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Google believes zero-day vulnerabilities should be responded to within a
week
SC Magazine UK
Google researchers have announced a significantly shortened vendor response
deadline that they hope others will adopt to spur quicker fixes. Three
years ago a group of Google engineers proposed that vendors should have 60
days to repair security ...
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Report finds security tools add software vulnerabilities of their own
TechTarget
That's the conclusion of a recent survey of vulnerability trends in
security products, released by iViZ Security Inc. The vulnerability testing
company, based in Sudbury, Mass., found that overall vulnerabilities in
security products introduced in 2012 ...
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Secunia Accidentally Exposes Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
eSecurity Planet
According to SecurityWeek's Steve Ragan, it looks like it was an auto-fill
error -- while the e-mail from Secunia's Chaitanya Sharma was intended for
the "vuln" address at Secunia, the auto-filled address pointed instead to
vim@attrition.org, the ...
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HootSuite, Mindful of Social Media's Vulnerabilities, Offers Security
Services
CMSWire
Another day, another bunch of stories about successful hacks of companies'
websites, Twitter accounts or internal systems. To bolster defenses on the
social media front, social media management vendor HootSuite has announced
its Security Services suite ...
<http://www.cmswire.com/cms/customer-experience/hootsuite-mindful-of-social-medias-vulnerabilities-offers-security-services-021118.php>
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Oracle reveals plans for Java security improvements
PCWorld
These changes, along with other security-related efforts, are intended to
"decrease the exploitability and severity of potential Java
vulnerabilities in the desktop environment and provide additional security
protections for Java operating in the ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040411/oracle-reveals-plans-for-java-security-improvements.html>
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Financial News: HSBC Recruits Ex-MI5 Head
Wall Street Journal
The bank has appointed Sir Jonathan Evans, who led the U.K.'s domestic
security service from 2007 until this year, as a non-executive director and
a member of its Financial System Vulnerabilities Committee. The Committee
was established in January and ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130531-706018.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
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Fed Regulators on Lookout for Weaknesses That Could Cause Shocks
Wall Street Journal
The Fed's emphasis on vulnerabilities achieves two objectives, Ms. Liang
said. First by trying to assess how a variety of possible shocks could get
amplified, the Fed's financial stability analysis has shifted from
"assessing the likelihood of the ...
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Google sets seven-day deadline for zero-day disclosure
ComputerWeekly.com
Google claims to discover the active exploitation of publicly unknown or
zero-day vulnerabilities on a semi-regular basis and to work with suppliers
to fix the problem. If suppliers fail to meet the deadline, Google's own
security researchers will make ...
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Drupal confirms credential breach following third party application
vulnerability
SC Magazine UK
Hackers have hit the open source content management platform Drupal and
captured nearly one million accounts. According to a blog post by Holly
Ross, executive director of the Drupal Association, the non-profit
organisation that supports the open ...
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Google puts a seven day deadline on critical bugs
Inquirer
Google logo. SOFTARE DEVELOPER Google has said it will publish details of
zero-day vulnerabilities it finds in vendors' software products if they
fail to acknowledge the issue or offer a patch within a week. Google
security specialists Chris Evans and ...
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