When is Computer Security Day? What can forward secrecy do for you? Can you believe there’s an 0-day in XP? Have some fun finding out the answers in this week’s 60 Second Security!
Naked Security – Sophos
SophosLabs was contacted recently to help investigate malware from an unusual sort of targeted attack. What our researchers found was intriguing, to say the least, so we thought we’d share our discoveries with you… 
Naked Security – Sophos
Microsoft released an out-of-cycle emergency patch for the Internet Explorer zero-day exploit that put computers at risk of Poison Ivy infections, a type of malware that can steal data or take remote control of PCs. Read more
Do you use Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 or 9? If so, then you might catch a nasty itch since malicious hackers are using those IE browsers “to install the Poison Ivy Trojan—malware that can steal data or take remote control of PCs,” the BBC warned. This new zero-day can potentially infect “hundreds of millions” of IE browsers. Read more