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Red October, Cisco WLAN Updates, and Expelled Hacker Welcome to another “on the road” edition of WatchGuard Security Week in Review, the video podcast dedicated to summarizing the biggest InfoSec stories each week. This week’s episodes covers a Cisco wireless controller security update, Kaspersky’s investigation into the Red October cyber-espionage campaign, and the controversy surrounding an expelled “white hat” hacker. For more details on those stories and others, watch the short video below.

ARLINGTON, Texas (January 31, 2013) – An Arlington-based information technology (IT) consulting firm, MARJEN Technology Group, has been awarded Texas state status as an historically underutilized business (HUB) and federal status as a minority business enterprise (MBE), said founder and CEO Raj Croager.

MARJEN Technology, which Croager founded in 2009, is a privately held business consulting company with a mission to bring enterprise-class business solutions at affordable prices to small and medium-sized businesses and organizations.

This week’s security video summary comes a tad late due to my travel schedule this week. It covers updates on the two latest zero day exploits, Oracle’s critical patch update, and stories about a mobile phone botnet and US power plant breach. Click play below to watch the short episode, or check out the References for more details.

This week, Oracle released their quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2013. CPUs are collections of security updates, which fix vulnerabilities in a wide-range of Oracle products. This quarter’s updates fix 86 vulnerabilities in many different Oracle products and suites.

Java is a programming language (first implemented by Sun Microsystems) used most often to enhance web pages. Most operating systems today implement a Java interpreter to recognize and process Java code from websites and other sources. Oracle’s Sun Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is one of the most popular Java interpreters currently used.

In a previous post, we warned you of a zero day “use after free” vulnerability that affected Internet Explorer (IE) 6 through 8. By luring one of your users to a web site containing malicious code, a remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute code on your computer, with your privileges

Ready for a weekly dose of InfoSec? This episode has a strong “patch” theme, with many vendors releasing some big security updates this week. Besides the patches, I also cover a few new 0day exploits, including a serious Java one getting leveraged quite a bit in the wild, and a couple crazy sounding security-related news items. If you want all the details, click play below, or check out the Reference section.

WatchGuard is excited to announce the general release of Fireware XTM and WatchGuard System Manager v11.7. Our newest XTM OS release super-charges XTM appliances with a host of enhancements and powerful new features including performance boosts, new management tools, increased BYOD security options, and much, much more.

Today, Adobe released two security bulletins describing vulnerabilities in Flash Player, and Reader and Acrobat X.