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Oracle to patch 88 vulnerabilities
iT News
By Greg Masters on Apr 16, 2012 11:53 AM (53 minutes ago) Oracle will
release 88 vulnerability fixes across hundreds of its offerings as part of
a scheduled quarterly security update. The fixes address flaws in its
popular database servers, ...
<http://www.itnews.com.au/News/297076,oracle-to-patch-88-vulnerabilities.aspx>
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Apple slow to send fix for Flashback virus on Macs
San Francisco Chronicle
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, ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/15/BUQH1O2NO6.DTL&type=tech>
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Student giving 'hacker' a good name
Bennington Banner
While the tournament's challenge is to hack into a different model
'corporate computer systems' or 'bank websites,' what participants are
actually doing is displaying the ability to detect vulnerabilities -- a
skill corporations rely on to protect ...
<http://www.benningtonbanner.com/ci_20404465/student-giving-lsquo-hacker-good-name>
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Hospitals Seeing More Patient Data Breaches
PCWorld
"Use of new technologies, in particular mobile devices in the workplace,
have skyrocketed, creating new operational efficiencies and security
vulnerabilities," noted the survey report, entitled the "2012 HIMSS
Analytics Report: Security of Patient Data ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/253827/hospitals_seeing_more_patient_data_breaches.html>
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Will we trade freedom for application security?
Network World
The world has a "critical dependence" on applications, but only too often
those apps are riddled with security vulnerabilities and shoddy or bloated
code. According to Verizon's 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report [PDF]:
"Web applications abound in ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/80291>
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Upcoming Firefox click-to-play feature will stop automated plug-in exploits
CSO
... Firefox feature that will block the automated display of plug-in-based
content like Flash videos, Java applets or PDF files, and will protect
users from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins to
install malware on their computers.
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