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Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that their July release cycle will contain six bulletins, three of which have a maximum severity rating of Critical.
The notification further states that the three Critical bulletins are for Windows, Office, Excel, and .NET Framework.
There will also be two Important bulletins for Office [...]

Hackers have latched on to exploit code for the critical bugs in Yahoo Messenger, setting up 40 to 50 malicious Web sites to attack unsuspecting and unpatched, users.
Malware writers have picked up the exploit code, which was first publicly posted last week and have quickly gone to work with it.
The malicious code takes advantage [...]

True or false: when you use the Mac platform, you never have to worry about security again?
At the risk of offending all the Apple Macintosh users and supporters out there, the answer is a resounding false.
That’s not to say the Mac isn’t inherently secure but rather there are many factors to consider. Here are my [...]

It seems in recent months a lot of my friends, family and co-workers have had some issues with Spyware, Adware and Viruses.
Since I always seem to be the “go-to” geek when things like this happen, I figured it would be a good subject for a post on one of the programs I use [...]

The Mozilla web browser Firefox and derived products like Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and the Netscape Browser contain several vulnerabilities, the most severe of which could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system.
To solve this problem, Mozilla Foundation, the nice people behind Firefox have just released a very important security release, so [...]

You know how people are always claiming that Apple OS is so secure and it never has attacks or vulnerabilities?
Apparently Apple has released a security update with a total of 13 fixes for vulnerabilities in Mac OS X Panther and Tiger.
The update is available for download through the Apple’s Web site or through Apple’s automatic [...]