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Researcher slams Adobe for 'epidemic' of JavaScript bugs

2008-06-24 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Adobe Systems has patched its free Reader and commercial Acrobat software to fix the latest in what one researcher called an "epidemic" of JavaScript vulnerabilities in the popular apps
 
Tags: commercial acrobat software, popular apps, free reader, javascript vulnerabilities, researcher, epidemic, adobe systems, fix
 
 
 
 
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Terrorism Fear Could Create Psychosomatic Epidemic, Feds Warned

2008-09-15 20:01:00 by Ryan Singel in Wired Security
 
Fear of terrorism could lead to a "fake" epidemic in the wake of a real or perceived attack that could overwhelm the nation's hospitals, government analysts warned hospitals in 2006. The newly leaked document says fear led to outbreaks of "psychogenic illnesses" in Chechya, Japan and even once in California
 
Tags: fear, fear led, psychogenic illnesses, government analysts, terrorism, hospitals, epidemic, nation, lead
 
 
 
 
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Upcoming conference presentations

2008-03-21 20:56:00 by Russ McRee in HolisticInfoSec.org
 
...Epidemic: Discovery, Disclosure, and Remediation at the 2008 ISSA NW Regional Security Conference on April 23rd, 2008, in Olympia, WA In the same mindset of a "month of browser, Mac OS X, PHP, etc. bugs" I challenged myself to find and report as many XSS (cross site scripting) vulnerabilities as possible in a 30 day period. The result was...
 
Tags: conference, xss epidemic, xss, regional security conference, george mason university, epidemic, malcode analysis techniques, 20th annual, incident handlers
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 21:52:53 by HASH0x89e6354 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Epidemic PCWorld.CA: The eight most dangerous consumer technologies (Skype and consumer VoIP are #6 on page 2 TMC Net: VoIP Peering in Search of a Viable Interconnect Business Model (note the comments about security toward the bottom Cisco TechWise podcasts Session Initiation Protocol and Security (its on the page came out 10/18/07...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #70: 2-yr Anniversary show, VoIP security vulnerabilities, Vonage, Comcast, phishing, listener comments and much, much more...

2007-11-07 22:52:27 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...Epidemic PCWorld.CA: The eight most dangerous consumer technologies (Skype and consumer VoIP are #6 on page 2 TMC Net: VoIP Peering in Search of a Viable Interconnect Business Model (note the comments about security toward the bottom Cisco TechWise podcasts Session Initiation Protocol and Security (it???s on the page??? came out 10/18/07...
 
Tags: voip security, voip security vulnerabilities, voip security news, voip, voip security podcast, consumer voip, vulnerabilities, sans voip security, sans
 
 
 
 
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Weak security is epidemic for Feds

2008-02-13 08:18:24 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
While the number of stories about incidents due to weak information security in U.S. government agencies continued to grow, there was little indication that our military was not taking care of traditional security issues--like keeping track of nuclear weapons. Well, it seems that the inability to effectively secure critical assets has spread to...
 
Tags: weak information security, traditional security issues, national defense, nuclear weapons, incidents due, government agencies, track, military, care
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Security Plans [Part 2]

2007-09-14 07:28:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
...epidemic of Slammer proportions means that we are learning our lesson. The fact that the Storm worm is still being successful means that there is still some way to go Our first paradigm shift was from realising that security has to be done all the time technology alone will not save us I think the next one is that we can't tack on security....
 
Tags: security, storm worm, worm, sql slammer worm, information security, paradigm, paradigm shift, application security, code red worm
 
 
 
 
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Data Loss Epidemic

2008-05-13 08:30:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
Most UK companies are losing data every month a survey has found. The majority of UK businesses, 79 per cent, are losing data at least once per month, according to the survey of 250 senior IT staff at businesses larger than 1,000 staff.. Read the rest of the article here . The results of such surveys are great marketing for companies such as CA...
 
Tags: data, protect data, solve data security, lost usb stick, threat management tools, businesses larger, businesses, wild statistics, scare stories
 
 
 
 
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Why Do Street-Smart People Do Stupid Things Online?

2008-05-22 14:32:02 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
The current epidemic of poor trust decisions by users online is largely due to flaws in GUIs that train the users away from using real-world security intuitions. The authors propose a principle for GUI designers that will help them avoid such design mistakes
 
Tags: users online, real-world security intuitions, users, poor trust decisions, gui designers, current epidemic, authors propose, design mistakes, due