Facebook has fixed a security vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to record video from a victim's webcam and then post it to their timeline without requesting their permission.

A security firm claims to have found a way to bypass Microsoft's "Fix It" Patch for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 which would allow the exploit that the patch closes to be used by hackers.

This utility scans the passwords stored by popular Windows applications (Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and more...) and displays security information about all these passwords.

xpy is a small program which will disable the default threats of your Windows XP installation. Besides the classic antispy features, xpy closes recent security holes like the remote procure call (rpc) service and the distributed component object model (dcom).

Microsoft published the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for January 2013

Microsoft has released updates for Windows for the Microsoft Untrusted Certificate Store

Watering hole attacks have been in the news as of late. Symantec published a question and answer blog post to explain exactly what a watering hole attack is, its prevalence and how to prevent an attack .

"A watering hole attack is a method of targeting sites which are likely to be visited by targets of interest. The attacker will compromise the site and inject JavaScript or HTML to redirect victims to additional malicious code. The compromised site is then left “waiting” to exploit users who visit through drive-by downloads."

Microsoft announced Saturday that older versions of Internet Explorer (v 6, 7 and 8) are vulnerable to remote execution code that the bad guys are currently using to target those with mainly IE 8.
They are working on the issues and will eventually release a patch, but your best bet is to upgrade to IE 9 or 10 ASAP or even try a different browser like Chrome

RogueKiller is a tool written in C, which scans the processes running, and kill those who are malicious. Author developed this tool after seeing that some rogues blocked the execution of disinfection programs.

The Council on Foreign Relations website has been hit by a watering hole attack using an IE 8 zero-day exploit. Watering hole attacks target topically connected websites that an attacker believes members of a particular organization will visit often.

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Microsoft on Saturday confirmed that Internet Explorer (IE) 6, 7 and 8 contain a zero-day vulnerability

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The Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web warns Internet users about a new malicious program for Android. TheAndroid.DDoS.1.origin can carry out DDoS-attacks on various internet resources and send short messages upon a corresponding command from criminals.

As yet it is not known exactly how the virus is spread.

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Malware of the family Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Xorist makes computers uncontrollable or blocks its normal performance. After taking the data as a “hostage” (blocking it), a ransom is demanded from the user.

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RogueKiller is a tool written in C, which scans the processes running, and kill those who are malicious. Author developed this tool after seeing that some rogues blocked the execution of disinfection programs.

After legal threats from the music industry the UK Pirate Party saw no other option than to shut down their Pirate Bay proxy service. However, as is usually the case with censorship, the Internet has found a way to route around it. Responding to the UK situation Pirate parties in Argentina and Luxembourg have decided to start fresh Pirate Bay proxies.