The head of the Department of Defense s new Cyber Command said the government needs to take the point on securing both government and critical networks from attack. Apple and Mozilla stepped up on Wednesday with some of the first remedies to the recent DLL load hijacking issue, an isolated vector that continues to plague a slew of Windows applications. Apple patched three holes in new releases of Safari 5.0.2 and Safari 4.1.2 for Windows and Macs, respectively. Mozilla pushed out Firefox 3.6.9, complete with patches for 15 vulnerabilities.
Source: https://threatpost.com/week-security-gov20-dll-patches-and-when-social-media-attacks-091010/74455/