities
eSecurity Planet
"These payments are in addition to the normal rewards that Google pays
researchers who find and report security vulnerabilities in Chrome, and
they represent a new kind of reward from the company," Fisher writes.
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iPad Hack Offers Warning Against Jailbreaking iPads
PC Magazine
Since then, the vulnerability that researchers used to create the hack has
been patched, meaning that the methods the researchers used won't work. But
for those who are interested, McAfee will will release the paper for public
consumption at 9 PM PT on ...
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401166,00.asp>
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GitHub hacked, millions of projects at risk of being modified or deleted
ExtremeTech
Over the weekend, developer Egor Homakov exploited a gaping vulnerability
in GitHub that allowed him (or anyone else with basic hacker know-how) to
gain administrator access to projects such as Ruby on Rails, Linux, and
millions of others.
<http://www.extremetech.com/computing/120981-github-hacked-millions-of-projects-at-risk-of-being-modified-or-deleted>
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