“Below the Line”: Sum up CW 14.

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:

Wednesday: Adobe issues official workaround for PDF vulnerability
Wednesday: Orphan root certificate in Mozilla creates confusion
Thursday: Microsoft to repair 25 flaws in Windows, Office and Exchange
Friday: Adobe introduces automatic update for Reader
Friday: Microsoft finally to close the VBScript hole in Internet Explorer
Friday: Remote Command Execution in TYPO3 Core

Vulnerabilities and attack:

Friday: Hundreds of WordPress blogs hit by ‘networkads.net’ hack
Friday: Java exploit launches local Windows applications
Saturday: Researcher uncovers (another) major Facebook security exploit

Crime, prosecution and law:

Sunday: Casino robbery again – this time in Lyon
Tuesday: Shadowserver Foundation GhostNet 2.0 espionage network
Wednesday: Next generation crooks

White-papers and reports:

Monday: Forrester: misaligned IT security budgets
Wednesday: Forrester: Outsourced security extends to wealth of services
Thursday: ISACA: Cloud computing risks outweigh benefits
Friday: Emnid-poll: Germans mistrust privacy protection

Others:

Friday: Decryption of the Wikileaks helicopter video

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