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American Express offers digital payment to AOL’s Patch

June 16, 2011 - 4:48am | News | Plastic cards

American Express announced that it will offer to AOL’s Patch a digital payment and commerce platform dubbed Serve. Customers will be able to register for Serve accounts via hundreds of Patch sites.

Patch will also offer users the ability to redeem local deals and transact with local merchants via the American Express network. Through the partnership, local merchants will be able to post offers online in a more streamlined, effective way, and consumers will benefit by redeeming offers at the point of sale.

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TippingPoint will disclose all unpatched software flaws to public in six months

August 9, 2010 - 5:32am | Fraud | News

TippingPoint announced it will give vendors six months to fix bugs before it goes public with information on software vulnerabilities. The company that sells Intrusion Prevention Systems acquired by HP this year has rewarded security researchers for information about vulnerabilities via its long-running Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) program. It uses this information to apply rules blocking exploits to its IPS technology, historically putting no particular pressure on vendors to develop patches.

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TCP and other network flaws patched by Microsoft

September 9, 2009 - 1:13pm | News | Other themes

Microsoft and Cisco have issued updates that protect against a new class of attack that requires very little bandwidth and can leave servers and routers paralyzed even after a flood of malicious data has stopped.

The bug in the TCP, or transmission control protocol, was disclosed in October by security researchers Jack Louis and Robert E. Lee of Sweden-based Outpost24.

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What is that should be patched at Microsoft PowerPoint?

May 8, 2009 - 3:01am | News | Other themes

In its advanced bulletin, containing just one update term, Microsoft revealed its plans to patch a hole in its PowerPoint presentation program. Though the company didn’t give in detail the information about the following Tuesday's release and it is uncertain what exactly Microsoft is about to fix, reports the Register.

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Exploits in Linux and Windows used by hackers to steal financial data

April 27, 2009 - 9:44am | Fraud | News

Ed Skoudis, a senior security consultant for InGuardians, and Johannes Ullrich, the CTO of the SANS Internet Storm Center, say hackers continue to penetrate many more company networks than administrators admit. They offer a list of the most effective exploits used to gain entry.

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Nine security flaws patched in Firefox 3.0.9

April 23, 2009 - 2:55am | News | Other themes

An updated version of Firefox browser was released on Tuesday by Mozilla, reports the Register. The new pack is meant to address nine security vulnerabilities one of which is the most critical.

The critical flaw addressed by Firefox 3.09 relates to a memory corruption problem. The two "high-risk" flaws involve same-origin violation security bugs. The remnant six flaws are as follows:

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