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• Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploit: Protecting Your PC Adobe has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Follow this advice to protect yourself from becoming a victim.
• Adobe Reader Under Zero-Day Attack Online crooks are using an e-mailed .pdf to exploit a new zero-day flaw in Adobe Reader and Acrobat and install a Trojan.
• Web Services Should Add 'Scam Protection' If Yahoo and Google already search e-mail to generate targeted ads, why not targeted warnings?
• Fake Swine Flu Emails Lead to Real Malware Infection Security companies have issued warnings of e-mails that appear to come from the Centers for Disease Control, but in fact lead to the Zeus Trojan.
• Hacked Climate Change E-mails Highlight Security Concerns In the heat of the climate change debate sparked by hacked e-mail messages, there has been little discussion of how the e-mails were leaked. In a connected world, security and privacy are both more important, and harder to come by.
• Fake Payment Request Attack Ramps Up More than a million trojan-laden spam attacks are masquerading as a payment confirmation request.
• Feds Can Search Your E-Mail Without Notice, Judge Rules Only the ISP must be served with a search warrant to let law enforcement search your virtual mailbox, a federal judge says.
• Google Offers Advice on Secure Passwords Some tips may be basic, but Google is offering plenty of advice on keeping your online accounts safe.
• Stolen Hotmail Passwords Show that Crooks like Webmail Tips for staying secure after hotmail (and possibly gmail and yahoo) accounts were publicly exposed.
• Easy Email Encryption Lite Lives up to Its Name Encrypt your e-mail messages with Easy Email Encryption Lite to keep your business from prying eyes.
• New Microsoft Antivirus Tool Arrives Today In the works for some time, Microsoft's free Security Essentials anti-malware software will be available for download today, the vendor confirmed.
• Bank Sues Google for Gmail User's Identity After the bank accidentally sent confidential information on more than a thousand customers to the wrong Gmail address, it wants to know who reads that account.
• Internet Security Trends 2009: An Interim Update The effects of cybercrime are far reaching. It would be a difficult task to find someone who has never been affected by malicious Internet activity, or who does...
• Essential Security Fixes for Adobe Flash, Reader, Acrobat and AIR Adobe issued accross-the-board patches to ward off active attacks disclosed earlier this month.
• E-Mail Etiquette: Tips for Home and Work Don't be someone who annoys friends and coworkers with inconsiderate e-mail habits.
• Zero-day PDF Attack Goes After Flash Flaw A new limited attack uses poisoned PDF files to target a flaw in Flash and install malware.
• Well-honed Attacks Sneak Under the Radar Examples of 'bait files' show that the targeted attacks may be hard to spot.
• Michael Jackson Death Spurs Spam, Viruses Spammers and scammers are wasting no time taking advantage of Michael Jackson's death. Here are some of the Jackson-related hoaxes already moving through the Net.
• Buy an Infected PC for 5 cents Crooks use the "Golden Cash" site and similar black-market services to buy and sell the use of malware-infected PCs.
• Google to Try More Security on Gmail Google will test a more secure version of its Gmail service using HTTPS in response to urging from privacy advocates.
• Review: E-mail Encryption Made Easy What are you doing to protect your company's sensitive e-mail? We test three apps that can ease the process.
• G-Data Internet Security 2010 This little-known suite takes top honors in our midyear roundup.
• Securing the Desktop: Eight Internet Security Suites In the fast-evolving arena of online threats and defenses, our midyear roundup includes security suites from around the world.
• Corporate-Espionage, E-mail Break-in Case Zaps Electronics Industry The corporate-espionage case of David Goldenberg, former executive with AMX Corp., is rocking the world of high-end office and consumer electronics systems.
• Has RSA Jumped the Shark? One editor reflects on RSA Conference 2009 weighing the good, bad, and 'shark jumping' moments.