Information Protection and Security

The new Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR) found worm infections nearly doubled, vulnerability counts down by nearly one-third in the first half of 2009.

NASA networks contain security weaknesses that open up highly sensitive personal and scientific data to hackers, possibly affecting space missions, federal auditors said.
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Protocols are in place, but patch management is spotty.
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The patch fixes flaws that would enable malformed SMS messages or mobile applications to crash Android 1.5 handsets.
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It’s reasonable to believe that cyber threats will increase in the future. Organized cybercrime groups have become skilled at coordinating  networks of infected computers (botnets), and configuring them to gather large stores of stolen data. Meanwhile, scammers have become efficient in turning stolen data into cash. As members of a botnet t

It's true that Adobe is getting better at the security game, but they've far from proven themselves. It's also possible that service providers can play some role in forcing users to apply updates, although there's no real sign of that yet.
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On Sept. 29, the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database celebrates its 10th anniversary of giving researchers, software vendors and developers a tool for identifying and sharing information about security vulnerabilities in software.

A report issued by The SANS Institute finds enterprise security efforts focused on fixing low-priority flaws at the expense of serious application vulnerabilities.
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Mozilla has expanded on the plans they acknowledged yesterday to check the version of Flash you are running to make sure that it's not outdated.
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