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Website Vulnerabilities Fall, but Hackers Become More Skilled
PCWorld
The average number of serious vulnerabilities introduced to websites by
developers in 2011 was 148, down from 230 in 2010 and 480 in 2009, said
Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer for WhiteHat Security, which
specializes in testing websites for ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/253927/website_vulnerabilities_fall_but_hackers_become_more_skilled.html>
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Team Identifies Water Vulnerability in Border Region
UA News (press release)
A team of bilingual and binational researchers from the University of
Arizona and the Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico has issued
a casebook that depicts the water vulnerability and potential adaptation to
climate change throughout the ...
<http://uanews.org/node/46373>
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Embedded system security much more dangerous, costly than traditional
software ...
ITworld.com
"Attackers can start leveraging disclosures we see around vulnerabilities
in SCADA systems and do something really horrifying. That will pour
attention, regulation and investment into the problem," Viega says. That's
one outcome.
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Second Major Mac Vulnerability Exposed Through Office
Bright Side of News*
Just like the Flashback Trojan discovered a few weeks ago, which had been
found to have infected over 600000 Macs globally, this newest virus
exploits a new vulnerability on Mac computers. While the Flashback virus
was found to have exploited a Java ...
<http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/4/16/second-major-mac-vulnerability-exposed-through-office.aspx>
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Two Mac Trojans: Apple Patching Fast Enough?
InformationWeek (blog)
(Apple has yet to release a related security fix for any previous versions
of OS X.) Apple, which normally refuses to comment on any vulnerabilities
in its products until after it's released a fix, broke with tradition by
last week confirming that it ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232900362>
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Checking for the new SabPub malware in OS X
CNET
While this vulnerability has been linked in the media to Flashback, it
appears the same vulnerability is being attempted by other criminal malware
developers as well. When exploits to vulnerabilities are found by
criminals, many times they are packaged ...
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57414617-83/checking-for-the-new-sabpub-malware-in-os-x/>
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Subpab Mac OS X trojan discovered, preys on the same Java vulnerability
as ...
Ubergizmo
The trojan uses the same Java threat that spawned the Flashback trojan, but
luckily the Subpab has been reported to be not as widespread and that Mac
OS X users who have updated their computers that patched the Java
vulnerabilities should be safe.
<http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/subpab-mac-os-x-trojan-discovered-preys-on-the-same-java-vulnerability-as-flashback/>
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Steps Taken to Fix Federal Debt Vulnerabilities
GovInfoSecurity.com
... and intragovernmental debt holdings, the related accrued interest
payables and the related net unamortized premiums and discounts managed by
the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of the Public Debt. Steps Taken to
Fix Federal Debt Vulnerabilities.
<http://www.govinfosecurity.com/steps-taken-to-fix-federal-debt-vulnerabilities-a-4680>
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How MSPs Can Mitigate the SMB Mobile Device Risk
MSPmentor
The study, which examined more than 134 mobile operating system and
application vulnerabilities, found that 71 percent of devices analyzed
contained high severity operating system and application vulnerabilities.
In addition, a new high severity ...
<http://www.mspmentor.net/2012/04/16/how-msps-can-mitigate-the-smb-mobile-device-risk/>
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New malware threatens Mac OS X
USA TODAY
By Matthew Panzarino, The Next Web In a set of recent updates to Mac OS X,
Apple patched a vulnerability in Java that had allowed a malware infection
known as Flashback to spread to some 700000 of its computers. Now, a new
backdoor Java threat called ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-04-16/apple-mac-java/54317794/1>
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