The Spyware Biz Blog

The Internet is a very important tool.? These days, if you don’t know how to use the Internet, you’re severely hindered.? But it is also a floodgate for many dangerous and harmful influences such as, but not limited to, pornography, virus infections, encounters with strangers and predators, bullying, and so much more.

BitDefender launched their 2010 line of security offerings on Monday, introducing optimized scanning, user profiling, as well as a new technology called Active Virus Control. The Tech Herald met with BitDefender for lunch on Monday to get the details about the new release. We walked away with a solid respect for the new product, not because of what it does, but because of what it doesn’t do.

Mozilla has released two advisories to patch serious security flaws in its flagship Firefox Web browser.

The vulnerabilities are rated “critical,” meaning they can be exploited by malicious hackers to run harmful code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.?? These issues were separately discussed at last week’s Black Hat conference by researchers Moxie Marlinspike and Dan Kaminsky.