“Below the Line”: Sum up CW 9.

This weeks outline:

The editorial “Below the Line” is up to highlight news and headlines of the past week. Actually it isn’t possible to draw the whole picture but I hope you will get a nice and handy outline.

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Updates:

Monday: Privilege escalation with Linux Command sudo
Tuesday: Microsoft update MS10-015 re-released with new detection logic
Wednesday: ESX Service Console and vMA third party updates
Thursday: Microsoft security bulletin advance notification for march 2010
Thursday: Security advisory relating to multiple Symantec products
Friday: Several vulnerabilities to remain unpatched on next Microsoft patch day
Friday: Second maintenance release for PHP 5.3
Friday: Cisco patches vulnerabilities in voice solutions

Vulnerabilities and attack:

Monday: Internet Explorer 0-day exploit
Tuesday: Buffer overflow in Lotus iNotes
Wednesday: Apache 2.2.14 Server multiple vulnerabilities
Thursday: Tool automates targeted attacks on social network users
Thursday: Fault-based attack of RSA authentication
Thursday: Opera buffer overflow vulnerability
Friday: The morphing PDF
Friday: That’s news: Vulnerability avoided attack
Friday: Drupal prior to 6.16 and 5.22 multiple security vulnerabilities
Saturday: First code to exploit the new Opera vulnerability?
Saturday: Ubisoft’s ‘Uncrackable’ DRM for PC Games Cracked in 24 hours

Crime, prosecution and law:

Tuesday: Controversial german nternet law is unconstitutional
Wednesday: News from Mariposa botnet
Wednesday: New e-books on German Internet and IT law

Conferences:

Thursday: RSA-Conference: You have a right to infect yourself
Thursday: RSA-Conference: Medical identity fraudsters target health care info
Thursday: RSA-Conference: ‘There is no cyberwar’
Friday: RSA-Conference news

White-papers and reports:

Monday: Secunia 2009 report – Internet Explorer as security winner?!
Monday: Top cloud security threats research report

Other:

Tuesday: Donate for Wikipedia and win
Friday: Microsoft sends flowers to IE6 funeral

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