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Android security updates: Who's responsible for patches?
Newsday In late October, researchers at North Carolina State University alerted Google to a security flaw that could let scam artists send phony text messages to Android phones – a practice called "smishing" that can ensnare consumers in fraud. Google's … |
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Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat
Techworld.com Hacker uses cat to deliver virus clues to Japanese police · FBI hackers fail to crack TrueCrypt · The best 5 secure browsers · Five free Android security apps tried and tested · Who's got the power in the IT security world? Kaspersky Internet Security … |
There was a somewhat strange security update rolled out on Patch Tuesday, being that it does not address a security flaw, but rather a clerical timestamp error on binaries; this code-signing error will cause the digital signature on files produced and signed by Microsoft to expire and become invalid prematurely. Because “of the two k Read more
Microsoft announced today that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical. Read more