Mitigation has become the word of the moment at Microsoft, and the company on Thursday continued its recent flow of tools designed to lessen the effectiveness of certain attacks with the release of version 2.0 of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.

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Mitigation has become the word of the moment at Microsoft, and the company on Thursday continued its recent flow of tools designed to lessen the effectiveness of certain attacks with the release of version 2.0 of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit.

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Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year. Read the full article. [Computerworld]

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Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year. Read the full article. [Computerworld]

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Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome.

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Google has released a new version of its Chrome browser and has included more than a dozen security fixes in the update. The new version, 6.0.472.53, was released two years to the day after the company pushed out the first version of Chrome.

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Social networking features, a rockin' new logo and GUI improvements aren't the only reason you should upgrade to iTunes 10, says Apple. The update to Apple's popular music player software, released on Wednesday, also fixes a bunch of gaping vulnerabilities that could make earlier versions susceptible to Web based attacks.

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Social networking features, a rockin' new logo and GUI improvements aren't the only reason you should upgrade to iTunes 10, says Apple. The update to Apple's popular music player software, released on Wednesday, also fixes a bunch of gaping vulnerabilities that could make earlier versions susceptible to Web based attacks.

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In this video, Niklas Wolff of the CSIS Security Group demonstrates an exploit for the recent integer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader (CVE-2010-2862), disclosed at Black Hat in July, that allows remote code execution.

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In this video, Niklas Wolff of the CSIS Security Group demonstrates an exploit for the recent integer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader (CVE-2010-2862), disclosed at Black Hat in July, that allows remote code execution.

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