Computerworld Security: February 16, 2012 ===============================================================
Adobe confirms new zero-day Flash bug Adobe on Wednesday patched seven critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, including one reported by Google researchers that hackers are using in 'active targeted attacks.' http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552236/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Cisco Systems~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Converge Your Networks for Flexibility Cisco Unified Fabric offers the industry's largest and first fully interoperable portfolio of Fiber Channel integrating storage and data networking to deliver transparent convergence, massive three-dimensional scalability and sophisticated intelligence. It also reduces your costs up to 45%. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/549950/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE 1. Researchers crack online encryption system http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552237/0/ 2. IT Blogwatch: RSA crypto: 'flawed', 'risky', 'quagmire of vulnerabilities' http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552238/0/ 3. PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552239/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Citrix~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scale capacity on demand? Not with F5. The Iron Age is officially over. The Cloud Age is here. Shift to Citrix NetScaler. 5x capacity on-demand. No new hardware. Shift up to the cloud. Get investment protection and elasticity for your network with NetScaler Pay-as-You-Grow. Simple, software-based licensing. The capacity you need, when you need it. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/549338/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Researchers crack online encryption system An online encryption method widely used to protect banking, email, e-commerce and other sensitive Internet transactions is not as secure as assumed, according to a team cryptanalysts. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552237/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~WEBCAST: IBM~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improving Governance, Risk and Compliance In this webcast youll learn how your organization can become more responsive to financial market challenges while reassuring decision makers the accuracy of execution. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552240/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IT Blogwatch: RSA crypto: 'flawed', 'risky', 'quagmire of vulnerabilities' A group of six academic researchers have concluded that real-world RSA encryption keys are riskier than Diffie-Hellman-based ones. It seems that some of the random numbers used to generate them weren't, errm, random. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder if the sky is falling. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552238/0/ PHP 5.3.10 fixes critical remote code execution vulnerability The PHP Group released PHP 5.3.10 on Thursday in order to address a critical security flaw that can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on servers running an older version of the Web development platform. http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7858859/114916/552239/0/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IDC and Computerworld's 8th Annual BI & Analytics Survey What's the status of BI and analytics in your organization? IDC and Computerworld are conducting a survey to assess the adoption and deployment patterns of business intelligence and analytics solutions. 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