Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Google Alert - Vulnerabilities

=== News - 9 new results for [Vulnerabilities] ===

Researcher finds critical vulnerabilities in Sophos antivirus product
PCWorld
Security researcher Tavis Ormandy discovered critical vulnerabilities in
the antivirus product developed by U.K.-based security firm Sophos and
advised organizations to avoid using the product on critical systems unless
the vendor improves its product ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013580/researcher-finds-critical-vulnerabilities-in-sophos-antivirus-product.html>
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Vulnerability Management: Achilles Heel of Cyber Security?
eSecurity Planet
Ever since computer software established itself as the backbone of modern
commerce, communications and entertainment, it has been a target for
"hacktivists," organized cyber criminals, rogue nation states and
terrorist organizations. Their primary ...
<http://www.esecurityplanet.com/network-security/vulnerability-management-achilles-heel-of-cyber-security.html>
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Sandy reveals Web's vulnerabilities
MSN Money
Sandy reveals Web's vulnerabilities. Our digital communications rest
uneasily on a platform that wobbled and in some cases broke down altogether
in the storm that ravaged New York City and its surroundings. By TheStreet
Staff 7 hours ago. Thestreet ...
<http://money.msn.com/technology-investment/post.aspx?post=df0c81a4-78d7-40c9-afbc-bc6801a93ce7>
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Adobe Patches Critical Memory Vulnerabilities in Flash Player, AIR
Threatpost (blog)
Adobe has repaired a number of critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player
that could lead to system crashes or remote attackers controlling computers
running compromised software. None of the vulnerabilities are being
exploited, Adobe said, and added ...
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/adobe-patches-critical-memory-vulnerabilities-flash-player-air-110612>
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SCADA Security In A Post-Stuxnet World
Dark Reading
New data from Positive Technologies Security finds that 64 vulnerabilities
were discovered and reported in industrial-control system products by the
end of 2011, while only nine were reported between 2005 and 2011. And
between January and August of ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/vulnerabilities/240049917/scada-security-in-a-post-stuxnet-world.html>
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GPS vulnerabilities highlighted by spatial expert
IDM.net.au
An over-reliance on the ageing Global Positioning System has put critical
infrastructure at serious potential risk of failure if the GPS network is
ever disrupted, Canberra-based spatial expert Nunzio Gambale has warned.
"The dependency that we are ...
<http://idm.net.au/article/009345-gps-vulnerabilities-highlighted-spatial-expert>
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Android vulnerability allows phishing texts
The H
The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Xuxian Jiang's team
at North Carolina State University, which has also been responsible for
discovering numerous other Android vulnerabilities. The researcher has
posted a YouTube video ...
<http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Android-vulnerability-allows-phishing-texts-1744596.html>
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Volunteering falls short on threat information sharing
Network World
Reuters reported last week that two scheduled presentations at the 12th ICS
Cyber Security Conference about a nuclear power plant's possible
vulnerabilities to cyberattacks were cut at the last minute, after an
equipment supplier to the plant ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/110612-volunteering-falls-short-on-threat-263999.html>
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Google Patches 14 Flaws in Chrome 23
Threatpost (blog)
Six of the vulnerabilities fixed by Google are rated as high and the rest
of the bugs are either medium or low severity. Both of the Mac-specific
vulnerabilities fixed in Chrome 23 are high-severity flaws, and each one
earned a $1,000 reward for ...
<http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-patches-14-flaws-chrome-23-110612>
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