“Below the Line”: Sum up CW 13.

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:

Tuesday: Microsoft to release out of cycle patch for IE
Tuesday: Apple patched 88 Mac OS X Vulnerabilities
Wednesday: Java 6 Update 19 closes 26 security holes
Wednesday: Updates for Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and Firefox
Wednesday: QuickTime update patches 16 vulnerabilities
Wednesday: Firefox developers block old CSS leak
Friday: Firefox 3.6.3 closes a critical hole
Friday: Foxit fixes PDF executable problem

Vulnerabilities and attack:

Monday: Escape from PDF
Monday: EXEs in Word docs
Tuesday: Vulnerability in popular iPhone app Quip
Wednesday: Escape from Foxit Reader
Wednesday: Microsoft runs fuzzing botnet, finds 1,800 Office bugs
Wednesday: Facebook revealed all private email addresses

Crime, prosecution and law:

Monday: Old school was first choice
Tuesday: Next generation works even better
Thursday: Hackers involved in German election in NRW

Conferences:

Monday: ShmooCon 2010 videos
Tuesday: CanSecWest 2010: Lessons learned

White-papers and reports:

Wednesday: Does PDF stand for Problematic Document Format?
Wednesday: Study calls for more C-level involvement in cybersecurity

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