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WatchGuard Wire
Seems like you can ease your way back in from summer with a relatively light Patch Day this month. Microsoft's monthly Advance Notification says that they intend to release four Critical security bulletins next Tuesday.
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WatchGuard Wire
Last week, two security incidents cropped up that Linux users should be aware of. The first affects digital signatures in Red Hat and Fedora; the second involves stolen SSH keys.
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Business travelers are losing more than 12,000 laptops per week at U.S. airports. That's a major headache for the businesses which suffer lost customer data, proprietary information, drawings or renderings and employee records.
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WatchGuard Wire
A USB stick containing personal information about 84,000 criminals in England and Wales has been lost, the latest incident to a "magnificent year-long datachunder" for Her Madesty's government.
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WatchGuard Wire
Today, Microsoft released 11 security bulletins, fixing some 25 vulnerabilities in their products. That's one bulletin shy of the number they predicted last Thursday. Six of the bulletins detail flaws ranked as Critical, and five are ranked Important.
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WatchGuard Wire
August turns out to be a busy month for computer security. It started with two of the biggest computer security conferences of the year, Black Hat and Defcon; the craziness continues next week with one of the biggest Microsoft Patch Days in recent memory.
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WatchGuard Wire
The U.S. Dept. of Justice has indicted 11 people in the theft of over 40 million credit card numbers from TJX Companies and several other retailers. The Attorney General called it "the single largest...identity theft case ever charged in this country."
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WatchGuard Wire
Last Friday, security lists everywhere mentioned various security flaws in RealPlayer 10.5 (and earlier versions). We didn't comment here because RealNetworks had not yet released any patches for the problems. But late Friday afternoon, they did.
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WatchGuard Wire
A few weeks ago, security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced a serious vulnerability that affects the DNS protocol itself. He hoped to give the world time to patch before he released these details, but he should have known better.
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WatchGuard Wire
Last week, the news circulated that the beloved BlackBerry is not safe from hackers. More significantly, the entry route for this vulnerability was the equally-hallowed PDF -- typically regarded as a benign, trustworthy and unpoisonable attachment.