The following is the executive summary paragraph to the weekly Intelligence Summary report Verizon Business Cybertrust Security’s Risk Team provides. The purpose is to capture in one paragraph the most risk-significant events, over the past week, from an enterprise perspective.

Microsoft made their pre-release announcement for October Black Tuesday and 13 bulletins, eight “critical” using their criteria. Patches for the SMB2 and IIS/FTP vulnerabilities are among those expected. Adobe’s advance notice for their quarterly security update to Adobe Acrobat and Reader includes a vulnerability they know is being used in limited, targeted attacks, other vulnerabilities will be patched too. The mass compromise of web mail passwords dominated this week’s news; we agree with ScanSafe’s assessment they were probably the result of malcode infections and not phishing. The scale of this infection/breach is more significant to enterprise security than the web e-mail accounts that were compromised. Reports the FBI director’s spouse refuses to allow on-line banking is a serious indictment of on-line trust and we will be tracking related reports of trust erosion, especially by high-profile individuals, groups and companies.