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The Better Business Bureau is warning consumers about an email scam being perpetrated under its name.

Though perfectly accurate and in line with the million identical studies -- making itself completely extraneous -- Microsoft's new security study spends a lot of effort establishing that few malware infections are its fault. Thanks. You still have to fix what's broke.

Popureb infects MBR; so you have to fix the MBR; fixing MBR before recovering wipes your data; if you didn't know that ahead of time, you'd wish you had your data, the trojan, and the MS support tech who wrote the instructions all in front of you at once.

The only surprise about another data breach at a government agency holding sensitive personal data is that it's happened AGAIN. What does it take to justify a lockdown?

The Stuxnet virus hit not one group in Iran, but five, all by direction. Now the 4Chan Anonymous hactivists claim to have source code.

Nuclear fuel plants aren't the only potential target for attacks that slow centrifuge controls, but they're far more likely than most other plants.

Your desktops' operating systems? Your servers' operating systems? Your firewall? Or...

Malware, like real-world epidemics, has the strange property that it does not only matter to your health how well protected you are, but also, how well average people "out there" are. The more machines that are infected, the higher is your risk of also becoming infected. But that is not all: You are at risk even if you are well protected!