Researchers issue homemade patch for PDF zero-day bug A little-known security firm on Wednesday released a home-brewed patch for a critical bug in Adobe Reader that hackers are already exploiting.

Click here to RSVP to WHIR Events: Denver – Aug 26, 2010 Phoenix – Sept 23, 2010 Washington, DC – Oct 21 Five Most Recent Posts News: Datalink Awarded $8 Million Project by Global Consulting and Software Company News: Raritan Appoints Europe VP of Sales and Marketing News: Intuit Enhances Website Building Tool, Local Search Capabilities News: Vyatta Releases Version 6.1 of its Open Network OS News: Web Host 180Servers Doubles Server Capacity With Asheville Facility Expansion (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Open networking and network virtualization technology developer Vyatta ( www.vyatta.com ) announced on Tuesday it has released Vyatta Version 6.1, the latest release of the company’s open network operating system. The announcement comes on the heels of Vyatta 3500 series of appliances , which was released earlier this year.

Sourcefire Rolls Out Open-Source ‘Razorback’ The makers of the popular open-source Snort intrusion detection platform today unveiled a new open-source platform — a detection framework that unites existing security tools, including IDS/IPSes. The new Razorback platform developed by Sourcefire is basically a tool for tying together the various layers of detection within an organization, including antivirus, IDS/IPS, Web and email gateways, and firewalls, to use in concert to catch and examine potential threats and create mitigations on the fly. Its creators say it’s not the same thing as a security information management tool, however, because it does more than capture events: “SIM collects events in a vacuum: It takes an AV event and says this host is infected by a virus …