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Visa looks into Eastern European security breach

17

Dec

2011

Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europeans. Although Visa hasn’t disclosed which countries were hit, the Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 cards on suspicion that they had been compromised. CEC Bank said in a statement that “a number” of cards issued by […]

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Safeguards for ethical hackers spurned by Australian government

26

Nov

2011

The Australian government has thumbed its nose at legal safeguards for ethical hackers, according to a report from SC Magazine. University of New South Wales security researcher Alana Maurushat on Thursday told the magazine’s “Security on the Move” conference that she and other industry professionals had gone out of their way to submit proposals for […]

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Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch

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Sep

2011

Adobe released an out-of-band security update to address six critical vulnerabilities, all affecting Adobe Flash Player.One of the six, a cross-site scripting vulnerability identified as CVE-2011-2444, is reportedly being exploited in the wild. The bug is reportedly being used in targeted attacks that involve malicious links sent out to targets through email messages.Adobe attributed the […]

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