Autumn conferences grabbed the headlines this week as presentations at the Toorcon Conference in San Diego and SecTor in Toronto wrapped up October. Social networking looked especially vulnerable as Firesheep, an extension for Firefox, showed it could easily hijack users. Mozilla confirmed a bug in their Firefox browser and claimed they were working to patch it. The subject of a series of class action lawsuits filed in California in recent days is the subject of several class action suits against Facebook, Zynga and Google. Stuxnet, which wormed its way through SCADA security in July, was also the focus of a talk at SecTor.
Source: https://threatpost.com/week-security-toorcon-and-sector-wrap-bugs-and-stuxnet-stances-102910/74621/