Smarts, Not Big Bucks, Helps Stave off Malware – Two years ago, U.S. retailer TJX spent some US$130 million — including US$65 million to two credit card companies — to clean up the mess after the online theft from its computers of consumer data.
1 in 5 Windows PCs Still Hackable by Conficker – Although the media blitz about the Conficker worm prompted a significant number of enterprise users to finally fix a six-month-old Windows bug, about 1 in 5 business computers still lack the patch.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday Plugs Security Holes – Microsoft releases eight security bulletins for April’s Patch Tuesday. Some of the bulletins address issues being targeted by hackers in the wild, including vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel and WordPad.
Scareware pops-up at FoxNews – There have been numerous reports from affected users that a scareware variant of PersonalAntivirus and ExtraAntivirus has been popping-up at FoxNews.com.
Twitter is Dangerous – During the last few days, there’s been a dramatic rise in the number of people whom I am allegedly following. What’s happened? I really don’t know (Dennis Howlett).
