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Quick rundown of all the tech talk in last night’s GOP presidential debate

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There was no tech talk in last night’s GOP presidential debate.

I told you it would be a quick rundown.

The San Francisco Chronicle uses a few more words:

The most significant reference to technology or Silicon Valley during Thursday’s televised Republican presidential debate came during a commercial for an upcoming movie about Apple founder Steve Jobs.

In the main debate between the 10 leading candidates in the polls, the word “technology” wasn’t uttered once. Other than Florida Sen. Marco Rubio making a quick mention that he alone understands the “disruptive changes” caused by tech businesses like Amazon, there was scant discussion of the innovation economy.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Drupal: If you weren’t quick to patch, assume your site was hacked

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Users of Drupal, one of the most popular content management systems, should consider their sites compromised if they didn’t immediately apply a security patch released on Oct. 15.

The unusually alarming statement was part of a “public service announcement” issued by the Drupal project’s security team Wednesday.

“Automated attacks began compromising Drupal 7 websites that were not patched or updated to Drupal 7.32 within hours of the announcement of SA-CORE-2014-005 – Drupal core – SQL injection,” the Drupal security team said. “You should proceed under the assumption that every Drupal 7 website was compromised unless updated or patched before Oct 15th, 11pm UTC, that is 7 hours after the announcement.”

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That was quick! Microsoft patches the “1776” hole in Internet Explorer

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The Internet Explorer zero-day bug that made the headlines a few days ago went by the nerdy name of CVE-2014-1776. The good news? No need to wait until next Patch Tuesday for a fix – Microsoft has issued one already.
Naked Security – Sophos

Google Android malware up sensationally by 800%, Windows 80%: Quick Heal – Financial Express

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Financial Express

Google Android malware up sensationally by 800%, Windows 80%: Quick Heal
Financial Express
The CryptoLocker botnet attacks were the highlight in 2013 and were main culprit in ransomware to extort money from users. The report found a new online fraud breed of Watering Hole attacks, which breaks the systems to make way for attacker to carry …

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