The virus attacks the computers by older versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash. When a computer has been infected the Google search engine is then affected, whose results quietly redirects to sites that then steal information from your own computer. The aim is to obtain information, for example bank …

Microsoft confirmed yesterday that there is a bug in the company’s web server IIS 6. According to the Microsoft security risk is minimal since it requires that the server is configured in a special way for the security hole to be exploited. In a security bulletin that Microsoft released yesterday …

We’ve all seen the headlines in major newspapers, news web sites and on TV about the Swine Flue outbreaks. The Swine Flue is on the top 10 list twice over trending topics from Twitter (see the picture) and at Google you already get over 75,000 hits! Spammers have of course …

As always spammers take advatage of big events to make people interested in the emails they get. And as alwasy spammers have already started sending out fake emails about the Swine Flue. McAfee is reporting about spam emails trying to use Swine Flue to sell pills. If you follow the …

Finnish F-Secure is recommending people to stop using Adobe Reader due to all security vulnerability in that software lately. This year over 47% of all direct attacks have been using security problems in Adobes softwares according to Mikko Hyppönen from F-Secure. His advice is to completely stop using Adobe Reader …

I just got a scam email from someone trying to hijack your personal information using PayPal as decoy. The scammers will try to give you the impression that your PayPal account has been limited and you need to provide them with some additional information to prove you are actually you. …

The lesson learned from this blog post is to never send any information about your identity without first checking the identity of the company/person requesting the information. I got this email in my inbox earlier today and someone with my ID card, a copy of one of my utility bills …

Security companies have found a new and extremely critical vulnerability in Power Point in Microsofts Office suite. The vulnerability allows attackers to take control over the operating system and control computers remotely using special code inside a Power Point presentation. The security company Securia is ranking this as “extremely critical” …

Yesterday I got an email from Spotify telling me to change my password since their music service had been compromised by the group behind Despotify. This is from the email they sent out: Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise our protocols. After investigating we …