Smartphones cache poses huge risk for Cloud Storage Security

A couple of years ago, the tech world was abuzz about the cloud. Cloud computing refers to computing where the processing or storage takes place on a networked series of computers rather than on the device that you're using. Whether you're using a PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone, television, or...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.1.2 update

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.1.2, which fixes several security issues, is now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eac...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openstack-nova-2012.1.3-3.fc17

OpenStack Compute codename Nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances...

Fedora Update for jakarta-commons-httpclient FEDORA-2013-1203

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Fedora Update for jakarta-commons-httpclient FEDORA-2013-1189

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.fc17

The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol HTTP is perhaps the most significant protocol used on the Internet today. Web services, network-enabled appliances and the growth of network computing continue to expand the role of the HTTP protocol beyond user-driven web browsers, and increase the number of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.fc18

The Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol HTTP is perhaps the most significant protocol used on the Internet today. Web services, network-enabled appliances and the growth of network computing continue to expand the role of the HTTP protocol beyond user-driven web browsers, and increase the number of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: openstack-nova-2012.2.2-1.fc18

OpenStack Compute codename Nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances...

[Watcher v1.5.6] Web Security Testing Tool and Passive Vulnerability Scanner

Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Being passive means it won't damage production systems, it's completely safe to use in Cloud computing, shared hosting, and dedicated hosting environments. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openshift-origin-node-util security update

An updated openshift-origin-node-util package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detaile...

Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing

Researchers from two U.S. universities have created a way to anonymously use cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks – a feat that also demonstrates how hackers might secretly harness massive computing power to launch attacks. Using the MapReduce technique developed by...

400 million new variants of malware created in a year

Symantec provide overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity via its Internet Security Threat Report ISTR, with a exclusive details that 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of malware a month, or an average of on...

Attorneys Warn of Increased Risk of Big Data Breach Lawsuits

Two attorneys for a prominent law firm warn that courts are starting to look more favorably on class-action lawsuits brought by data breach victims, who historically have had trouble proving actual damages from the thefts. “A recent survey of data breach litigation found that the average settleme...

Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device

Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.2 update

Updated Messaging component packages that fix two security issues, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common...

Fedora Update for trousers FEDORA-2012-12973

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Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-9550

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Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-11756

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Cisco Unified Computing System Fabric Interconnect SNMP Message Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco Unified Computing System contains a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to errors in processing malicious Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP messages by the affected software. An...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openstack-nova-2012.1.1-15.fc17

OpenStack Compute codename Nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances...