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Google Ups Bug Bounties Amid Booming Exploit Market
InformationWeek
Google's base reward for a vulnerability disclosure is $500, but the
company says it typically pays out $1000 and even $10000 or more for
particularly impressive bug finds. Security researchers Arthur Gerkis and
Aki Helin are among those who have ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/security/management/google-ups-bug-bounties-amid-booming-exp/240005721>
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Malware wars heat up: Shamoon steals, wipes and leaves PCs unbootable
Computerworld (blog)
"Why would someone invest time to prepare a campaign, send a
spear-phishing email with a malicious document attached and waste a 0-day
vulnerability in order to silently install a sophisticated malware?"
Seculert asked. But Symantec reported this ...
<http://blogs.computerworld.com/malware-and-vulnerabilities/20851/malware-wars-heat-shamoon-steals-wipes-and-leaves-pcs-unbootable>
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Antivirus Suites Struggle to Defend Against Recent Exploit-based Attacks
CIO
The firm looked at the ability of 13 antivirus suites to defend unpatched
systems against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's XML Core
Services (CVE-2012-1889) and in Internet Explorer 8.0 (CVE-2012-1875), both
made public in June ...
<http://www.cio.com/article/714014/Antivirus_Suites_Struggle_to_Defend_Against_Recent_Exploit_based_Attacks>
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Google Ups Ante for Chrome Bug Hunters
CIO Today
The Chromium Vulnerability Rewards Program continues to cover
vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash as well as other well-known software such as
the Linux kernel, various open-source libraries and daemons, X windows, and
so on. Bugs are an unpleasant fact of ...
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Rapid7 Receives Highest Possible Rating of 'Strong Positive' in Leading ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Nexpose proactively supports the entire vulnerability management lifecycle,
including discovery, assessment and mitigation of security threats,
including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and malware kits. This gives
organizations immediate insight ...
<http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2012/08/17/rapid7-receives-highest-possible-rating-strong-positive-leading-analyst-firm%E2%80%99s-vulnerabil>
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Google warning of missing Adobe Reader patches for Chrome
Techworld.com
Adobe released a new version of Reader on Tuesday that fixed about 20
vulnerabilities in the Mac and Windows versions of the product. Despite the
large number of flaws addressed in the patches, a number of serious
vulnerabilities remained untouched, ...
<http://news.techworld.com/applications/3376607/google-warning-of-missing-adobe-reader-patches-for-chrome/>
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As Bug Bounty Programs Mature, Still More Room For Growth
Threatpost (blog)
Google's recent announcements that the company is doubling some of the
rewards in its Chromium Vulnerability Reward Program and will also be
committing up to $2 million for another round of the Pwnium contest in a
couple of months brought a round of ...
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/bug-bounty-programs-mature-still-more-room-growth-081712>
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Real-time monitoring now accomplished much more easily
Crain's Cleveland Business (blog)
You really need all this information to keep on top of vulnerabilities; you
just need to be able to look at it in such a way that what's most important
will be obvious so that you can take the needed steps to make your data
more secure. Note: A very ...
<http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20120817/BLOGS05/308179999>
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