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A patch was released yesterday to fix seven vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. Six of them are critical bugs.

The update was the first for the software since July.

One of the bugs that were fixed is in the Flash Player ActiveX control for IE. An attacker can pilfer information by taking advantage of the hole.

“Overall their security advisories are on par with Apple’s. Well actually, I might have to give Apple a few notches up over Adobe,” said Andrew Storms of nCircle Network Security.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD

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The closure of GeoCities marks the end of an era, as the Internet community says goodbye to the pioneering Web site creation and hosting service portal.

Yahoo shut down the site Monday, 10 years after it bought the Web property for almost US$3.6 billion in stock–though the value was later revised to US$4.5 billion….

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-357081.html?tag=content;col1

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Source: ZDNet

The Internet may be getting friendlier for a significant chunk of the world. A proposal is up for a vote to let Web addresses use non-English characters. end photo The proposed change (PDF), known as Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), will allow the use of non-Latin characters in the entire address. Currently, such characters are allowed only in part of the address. IDNs will let people who write in Chinese, Korean, or Arabic use their own languages to surf the Web, and is expected to jump-start Internet use in many regions across the globe.

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is responsible for managing domain names on the Net, will review the historic, hot-button proposal on Friday at its six-day 36th International Public Meeting in Seoul. If approved, IDNs could kick in as early as mid-2010…click link below to read more.

Source: cnet
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10382873-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

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I have been asked many times why I recommend AVG as the anti-virus tool of choice.  Well for one reason it is free for Home use.  Other products charge you first for the software license and then for the subscription service.  Worse yet when a “Major” revision takes place to the engine you can keep your old engine and subscription in place but if you want the new engine be ready to fork over more money for another license and subsequent subscription.  Add to the fact that some Antivirus vendors have the best labs in the world and they think of these threats all day everyday so they think you need an Elephant gun to shoot a mouse and they still miss!  This causes your machine to be slow all the time without any greater chance of being protected.  Enter AVG with their one of a kind “Link Scanner” which is built into their Antivirus tool.

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The Threat Landscape

If you still haven’t downloaded AVG LinkScanner® , we’d hate to worry you, but ignorance is not bliss in the current online environment:

• 95% of online threats are web-based and cannot be stopped with anti-virus software alone.
• AVG sees 100,000-150,000 threats a day, 30,000 of these are new each day.
• Online criminals set up their own websites or poison legitimate ones (even just single web pages).
• 60% of all pages hosting web threats are poisoned for less than a day, making the threats difficult to catch unless they are viewed on the actual page in real-time. This makes AVG LinkScanner® essential protection.
• One in eight web users will unknowingly come across a poisoned page at least once a month.

Online criminals are getting smarter. But we’re always ahead of them. Our real-time AVG LinkScanner® software detects threats at the only time it matters – before you arrive. And the software is free, so why not just download it?

AVG LinkScanner® has a two-fold approach to your safety online:

• Search-Shield scans search results and places a safety rating next to each link, so you know where it’s safe to click.
• Active Surf-Shield scans the page behind any link you click on or any web address you type into your browser. If the page is poisoned, it stops you from opening it. (This happens so quickly that you don’t even notice it.)

The fact that AVG LinkScanner® works in real-time makes it unique. The software doesn’t rely on “blacklists” of sites that have previously been poisoned, but instead checks for active threats right before you arrive at a page.

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The conclusion is simple.  Using AVG with the free link scanner reduces your chances of infection and best of all it uses very little system resources so you can rest assured that there is a perfect balance between system security and system performance.

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A researcher for Sophos has created a Trojan for research and education purposes. This Trojan injects code into a .dll component of the skype application which then hooks into the send and receive of skypes API’s. This allows the Trojan to intercept the incoming and outgoing conversations being transmitted between callers and send this video and audio data back to the attacker. Worse yet the Trojan can deliver its payload if only 1 of the two parties are protected. This means that if your computer is protected but the person on the other end is not you can still have the words stolen literally right out of your mouth.

Source: Sophos
http://www.sophos.com/blogs/sophoslabs/v/post/6257

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