I’ve been checking my spam filter, just for the fun of it, as the spammmers are writing more timely and entertaining subject lines as an enticement to get people to open their missives. Take the following spam headlines, for example, that appeared in the last 48 hours. All capitalize on public attention to current events, [...]
Engine upgrade follows LinkScanner traffic spew fix AVG has published an engine upgrade to its popular anti-virus scanning software that addresses a raft of stability bugs.… Read more…
Webmail service POP losses its fizzle Google allowed one of its Gmail SSL certificates to expire days after promising users improved webmail security.… Read more…
RealNetworks has shipped a new version of its RealPlayer software to plug at least four serious security holes in the program. Updates are available for RealPlayer versions 10, 10.5 and 11 for Linux, Mac and Windows systems. Windows versions of RealPlayer are affected by all four vulnerabilities (two of the flaws are once again ActiveX [...]
Three-quarters of all Web sites that try to foist malicious software on visitors are legitimate sites that have been hacked, a report released today found. Even worse, most of these compromised sites are social networking communities and some of the Internet’s most popular destinations. Those numbers come from stats (PDF) collected in the first six [...]