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• Oracle database admins acknowledge security gaps

  Database security is rife with pitfalls, according to 430 Oracle database administrators surveyed by the Independent Oracle Users Group. »

• Bugs & Fixes: Recovering lost contacts

  I sync my calendar and contacts data across my Mac and all my iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch) using the MobileMe option. On most days, this works spectacularly well. It means that, whenever I make a data change on any one of the devices, the change is propagated nearly instantly to every other synced device. »

• Opinion: IT needs to help secure industrial control systems

  After the Stuxnet worm exploited a zero-day vulnerability in a popular industrial controller, it's clear that operators of large-scale infrastructure management systems need to work with the IT security community to better safeguard these critical systems. »

• Security Manager's Journal: Incident shows IP still at risk

  It can take a bit of luck sometimes to find out about a security problem. A recent incident illustrates this and the need to do more to eliminate luck from the matter. »

• Microsoft confirms 'nasty' Windows zero-day bug

  Microsoft on Friday warned that attackers are exploiting a critical unpatched Windows vulnerability using infected USB flash drives. »

• Mozilla patches 9 Firefox bugs, adds plug-in crash protection

  Mozilla on Tuesday patched nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5. »

• 'Brute force' script snatched iPad e-mail addresses

  The harvesting of over 100,000 iPad 3G owners' e-mail addresses was not a hack or a classic data breach, but a brute force attack of a minor feature AT&T offered to Apple customers, experts said Wednesday. »

• Firewall audit dos and don'ts

  Firewall audit products are maturing, but the product class is still a relatively young, small market, defined by compliance requirements. You have a fairly limited choice of vendors, including Tufin Software Technologies, AlgoSec, Secure Passage and Athena Security, which all come with firewall audit pedigrees, and RedSeal Systems and Skybox Security, which are primarily vendors of risk-mitigation tools, and so go beyond firewall audit to feature sophisticated risk-assessment and risk-management capabilities. »

• Security firm reveals Microsoft's 'silent' patches

  Microsoft silently patched three vulnerabilities last month, two of them affecting enterprise mission-critical Exchange mail servers, without calling out the bugs in the accompanying advisories, a security expert said today. »

• 1-in-10 Windows PCs still vulnerable to Conficker worm

  More than a year after doomsday reports hinted that the Conficker worm would bring down the Internet, one-in-10 Windows PCs still have not been patched to plug the hole the worm wriggles through, new data shows. »