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Critical Adobe Acrobat flaw reminds us how far programs and data may infiltrate an enterprise

Last week, Adobe confirmed the vulnerability of most of it’s Acrobat product line, including Reader, Standard and Professional on all operating systems and every nearly every released version from 3-9. The ubiquitous nature of the PDF format, deployed footprint of Acrobat and the nature of the exploit create a catastrophic set of circumstances. Looking carefully may reveal related hidden problems lurking in your infrastructure. These problems are not unique to this specific software, and the lessons learned should carry over to handling of private and mission-critical [...]

UK's secret spies nix huge covert operation after loss of USB memory stick

Last week, the British Security Service and Secret Intelligence Services, better known as MI5 and MI6, showed exactly how expensive information security procedures really can be. Details unveiled last week show MI6 scrapped a 2006 undercover drug raid operation in Columbia for fear that a lost USB stick containing covert agents and informants may have fallen into the wrong [...]

Listening to the global network: PBS' "The Spy Factory" documentary focuses on the NSA and privacy

Some used to be puzzled while discovering the measures deployed to intercept all sorts of communication between individuals on behalf of the Echelon project. In the Spy Factory, a documentary recently broadcast on PBS, James Bamford, a former National Security Agency analyst and author of the Shadow Factory, intends to clarify questionable facts with regards to the last decade’s telecommunications coverage by the [...]

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Critical Adobe Acrobat flaw reminds us how far programs and data may infiltrate an enterprise

UK's secret spies nix huge covert operation after loss of USB memory stick

Listening to the global network: PBS' "The Spy Factory" documentary focuses on the NSA and privacy