Network Security

Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, ColdFusion

The vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized remote code execution or remote read access

Microsoft Patch Tuesday advisories urge ditching old, weak crypto algorithms

Microsoft's scheduled security patches were accompanied by cryptography-related recommendations to stop using RC4 cipher and SHA-1

DOJ says Lavabit cannot prevent search warrants by ‘locking its front gate’

Email provider Lavabit shut down after having to give its encryption keys to the U.S. government

Airbnb calls hosts ‘micro-entrepreneurs’ in need of new laws

Airbnb's CEO said a lack of laws covering the site's hosts is a fundamental problem

Is Samsung Poised to Push Android Past iOS in the Enterprise?

Facebook forces some users to reset passwords because of Adobe data breach

Users whose Adobe online log-in credentials were exposed and used the same passwords on Facebook will need to change them

Short-distance wireless NFC and Bluetooth groups getting cozy

NFC Forum and Bluetooth SIG agree to jointly work on interoperability between the two technologies

Arbor Networks introduces cloud-based anti-DDoS service

Goal is mitigation of high-speed DDoS attacks against the enterprise network

How security is using IAM to manage BYOD

With the arrival of BYOD, security leaders are turning to IAM technologies to ensure smartphones and tablets are not lost, stolen or misused

Cisco claims scuttled by VMware

NSX supports multiple hypervisors, and no hypervisors; and endpoint policy and profile changes do not impact scale