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January 17, 2012: As announced, Oracle has released their January 2012 Critical Patch Update Advisory. Affected components include Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, E-Business, Supply Chain, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Sun, Virtualization, and MySQL Products. All 78 bulletins are rated as ‘Critical’ with some carrying a potential impact of remote code execution.
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- Android Market Gets a Bouncer to Kick Out Malware
Jimmy Shah - February 03, 2012
Today Google announced its Bouncer security service for the Android Market. This is a good initial step in protecting Android users. Respect the Bouncer To keep out known troublesome apps, the service performs a malware and spyware scan on all submitted material. It also uses behavioral analysis to determine if a given app is trying Read more... - SchmooCon to Cover Hot Mobile Security Topics
Jimmy Shah - January 26, 2012
The ShmooCon security conference takes place in Washington D.C. this weekend. There will be a good number of mobile and embedded talks, covering attacks on and defense of Bluetooth, Android, NFC, RFID, and more. Disposable computers A number of years ago at DefCon a team of penetration testers showed how to infiltrate a corporate network Read more... - Vulnerabilities Patched in McAfee SaaS for Total Protection
David Marcus - January 18, 2012
This week, there has been public interest regarding some issues disclosed in McAfee products. McAfee treats security issues in our products very seriously, and so our Product Security team will explain the details around these issues. They do not affect all McAfee products, both are in a single product: SaaS for Total Protection, our hosted Read more...
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