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Brian Krebs talks with Rick Doten, chief scientist at Lockheed Martin’s Center for Cyber Security Innovation. Doten has built an impressive slide deck on ATM fraud attacks. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]

Around 80,000 Iowa employee names, birth dates and social security numbers have been exposed after an Iowa Gaming Commission server was hacked. Read the full article. [Secure Computing]

An advisory discloses a vulnerability that could affect large numbers
of organizations using Cisco’s Secure Desktop security package and
leave users of the product open to potential Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
attacks. Read the full article. [Help Net Security]

The majority of online banking customers reuse their online-banking
login credentials on other websites, according to a new survey on
password insecurity. Read the full article. [The Register]

At Black Hat DC, Foreground Security Senior Security Researcher Mike Bailey will examine Flash’s security model and take a look at some of the ways attackers can leverage Adobe Flash vulnerabilities to compromise a system. Read the full article. [eWEEK]

Underscoring a little-known web vulnerability, hackers are exploiting a
weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode and
other networks that cater to users of internet relay chat. Read the full article. [The Register]

VMware advises on vulnerabilities that relate to problems in the Java Runtime
Environment (JRE) where several of the 47 flaws can be used by
an attacker to compromise a systems. Read the full article. [The H Security]