U.S. Air Force foretells drone that can make attack decisions on its own By 2047 the Air Force says unmanned aircraft with blazing artificial intelligence systems could fly over a target and determine whether or not to unleash lethal weapons without human intervention. Adobe users face week of exploit angst For at least the next week users of Adobe's Acrobat Reader and Flash Player will be vulnerable to a zero-day exploit now rated as 'highly critical', security companies are warning. AT&T says 4chan.org block was DDoS-related AT&T says that it blocked portions of the popular 4chan.org bulletin board because it was being used as a base to launch DDoS attacks against one of its customers. Almost all Windows users vulnerable to Flash zero-day attacks More than 90% of Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, a Danish security company said today. As expected, Microsoft has released emergency patches for critical IE flaw As expected, Microsoft has rushed an emergency out-of-band security patch to fix a critical flaw in Internet Explorer. The fix comes in the form of two security updates, MS09-034 and MS09-035 to address vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) that could allow a remote, unauthenticated user to run arbitrary code on an affected system. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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