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Microsoft release an Emergency “Critical” patch for Internet Explorer V6, 7 & 8   Patches released this patch out-of-band on 14th January 2013  Patch remediates a public disclosed remote code execution vulnerability in IE  Microsoft release 2 ‘Critical’ and 5 ‘Important’ Security Patches Patches released as part of the ‘Patch Tuesday’ cycle on 8th January 2013  Patches address vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Developer Tools, .NET Framework and server  Abode release patches for fix 27 vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, Acrobat & Flash Patches released as part of ‘Patch Tuesday’ cycle on 8th January 2013  Hackers Used Data Centres to Supercharge Attacks Researchers at Radware who investigated the attacks for several banks found that the traffic was coming from data centres around the world. They discovered that various cloud services and public Web hosting services had been infected with a particularly sophisticated form of malwar...

ICO fines Sony £250,000 after millions of UK gamers  personal details are compromised Sony PlayStation Network Platform made international headlines when it was hacked in April 2011, compromising the personal information of millions of UK customers, including their names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth and account passwords. Customers’ payment card details were also at risk.  An ICO investigation found that the attack could have been prevented if the software had been up-to-date, while technical developments also meant passwords were not secure  ICO commented  “If you are responsible for so many payment card details and log-in details then keeping that personal data secure has to be your priority”  “There’s no disguising that this is a business that should have known better”  “The penalty issued clearly substantial, but we make no apologies for that. It directly affected a huge number of consumers, and at the very least put them ...