It was difficult to go anywhere this week without hearing about the flurry of activity surrounding the Wikileaks data dump. A slew of denial-of-service attacks followed, while new ransomware and attacks on open-source software filled out the rest of the week s news. On Monday, Alex Hutton wrote a primer on InfoSec, breaking down the term to examine it as a hypothetical construct. Adobe teamed up with Google to release a new version of Chrome that allows a sandboxed version of Flash to run in the browser.
Source: https://threatpost.com/week-security-wikileaks-extravaganza-new-ransomware-and-open-source-attacks-120310/74730/