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Watch out for swine flu email scams

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Opportunistic scammers and spammers are actively exploiting the swine flu buzz across the web by spamvertising links to pharmaceutical scams, and bogus ‘Swine Flu Survival Guides’ using search engine optimization of typosquatted domains related to the outbreak.

Microsoft Patches for April 2009 – 5 critical

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Microsoft plans to ship 8 security bulletins next Tuesday (April 14, 2009) to fix remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities affecting Windows, Office and Internet Explorer.

Be careful when searching for Conficker help on the web

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

If you’re trawling the Web for information on disinfecting the Conficker worm, be very, very careful.

Microsoft Patches for March 2009 – 1 critical

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Microsoft today outlined plans to ship three security bulletins for software vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system.

Microsoft: Patch now or face attacks

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Microsoft today shipped four bulletins with patches for at least 8 documented security vulnerabilities affecting Windows users and warned that “consistent exploit code could be easily crafted” to launch attacks via the Internet Explorer browser.

Internet Explorer hit by zero-day exploit

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Internet Explorer 7 users have been exposed to a zero-day exploit that may have been accidentally let loose by Chinese security researchers.

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