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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, interviews and articles: Cyber war is coming, the impact could be huge Admiral Mike McConnell, …

Foreground Security discovered a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash. This vulnerability allows the same-origin policy of Adobe Flash to be exploited to allow nearly any …

WordPress 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, …

WhiteHat Security released a report assembled from real-world website security data, is a high-level perspective on major website security issues that continue to compromise …

Spam in email traffic The amount of spam detected in email traffic averaged 86.3% in September 2009. A low of 83.3% was recorded on 18 September with a peak value of 91.3% …

Safari 4.0.4 includes improvements to performance, stability, and security. ColorSync An integer overflow exists in the handling of images with an embedded color profile, …

Cigital and Fortify Software released the Building Security In Maturity Model for Europe or “BSIMM Europe,” an application of the industry’s first-ever set …

The earliest public mention I could find of SQL injection (“piggybacking SQL statements’ as the author put it) was from someone who called himself Rain Forest …

How do you know if your online activities are secure, or if trouble is lurking around the corner? IEEE has brought together its security expert members to evaluate the most …

CDW Government released its 2009 Federal Cybersecurity Report, which found that across Federal civilian and Department of Defense agencies, the number and severity of …

Qualys’ Richie Lai, vulnerability research director and Amol Sarwate, vulnerability labs manager, discuss this months Microsoft Patch Tuesday release.

GFI Software released a new version of GFI WebMonitor that gives organizations control of the use of the Internet by employees in the workplace, performing both Internet …