AusCERT 2012, Quicktime Updates, and a New Zeus Variant This week’s “on the road” edition of WatchGuard Security Week in Review comes to you from the sunny Gold Coast of Australia, where I’ve spent the week learning about the latest mobile attacks, cloud threats, and SCADA security issues with the vibrant Australian security community. In this week’s video podcast, I quickly summarize a few of the presentations I saw at AusCERT this year. Of course, normal security news continued marching along despite my little jaunt to the land down under

Twitter Hacks, Gas Pipeline Cyber Attacks, and FBI Wiretaps Though the primary theme for this week was, “patch, patch, patch,” I saw many other interesting, non-update related security stories in the news as well. This week’s vlog packs all those stories into a brisk eight and a half minutes. Topics include: Highlights on Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple security updates FBI lobbying for online wiretaps Warnings of Gas Pipeline Cyber Attacks Some new Geo-aware malware A seemingly big Twitter breach Some hacker arrests For details on all these stories, and a few security tips along the way, check out the latest WatchGuard Security Week in Review video below.

Severity: High Summary: These vulnerabilities affect: All current versions of OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) and OS X 10.7.x (Lion). How an attacker exploits them: Multiple vectors of attack, including enticing your users to visit a malicious web site, or into downloading and viewing various images or media files.