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Security workshop success prompts plans for sequels
Bdaily Following the success of its inaugural Cyber Security Workshop, Boston Spa-based Deans Computer Services (DCS) is planning to host several more in 2017. Providing a wide-ranging consultation session for SMEs seeking IT security advice, the first … |
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Flash zero-day prompts emergency update from Adobe
Naked Security Just two days after this month's Adobe Patch Tuesday, the company published an emergency fix for Flash. Dubbed APSB16-08, the update didn't make it out on Tuesday, but it fixes 23 CVE-labelled vulnerabilities, so make sure you don't miss it if your … Adobe Updates Flash to Patch Zero-Day Flaw Adobe issues emergency patch for actively exploited code-execution bug Adobe plugs 23 code execution holes in Flash |
Adobe just updated Flash, two days after Patch Tueday, after reports of crooks exploiting a new vulnerability.
Naked Security – Sophos
Yesterday’s grounding of the United Airlines fleet, which the company has blamed on a routing mishap of some kind, has prompted readers of Reddit’s section devoted to networking to share their worst workplace screw-ups and the consequences of same.
There are almost 200 tales and comments, but there is one that stands out from the rest:
We were removing old trading workstations in the Chicago pits during a Globex/Dealing upgrade. We were told to just use snips to cut the towers free. I cut the wrong damn line. An entire wall of stations and displays went down including the big index board. Commodities quotes from NY went dead. Trading was halted at CME/CBOE for 3 f***ing hours. I single handedly caused the most expensive technical market glitch in Chicago exchange history up to that point. I halted an estimated $ 3b in trades.
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