on Life and Livingness – by Tom

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has urged Australian computer users to change their passwords to a minimum of eight characters, as part of the inaugural “change your password day”. here

Microsoft released 10 updates to various versions of Windows, components of Microsoft Office, and a cumulative update to Internet Explorer on Tuesday. The company patched a total of 31 vulnerabilities in the update, with some being highly exploitable. here

Adobe has delivered its first quarterly roundup of security patches, fixing critical vulnerabilities in Reader and Acrobat that could cause the applications to crash, and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the systems. here

Try this in Windows; whilst holding down the Windows key and pressing F key at the same time will spawn the Search dialog box.

Plain old Web searching doesn’t do the trick anymore: It yields too much random data, or not what you need. Here’s how to get what you want when you want it, sometimes before you ask for it. here

ScanSafe says the Gumblar Web site compromise attack adds new domains, steals data and continues to propagate after infections are cleaned up, making it worse than Conficker. more