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MS discovers flaw in Google plug-in for IE
Nov 20th, 2009 - The Register
Microsoft has helped discover a flaw in the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users. The plug-in allows suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer using the Google Chrome rendering engine...
As Smart Grid Expands, So Does Vulnerability to Cyber Attacks
Nov 19th, 2009 - New York Times
As he prepares to leave office as head of the nation's electric grid operations monitor, Rick Sergel is warning the power industry that if it doesn't move faster and harder to protect itself against cyber threats...
Microsoft Warns On Windows 7 Zero Day
Nov 16th, 2009 - ChannnelWeb
Microsoft has released an advisory for a zero day bug that cropped up in Windows 7 the day after last week's November Patch Tuesday release. The vulnerability lies in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol...
Microsoft Provides Guidance on Windows 7 Zero-Day Vulnerability
Nov 16th, 2009 - Washington Post
Microsoft has acknowledged the Windows 7 zero-day vulnerability reported last week with a Security Advisory. The advisory from Microsoft provides some additional details about the scope and nature of the threat...
Data-stealing Hack Targets Jailbroken iPhone
Nov 11th, 2009 - PC World
Once more into the breach, my iPhone-wielding compatriots. On Monday, we heard about the iPhone vulnerability that allowed dastardly hackers to place nefarious Rick Astley wallpaper on some jailbroken devices...

Vulnerability videos from YouTube:

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Adobe PDF Vulnerability POC
demonstrates the PDF vulnerability
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Sarah on DNS
I'm Dan Kaminsky, and this is my niece Sarah. Sarah has an important message for everybody regarding the Domain Name System. (Production brought to you by Maddie and Anna. Thanks!) ... DNS
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12. Real Estate Finance and its Vulnerability to Crisis
Financial Markets (ECON 252) Real Estate is the biggest asset class and of great importance for both individuals and institutional investors. An array of economic and psychological factors ...
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Exploiting Windows Vulnerabilities with Metasploit
Segment from Hak5 1x05 - Exploiting Windows Vulnerabilities with Metasploit

Vulnerability from WikiPedia:

Vulnerability is the susceptibility to physical or emotional injury or attack. It also means to have one's guard down, open to censure or criticism; assailable. Vulnerability refers to a person's state of being liable to succumb, as to persuasion or temptation.

A window of vulnerability, sometimes abbreviated to wov, is a time frame within which defensive measures are reduced, compromised or lacking.

In relation to hazards and disasters, vulnerability is a concept that links the relationship that people have with their environment to social forces and institutions and the cultural values that sustain and contest them. “The concept of vulnerability expresses the multidimensionality of disasters by focusing attention on the totality of relationships in a given social situation which constitute a condition that, in combination with environmental forces, produces a disaster” (Bankoff et al. 2004: 11).