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• 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. »

• Critical Firefox bug fixed one month after disclosure

  Just days before the start of a hacking contest set to target Web browser vulnerabilities, Mozilla has patched its flagship Firefox browser. »

• Nvidia warns of graphics drivers with overheating risk

  Nvidia on Wednesday asked customers to remove drivers that caused its GeForce graphics cards to overheat, which ultimately crashed some PCs. »

• Microsoft hustles on IE patch, tests fix

  Microsoft yesterday said it is testing a patch for a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE), but stopped short of promising to deliver an emergency fix before the next scheduled Patch Tuesday. »

• 75% of firms have experienced a cyber attack

  Three quarters of firms have been the victim of a cyber attack in the last year, says Symantec. »