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After a relatively quiet Patch Tuesday in September, Microsoft is releasing fixes for 23 separate vulnerabilities in its security update next week.The patches will be spread across eight bulletins – two rated ‘Critical’, six designated ‘Important’ – and will touch Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG), Microsoft Host Integration Server, the .NET Framework and Silverlight.

Developers Leave Debug Tool Open for The World to Use, Including AttackersDevelopers from American Express have made somewhat of a big mistake recently, leaving an administration panel for Web site debugging wide open for anyone to access, providing a potential tool and avenue for attackers to target AMEX customers. (Update: Amex appears to finally have closed access to the admin panel within the past hour, as of 11:15AM EST on Oct 6.)

Before there was concern over VM stall, there was that of VM sprawl.VM sprawl had organizations worrying that so many virtual machines would be spun up (thanks to the ease of deploying them) that not only would management become an issue, but so, too, would performance, security, and IT staffing.

Oracle Public Cloud Brings Customers & Partners Subscription-Based Access to Oracle's Enterprise Applications, Middleware and Database

Often the Real Vulnerability, When it Comes to DNS Security and Stability, is Ignorance. Here are Five DNS Threats You Should Protect Against.

On Wednesday, Check Point released a new blade to its Software Blade Architecture, in order to help organizations prevent and respond to bot-based threats. In addition, the company announced seven other security appliances, promising scalable firewall throughput of up to 100 Gbps.

Update: NetQin Mobile reached out to SecurityWeek to let us know that they had previously identified the same malware under the name AnserverBot on September 19th. Dr. XuXian Jiang, Chief Scientist at NetQin’s US Security Research Center, offers a detailed report on how the malware works. - Editor

According to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office, despite efforts to implement stronger cybersecurity controls, several federal agencies remain in a weakened state. Since 2006, security incident reports have risen over 650-percent.

New Release Helps Protect Sensitive Data, Brings Centralized Management of Enterprise Wide Database Security MeasuresOn Monday at Oracle Open World, Oracle’s giant customer conference taking place this week in San Francisco, Oracle unveiled new and improved database security features in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.

HTC officials have promised to fix a privacy hole affecting its Android devices that could expose sensitive user information to attackers.

McAfee today announced that it has agreed to acquire NitroSecurity, a privately held provider of high-performance security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.The company’s founders and roots come from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory, giving it extensive experience with critical infrastructures in the energy sector, creating a sweet spot for the Portsmouth, NH-based company in a sector that has come into the spotlight following Stuxnet and a general rise in concern over critical infrastructure security.

IBM announced that it would acquire privately held Q1 Labs, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based provider of security intelligence software.

SIEM vendors are all jumping on the Security Intelligence tag line, but what does it really mean? The bad guys are getting more sophisticated and the quality and breadth of intelligence is crucial to early identification and thwarting attacks. Can SIEM bring the analog of human intelligence (aka, espionage) to cyber threats and the security visibility of business intelligence to the executive boardroom?Defining the threat landscape:

VASCO Data Security, parent of recently “hacked out of business” Certificate Authority (CA), DigiNotar, has shared additional information on the expected losses surrounding the recent cyber attack that forced the company into bankruptcy.

Data Center Security Survey Highlights Discrepancy Between Data Center Security Perceptions and RealityToday McAfee released the results of a sweeping survey into data center security – and the picture is not all that pretty.