Thursday, March 29, 2012

Google Alert - Vulnerabilities

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Flash Player 11.2 Fixes Critical Vulnerabilities, Adds Silent Updates
PCWorld
By Lucian Constantin, IDG News Adobe released Flash Player 11.2 on Tuesday,
addressing two critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities and
introducing a silent update option. One of the patched vulnerabilities
stems from how older versions of ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/252755/flash_player_112_fixes_critical_vulnerabilities_adds_silent_updates.html>
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Flash Player 11.2 fixes critical vulnerabilities
Australian Macworld
Adobe released Flash Player 11.2 on Wednesday, addressing two critical
arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities and introducing a silent update
option. One of the patched vulnerabilities stems from how older versions of
Flash Player checks URL security ...
<http://www.macworld.com.au/news/flash-player-11-2-fixes-critical-vulnerabilities-48740/>
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Boston Fed'​s Rosengren Talks on Vulnerabilities in Short-​Term Funding
Crane Data LLC
Rosengren says in the middle of his talk, "This past financial crisis was a
primer on vulnerabilities to short-​term funding. Specifically, wholesale
funding utilized by large global banks dried up during the financial
crisis.
<http://cranedata.com/archives/all-articles/3905/>
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Sonatype not out to slam open source
ITworld.com
The problem, he explained, was just the opposite: open source was so freely
available, developers and organizations could have vulnerabilities buried
deep in their own code and not even know it. One of the cool things about
open source software is that ...
<http://www.itworld.com/security/263064/sonatype-not-out-slam-open-source>
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Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Google, Facebook Single Sign-On
TechWeekEurope UK
"Vulnerabilities that do not show up on the protocol level could be
brought in by what the system actually allows each SSO party to do: an
example we discovered is that Adobe Flash's cross-domain capability totally
crippled Facebook SSO security," the ...
<http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/google-facebook-security-69918>
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Kenneth Van Wyk: The case for Rugged Software
Computerworld
We've all spent years chasing patches and vulnerabilities, but we don't
seem to be making positive progress on that front. As John Wilander, my
fellow "invited expert" at Rugged Software sessions held this month in
Washington, wrote in a blog post, ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225630/Kenneth_Van_Wyk_The_case_for_Rugged_Software>
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White House: no contingency plan if healthcare law rejected
Reuters
* Top officials have cited options in the past * Analysts see
vulnerabilities for Obama's base * Any action unlikely until after November
vote (Adds quotes, details and background) By David Morgan and Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - The ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/usa-healthcare-contingency-idUSL2E8QS19Q20120328>
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Adobe Streamlines Update Process with Flash 11.2
PCWorld
The update addresses a couple critical vulnerabilities, but the real news
from Flash 11.2 are the changes Adobe has made to the background updating
mechanics. The Flash update should be applied as soon as possible from a
security perspective.
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/252757/adobe_streamlines_update_process_with_flash_112.html>
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Adobe streamlines Flash Player updates by going silent
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Adobe yesterday released Flash Player 11.2,
adding silent updating to speed patching of "zero-day" vulnerabilities in
the Windows edition. "Improving the update process is probably the single
most important challenge we ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225624/Adobe_streamlines_Flash_Player_updates_by_going_silent>
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