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Irene Showed Vulnerabilities And Value Of Mobile Home Parks
Vermont Public Radio
Every Irene flood survivor has their own story about when they first
realized this was no ordinary storm. For Red Gallagher, who lives at
Weston's mobile home park in Berlin, the moment came when he saw the Dog
River spread like a rising tide over the ...
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Google raises ante for next Chrome hacking contest to $2M
Computerworld
For what Google calls a "full Chrome exploit" -- one that successfully
hacks Chrome on Windows 7 using only vulnerabilities in Chrome itself --
Google will pay $60000 -- the same amount it handed out at the first
Pwnium. A partial exploit that uses one ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230338/Google_raises_ante_for_next_Chrome_hacking_contest_to_2M?taxonomyId=82>
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Paydirt: Vulnerabilities found to foil popular DDoS toolkit
SC Magazine Australia
Thanks to a string of simple coding vulnerabilities, it was possible to
access the C&C database and server-side configuration files with open
source pen testing tools, anti-DDoS vendor Prolexic said. "With this
information, it is possible to access the ...
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Google researchers expose unpatched flaws in Adobe Reader
InfoWorld
Two Google security researchers have accused Adobe of failing to fix
various reported vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader in a timely manner and are
using the delay as justification to publicize details behind the security
holes. The duo also has ...
<http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-security/google-researchers-expose-unpatched-flaws-in-adobe-reader-200280>
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Google Boosts Chromium Vulnerability Rewards
eSecurity Planet
Google will add the bonuses to the base payments -- which range from $500
to $3133 -- for bugs that are 'particularly exploitable,' found in the more
bug-free sections of Chrome's code, and for vulnerabilities that affect
more than just the browser ...
<http://www.esecurityplanet.com/browser-security/google-boosts-chromium-vulnerability-rewards.html>
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Tridium patches control systems bug after a year
Register
The announcement of the vulnerabilities comes nearly synchronously with the
announcement of the patch – and ounce again highlights the slack security
attitudes endemic in the industrial control segment. According to the
researchers that turned up the ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/16/tridium_issues_patch/>
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CYCLOPS Gene Points To Vulnerability in Cancer
CSICON
... including the way that individual genes express themselves in cancer's
basic mechanism. This will allow us to understand cancer's vulnerabilities
from a genetic level. More information can be found at the Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute. (via Science ...
<http://www.csicon.org/cyclops-gene-points-to-vulnerability-in-cancer/>
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Antivirus suites struggle to defend against recent exploit-based attacks
Consumer Tech
Tech4Biz | 17 Aug 2012 : Many antivirus suites are incapable of effectively
blocking malware attacks against two recent and serious Microsoft
vulnerabilities despite the fact that real exploits have been circulating
since June, testing organisation NSS ...
<http://www.techcentral.ie/19638/antivirus-suites-struggle-to-defend-against-recent-exploit-based-attacks>
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