Archive for January 21st, 2010

Early this afternoon Microsoft released an out-of-band security bulletin patching the vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The fix has been at the top of the news since the vulnerabilities it treats are believed to have led to the compromise of G... »

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a report that says 95 percent of all email is now spam. The report was based on surveying last year of email traffic by about 100 service providers in 30 countries.ENISA Executiv... »

System Defender is a rogue antispyware program, or a PC infection made to look like real security software. System Defender is a scam designed to trick people out of their money.If your PC has been infected with System Defender, you will most likely e... »

ArmorDefender, ProtectSoldier and ProtectDefender are the latest rogue antispyware programs released by cyber thieves to terrorize PC users. ArmorDefender, ProtectSoldier and ProtectDefender are phony security programs that trick people into buying th... »

Antivirus360 is a phony antivirus program, designed to rip people off. Cyber thieves who created phony software like Antivirus360 use scare tactics to frighten people into buying the software.Antivirus360 will show false security warnings and scan res... »

Privacy advocate and researcher Ben Edelman has found that Upromise savings, a service that collects commissions from participating merchants for its members’ college savings accounts, scrapes personal information, including credit card numbers, from... »

Hello, Today we released Security Bulletin MS10-002 out-of-band to address vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. All customers using currently supported versions of Windows and Internet Explorer should apply this update as soon as possible. Once applied, customers are protected against the known attacks that have been widely publicized. For customers using automatic updates, this... »

Security firm Imperva of Redwood Shores, Calif., found a unique way to gage the quality of the passwords that Web users select: they analyzed the 32 million passwords in the unencrypted file of passwords that miscreants stole from the servers of RockYo... »

Microsoft has said it will issue an out-of-band patch today for critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer that allow remote execution of code. The company said yesterday it would not wait until the February "Patch Tuesday" to fix the vulnerabilitie... »