Fraud Advisory for Businesses Released: Corporate Account Take Over

As part of a joint effort, the United States Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC have released Fraud Advisory for Businesses: Corporate Account Take Over PDF. The...

Apple Releases Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 8 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 update 8 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 update 3 to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the Java package. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages...

Behind Facebook 'Breach': New Apps, Old Infrastructure

A report of a massive ‘privacy breach’ at Facebook reveals, instead, the rickety underpinnings of the modern Internet straining at the demands of new applications. When the Wall Street Journal broke a story on Monday about a “Privacy Breach” at Facebook, all the elements were in place for a...

RealNetworks Releases Security Update for RealPlayer Vulnerabilities

RealNetworks has issued a Security Update to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting RealPlayer. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the RealNetworks security advisory and apply any necessa...

RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry Enterprise Server

RIM has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry attachment service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and...

Privacy Advocate Asks FTC to Force Google to Change Privacy Practices

Chris Soghoian, a well-known privacy advocate and former Federal Trade Commission technologist, has filed a complaint with the FTC asking that the commission force Google to amend its privacy policy to reflect what he says are shortcomings in the company’s protection of data related to consumers’...

Oracle Releases Pre-Release Announcement for October 2010

Oracle has issued a critical patch update pre-release announcement indicating that its October release will contain 81 new vulnerability fixes. Release of the critical patch update is scheduled for Tuesday, October 12, 2010. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the pre-release...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for October Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its October release will contain sixteen bulletins. Four bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. Ten bulletins will have the severity rating of...

Foxit Releases Foxit Reader 4.2

Foxit has released Foxit Reader 4.2 to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, compromise the digital signature of PDF signatures or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Reader and Acrobat

Adobe has released updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX. These updates address multiple vulnerabilities including those described in Adobe security advisory APSA10-02 and Flash Player security bulletin APSB10-22. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an...

The Folly of Internet Wiretapping

The last 10 years have seen a great number of advancements in the sophistication and usability of strong encryption programs, and many people now use encrypted messaging services by default. This has made it much simpler for people to keep their private thoughts and data private and secure, and n...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for Out-of-Band Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that it will be releasing an out-of-band security bulletin to address a vulnerability affecting Windows. The Microsoft SharePoint Team blog indicates that this bulletin will address the recently reported vulnerability in...

Cisco Releases Security Advisories

Cisco has released six security advisories to address vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco IOS Software and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to...

OpenX Releases Security Update

OpenX has released a security update to address a vulnerability in the 2.8 downloadable version of OpenX. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the integrity of the server running OpenX. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the OpenX "Security...

Apple Releases Security Update 2010-006

Apple has released security update 2010-006 for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server to address a vulnerability in the AFP package. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to bypass password validation and obtain sensitive information. The article indicates that this vulnerability does not affect system...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2416728

Microsoft has released a security advisory to alert users of a vulnerability affecting ASP.NET. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information or tamper with data. US-CERT encourages administrators to review Microsoft security advisory 2416728 and apply a...

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.8

Apple has released QuickTime 7.6.8 to address two vulnerabilities affecting earlier versions of QuickTime for Windows. The first vulnerability is due to improper input validation in the QuickTime ActiveX control. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5.13 and 3.6.10

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.5.13 and 3.6.10 to address a stability issue affecting some users. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the release notes for Firefox 3.5.13 and Firefox 3.6.10 and apply any necessary updates to mitigate the issue. This product is...

Google Releases Chrome 6.0.472.59

Google has released Chrome 6.0.472.59 for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome Releases blog entry and apply any necessary updates...

Adobe Releases Security Advisory for Vulnerability in Reader and Acrobat

Adobe has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. The advisory indicates that this vulnerability is being actively exploited...