Recently, I've been seeing phishing attacks using Web forms attached to emails making the rounds again. This type of phishing isn't so common but is used on occasion, so I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone not to fall for this trick.

Michael Jackson's new song "This Is It" premiered on MichaelJackson.com at midnight on October 12 where fans can listen to it for free. But apparently a 45-second preview of the song leaked onto YouTube the day before.

Does the following screenshot look familiar to you? It sure does to us here at Symantec because it looks nearly identical to our Norton 2009 product. However, it is actually a misleading application we detect as Trojan.Fakeavalert.

It's Independence Day weekend in the United States and many folks are out at picnics, barbeques, and catching firework shows. However, some of us here in the security industry missed out on these events due a new exploit for a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's Video Streaming ActiveX control that we discovered in the wild right before the weekend started.