Oracle releases emergency Java patch; experts warn flaws may take 2 years to fix

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	Oracle releases emergency Java patch; experts warn flaws may take 2 years to fix After the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT warned users to disable Java to stop hackers from taking control of users' machines, Oracle issued an emergency patch on Sunday. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IT Roadmap Chicago IT Roadmap Chicago Focuses on Five Pillars of Technology The content-rich agenda has been redesigned and reenergized to include increased IDG content from editors you know and trust on topics such as: Security & Management, Network - From the Edge to the Core of the New Data Center, Analytics & Data Management, Cloud & Next Generation Apps, The Mobile/BYOD Enterprise, and more! Click to continue In this Issue Microsoft takes urgent step today to patch stubborn Internet Explorer flaw INSIDER IT pros reveal the best career advice they ever received Kingpin: A great read for those interested in cybersecurity Security Manager's Journal: When technologies collide DARPA wants to dot ocean floor with network of robotic pods that can spy, explore Oracle patches latest zero-day vulnerabilities in Java WHITE PAPER: Avaya Delivering game-changing productivity & dependability By creating one contiguous, end-to-end Fabric, Avaya is empowering businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of infrastructure productivity, service agility, and network dependability, the very essence of the fast, flexible, and secure design aspirations. Read Now Microsoft takes urgent step today to patch stubborn Internet Explorer flaw Look today for a Microsoft patch that repairs a vulnerability in old versions of Internet Explorer that have been exploited in the wild and that persisted despite a Fix It tool issued last month. Read More INSIDER IT pros reveal the best career advice they ever received In today's culture, advice on nearly any topic - relationships, health, career - is just a mouse click, touchscreen tap or Siri query away. There's even a Web site called shouldidoit.com that promises to help you make decisions in your daily life. But while you can get some good insights on the many expert and general discussion forums that pop up on the Web, there's often a sense that something is missing from that experience. Call it the human touch. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now! Kingpin: A great read for those interested in cybersecurity When friends and colleagues ask me how they can learn about cybersecurity, I provide the following advice. Rather than read textbooks or something like Network Security for Dummies, I recommend that they read a few of the more popular and recent titles from Amazon. I'm talking about books like Richard Clarke's Cyberwar, Joseph Menn's Fatal System Error, or Mark Bowden's Worm. All of these... Read More Security Manager's Journal: When technologies collide An encryption initiative runs into the law of unintended consequences, since the legal department can't search encrypted emails for e-discovery purposes. Read More WHITE PAPER: Trusteer Dealing with Advanced and Targeted Attacks This whitepaper explains how advanced malware challenges traditional defenses to take advantage of the increased exposure of employee endpoints. It reviews the evolution of advanced targeted attacks and the various approaches used to address them. Learn More. DARPA wants to dot ocean floor with network of robotic pods that can spy, explore This plan sounds a bit like a science fiction scenario where alien devices were planted in the ground thousands of years ago only to be awoken at some predetermined date to destroy the world. Only in this case it's the scientists at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency who want to develop a system of submersible pods that could reside in the world's oceans (presumably not in anyone's territorial... Read More Oracle patches latest zero-day vulnerabilities in Java Oracle released two out-of-band patches on Sunday for vulnerabilities in its Java programming language, both of which pose a high risk to users browsing the web. Read More
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