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Ouch. Stay safe out there kids… “A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. This vulnerability (CVE-2011-2462) could cause a crash and potentially allow [...]
“Companies like Digital Reasoning, which combine big data know-how with analytics expertise, are hot ticket items right now as government and commercial entities seek to make sense of massive amounts of historical and newly collected data for security and other applications.”
Kim Zetter has an excellent objective follow-up to the water pump SCADA Red scare. Of course, the unanswered question is why, if this system is critical infrastructure is it connected to public networks for management? Why isn’t the remote access restricted to particular IP addresses? Why is remote access allowed via a damn cell phone? [...]
“The FBI is warning that computer crooks have begun launching debilitating cyber attacks against banks and their customers as part of a smoke screen to detract attention away from simultaneous high-dollar cyber heists. The bureau says the attacks coincide with corporate account takeovers perpetrated by thieves who are using a modified version of the ZeuS [...]
Insightful commentary on an important issue. Really highlights the importance of analysis and investigation of these incidents before jumping to conclusions. “Earlier this month, a pump burned out mysteriously at a water plant in Springfield, Illinois. Log data traced the problem back several months to a command from an IP address in Russia that forced [...]
I’ve been noting for years that IT Security was going to be a big data problem. It is clear that some of the most innovative solutions are taking a big data approach as discussed in this series of articles on GigaOm. “As is the case with many security services, Immunet isn’t a Hadoop product as [...]
“American Airlines’ parent company is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to unload massive debt built up by years of accelerating jet fuel prices and labor struggles.” Source: American Airlines files for Ch. 11 protection – Yahoo! News
And curated app stores like Apple’s and Amazon’s are bad because…. “With Angry Birds, Rovio found a way to transform normal, healthy people into raging bird-flinging addicts. This isn’t really that big of a deal — at least not in most cases — unless some shady app developers begin impersonating Rovio and selling fake apps [...]
“Nokia Siemens Networks would like you to know that it “puts mobile broadband and services at the heart of its strategy”, and to demonstrate this they plan to fire roughly 17,000 people worldwide before the end of 2013 as part of ‘an extensive global restructuring program’” Source: Nokia Siemens Networks To Cut 17,000 Jobs, Writes [...]
