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Today is Patch Tuesday. This is the day when Microsoft updates and patches all the errors and vulnerabilities that have been found in the recent past. This week the geeks at Microsoft address 34 security problems within 13 updates. Eight of these will be labeled critical. Of those, two very serious issues are being addressed.  [...]

The BBC has reported that Windows Hotmail has been hacked and an upwards of tens of thousands of accounts have fallen victim to a phishing scam. For those of you who don’t know what phishing is, it is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card [...]

UPDATE: Tweetdeck did not jump the shark with their new iPhone app and updates to the desktop version. They jumped in the pool, wrestled the shark by hand and ripped it’s eyes out, sucking the little sharkbrain out of the sockets for good measure. I have been on the iPhone app for several hours now [...]

Security Experts from Websense have said that more than 40,000 sites have been infected from a malicious code that installs malware on users machines that visit multiple sites. Beladen.net is one of the internet domains that unleashed the attacks on unpatched versions of IE, Firefox and Quicktime. A piece of hidden javascript is different enough [...]

There are a million posts and blogs out there that tell you how to make your computer safe on the interwebs. I’m going to tell you how to bulletproof the damn thing. I’m also going to tell you how to do it on the cheap. You don’t have to be an uber-geek or millionaire to [...]