Updates are Available!

Argie Gallego, an Anti-Spam Research Engineer at Trendlabs, writes in the Trendmicro blog about emails purporting to be "Critical Updates" for Outlook and Outlook Express.

Microsoft Corporation regularly issues updates to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities in its software products. These updates are meant to protect its users from different attacks that depend mainly on exploiting these documented bugs.

Close to the weekend, we identified spam claiming to be a Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express critical update that “offers the highest levels of stability and security.”

Read more here.

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To secure or not to secure

A letter sent to Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt asks that Google up it's security for online users.  Specifically it asks that industry standard transport encryption technology (HTTPS) for Google Mail, Docs, and Calendar be enabled by default.

Google supports HTTPS encryption for the entire Gmail, Docs or Calendar session. However, this is disabled by default, and the configuration option controlling this security mechanism is not easy to discover. Few users know the risks they face when  logging into Google’s Web applications from an unsecured network, and Google’s existing efforts are little help.

Raising the security for all users would definitely make things safer but is the "unknowledgeable" user going to understand why things are running a little slower?  It will take some good PR from Google to make security concerns, instead of speed, a priority for end-users.

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