Adobe and Microsoft today independently issued software updates to plug critical security holes in their software. Adobe released a patch that fixes a whopping 78 security vulnerabilities in its Flash Player software. Microsoft pushed a dozen patch bundles to address at least 71 flaws in various versions of the Windows operating system and associated software. […]

The things that people attach to the Internet are “absolutely astounding”: think ATM machines, bank safes, and control systems for power plants. Source: Sophos

Yahoo Mail has fixed a bug in its software that left hundreds of millions of users vulnerable to specially crafted emails that could have been used to steal data or spread malware on a huge scale. Source: Sophos

I recently heard from a source in law enforcement who had a peculiar problem. The source investigates cybercrime, and he was reaching out for advice after trying but failing to conduct undercover buys of stolen credit cards from a well-known underground card market. Turns out, the cybercrime bazaar’s own security system triggered a “pig alert” and brazenly […]

Zuckerberg isn’t quitting Facebook quite yet, but a quirky bug in the website could have made it appear that he had quit, if you knew how to manipulate a career Life Events post, as a security researcher did using Zuckerberg’s timeline. Source: Sophos

Users of Honeywell’s Midas and Midas Black gas detectors are being urged to perform a firmware update to fix a pair of critical, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that would allow ‘an attacker with low skill’ to compromise critical industrial safety equipment. Source: Sophos