The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about the latest “phishing” scam that is making the rounds of Facebook this week.

The subject of the new scam is McDonald’s, but the real target is your personal information. This phishing scam is being spread via status updates exclaiming that McDonald’s will be closing and it has a link to find out the “real” reason why.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a warning to
alert users about an ongoing threat involving pop-up security messages
that appear on the Internet. These pop-up messages may contain
seemingly legitimate antivirus software.

Adobe has stated that they are investigating public reports of a
vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Public reports
indicate that exploitation of this vulnerability may occur when a user
opens a specially crafted PDF file.

US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via phishing email messages that appear to come from the Social Security Administration. The messages indicate that the users’ annual Social Security statements may contain errors and instruct users to follow a link to review their Social Security statement. If users click this link, they [...]

Because of its popularity, the internet has become an ideal target for advertising. As a result, spyware, or adware, has become increasingly prevalent. When troubleshooting problems with your computer, you may discover that the source of the problem is spyware software that has been installed on your machine without your knowledge.

Apple has released Safari 4.0.4 to address multiple vulnerabilities in a number of components. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, conduct cross-site request forgery, or obtain sensitiveinformation. These vulnerabilities affect Safari running on both the Mac OS X and Windows platforms.AlexPC encourages users and administrators [...]

Apple has released Mac OS X v10.6.2 and Security Update 2009-006 to address multiple vulnerabilities in a number of applications. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, conduct a man-in-the-middle attack, operate with escalated privileges, or obtain sensitive information.AlexPC encourages users and administrators to review Apple article HT3937 [...]

Research in Motion has released Security Advisory KB19701 to address a vulnerability in BlackBerry Desktop Manager. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

AlexPC encourages users to review BlackBerry Security Advisory KB19701 and apply any necessary updates.

The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to be on the lookout for fraudulent e-mails and Web sites trying to take advantage of the H1N1 (swine) flu pandemic and the growing public concern over it. “Scammers are successful, because they use current headlines as hooks to catch a lot of fish,” said BBB president Tom [...]

Adobe has released Shockwave Player 11.5.2.602 to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to run malicious code on the user’s machine.

You may have heard of denial-of-service attacks launched against websites, but you can also be a victim of these attacks. Denial-of-service attacks can be difficult to distinguish from common network activity, but there are some indications that an attack is in progress. What is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack? A denial-of-service (DoS) attack, an attacker attempts [...]