Adobe announced on Thursday that it will release security updates next week to patch vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader products.
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Study Analyzes Passwords Used in Opportunistic, Criminal Attacks
Security firm Rapid7 has conducted a year-long study to find out which are the usernames and passwords most commonly used by malicious actors in criminal and opportunistic attacks.
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Tech Rivals Join Apple’s Legal Fight Against FBI
A broad array of technology firms and activists joined Apple's legal fight over encryption Thursday, warning of a dangerous precedent if the company is forced to help the government break into a locked iPhone.
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Barracuda Expands NGFW Product Line
SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 – Barracuda Networks announced on Wednesday the launch of a new NextGen Firewall product designed to allow organizations to securely connect a large number of endpoints.
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Pentagon Chief Wary of Tech ‘Back Doors’
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has said he opposes high-tech "back doors" that would allow the government access to encrypted data on people's phones and other devices.
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Chrome 49 Released with 26 Security Fixes
Google on Wednesday released Chrome 49 in the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux, providing users with 26 security fixes and various other improvements.
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Incident Response Should Never End
Increasing resiliency to attacks is the focus for security professionals today. Despite the fact that defenders are developing technologies and tactics that are growing in sophistication, adversaries are as well…at a more rapid pace.
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Hardcoded Password Exposes RSA Conference Badge Scanning App
SAN FRANCISCO – RSA CONFERENCE 2016 – Researchers at Bluebox Security discovered that the badge scanning application provided by RSA Conference organizers to vendors is plagued by a security bypass flaw.
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Cisco Patches Critical, High Severity Flaws in NX-OS
Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has released software updates for several of its products to address critical and high severity vulnerabilities.
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Apple Reissues Security Update After Blocking Ethernet on Mac OS X
Apple over the weekend reissued a security update for OS X El Capitan systems after the initial update blocked Apple’s own Ethernet drivers.
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