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Russia has overtaken China as the world’s highest producer of spyware and viruses according to researchers at security vendor PC Tools. A project funded by the Department of Homeland Security promises to give security researchers a new way to kill botnets and targeted malware attacks before they infect computers. Microsoft on Tuesday released 11 patches fixing 17 vulnerabilities - six of them "critical" - but failed to patch an exploited flaw in Microsoft Excel revealed last month. After a brief hiatus, new variants have appeared in the wild of Trojan.Mebroot, a rogue rootkit discovered in December attacking the Windows Master Boot Record (MBR), Symantec has warned. Mozilla released Firefox version 2.0.0.12 on Thursday, fixing 10 vulnerabilities -- three critical -- in the alternative web browser. Online security firm PC Tools has warned of a new software program developed in Russia, which flirts with people seeking relationships online in order to collect their personal data.. The first drive-by pharming attacks have been spotted in the wild, researchers said this week. The personally identifiable information of about 650,000 customers of JCPenney and other retailers is at risk after a data tape went missing from storage vendor Iron Mountain. A Valentine's day storm is brewing early, warns anti-virus vendor, PC Tools. According to anti-virus vendor Secure Computing a botnet virus, dubbed Nugache, is set to unseat Storm as the nastiest botnet on the planet. Cybercriminals can log the keystrokes of end-users by cracking the encryption of non-Bluetooth wireless keyboards from over 30 feet away, according to researchers at Dreamlab Technologies. Forgotten and mislaid passwords could be a thing of the past. A German start-up claims its typing recognition system will solve the problems associated with traditional password authentication. A bill introduced this week in the US would allow victims of identity theft to seek restitution for their crime-related expenses. A vulnerability in Citrix Presentation Server Client that can be exploited by attackers to compromise a PC was reported this week. The infamous storm worm trojan, which first hit inboxes in January, is poised to become a for-sale spam botnet system, complete with fast-flux DNS and hosting capabilities. Firm claims proactive detection of viruses, Trojans, rootkits, key-loggers
and spyware. ZoneAlarm plays in the sandbox. PC Tools has launched a global threat analysis website that provides users with detailed information on suspected security risks in minutes. While computer viruses are almost exclusively the work of organised criminals, mobile viruses are largely the work of amateurs, according to an industry expert. Secunia blamed Microsoft this week for a URI handling flaw that can be exploited when a user browses with Firefox but has Internet Explorer (IE) 7 installed.