Symantec Security Response has detected activity surrounding a zero-day exploit discovered in Microsoft Word 2003.

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Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS) has discovered a serious vulnerability in Sendmail SMTP server software. Sendmail is the most popular mail transfer agent (MTA) on the Internet and is used extensively by large corporations and government agencies to route and deliver email.

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Kaspersky Lab warns users against Email-Worm.Win32.Nyxem.e, which potentially poses a serious threat.

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Throughout December, Websense Security Labs reported a number of cases where browser and Operating System vulnerabilities were being used to install Potentially Unwanted Software onto end-users' machines without user-intervention. In several cases, dozens of pieces of code were installed, and often report false information in order to entice the end-user to clean their machine from spyware.

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Major organisations have been the target victims of phishing attacks, but the latest amalgamation between pharming and phishing is making for a deadly combination. By poisoning the actual DNS server a pharming attack can easily lull the victim into a false sense of security, duping them into accessing what looks like an official web address.

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Secunia reports a highly critical vulnerability in Skype clients (Advisory SA17305, CVE-2005-3265 2005-10-25).

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Websense Security Labs has observed a surge of new phishing attacks targeting European banks. Phishing attacks against over two dozen new European banks have been detected within the past 24 hours.

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Websense Security Labs reports a new phishing attack that targets people to donate money in order to support the relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina.

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A growing wave of stealth worms and malware using rootkit functionality specifically created to steal intellectual property has put corporations on the alert. One worm in particular, Myfip.H uses stealth kernel rootkit techniques to hide from the system administrator and conventional AV software.

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American Power Conversion has announced that customers using older versions of its PowerChute Business Edition software must immediately upgrade, if they have not already done so, to ensure continued availability of servers on which the software is installed, as previously advised by APC's web site and email communications efforts.

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