General Security
April's Patch Tuesday from Microsoft includes another Internet Explorer patch

An posting from SC Magzine on Microsft patch: Microsoft is readying nine patches to be released Tuesday as part of the software giant's monthly security update. Two of the nine fixes address vulnerabilities rated "critical," meaning they could be exploited to execute remote code, while the remaining seven patches attend to flaws deemed "important," according […]

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Vulnerability
Adobe confirms PDF zero-day, plans rush patch

Adobe today said it would issue an emergency patch the week of Aug. 16 to fix a critical flaw in its Reader and Acrobat software.

The bug was disclosed by researcher Charlie Miller at last month's Black Hat security conference when he demonstrated how the open-source BitBlaze toolkit could be used to boost bug-hunting productivity tenfold.

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