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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">1. Adobe Releases Security Updates</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">1. Adobe Releases Security Updates</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Adobe Reader and Acrobat</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Adobe released updates for Reader and Acrobat X (10.1.3) and earlier for Windows and Macintosh. The updates address vulnerabilities in the software that could cause the application to crash
and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. <a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-16.html">
Adobe recommends users to update their product to the latest versions</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Adobe Shockwave Player</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">An update was released for Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.5 and earlier versions on Mac and Windows. It addresses vulnerabilities that if successfully exploited could run malicious code on a system.
Adobe recommends users update to version 11.6.6 using the<a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-17.html"> instructions posted in the bulletin</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Adobe Flash Player</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Updates for Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.270 and earlier have been released for Windows, Macs and Linux. The updates address a vulnerability that could cause the application to crash and potentially
allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe recommends users to update the product to the latest versions,
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-18.html">according the instructions in the bulletin</a>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">2. iPhone Has Passed Key Security Threshold</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">According to an article published by MIT in Technology Review, the iOS system by Apple makes the device more secure. In particular, the iOS increased the use of encryption, which is beginning
to cause problems for law enforcement agencies when they encounter systems with encrypted drives that make it impossible to recover any data. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Apple's security architecture on the iPhone is apparently so sturdy, and so tightly woven into its hardware and software, that is is both easy for consumers to use encryption on their phones
and very difficult for someone else to steal the encrypted information.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">The key to decode the encryption is protected by the user's PIN lock. If brute force is used to try to guess the PIN, the device will wipe itself after ten wrong tries. Even if special software
is used, this limits the guessing speed to 80 milliseconds per PIN attempted. And trying all versions of a 4-digit PIN takes about 13 minutes to crack, a 6-digit PIN takes 22 hours, a 9-digit PIN takes 2.5 years, and a 10-digit PIN about 25 years.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428477/the-iphone-has-passed-a-key-security-threshold/">Read the full article here</a>.</p>
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