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Microsoft Word and Publisher vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft Word and Publisher. Attackers are also using Word to exploit a vulnerability in the Jet Database Engine. Apply the latest Microsoft patches and ensure that your antivirus software is up to date. >Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2008
No significant threats.
Users are advised to use basic caution when handling emails. Although no noteworthy email is currently circulating, many malicious emails continue to be distributed on a daily basis.
No significant threats
Users are advised to use basic caution when carrying out activities using instant messengers. Although no noteworthy attacks are being carried out, instant messengers remain a popular means of attack.
Microsoft Word and Publisher vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft Word and Publisher. Attackers are also using Word to exploit a vulnerability in the Jet Database Engine. Apply the latest Microsoft patches and ensure that your antivirus software is up to date. >Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2008

How They Attack

Threats today have become more complicated. They tend to use multiple vectors to spread, thus increasing their chances of infection. Once on the system, these threats tend to show little to no symptoms so they can survive undetected.
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Vulnerabilities Spyware Spam Malware Phishing

What is Cybercrime?

Over the last 18 months, an ominous change has swept across the Internet. The tools driving the new attacks and fueling the blackmarket are crimeware - bots, Trojan horses, and spyware.

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