A clone of the annoying and well spread rogue SecurityTool has now been released. It's hosted on a Russian domain and is named SmartSecurity.

Here’s a little cyber world humor for you today –

While Internet Explorer 6 is still alive and kicking (as of last month, reports say, it still held almost 20 percent of the browser market share), many would like to see it dead and buried. So much so, in fact, that tongue-in-cheek funerals are being staged for the ‘aging’ browser, complete with obituaries, memorial services and eulogies, CNN reports.

Big news today in terms of battling botnets:

Spanish authorities have taken down one of the world’s largest botnets, and have arrested three of the alleged masterminds behind it.

A word of caution: Microsoft has issued a warning on an unpatched vulnerability that could affect users of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003, running Internet Explorer.

“The vulnerability exists in the way that VBScript interacts with Windows Help files when using Internet Explorer,” the security advisory reads. “If a malicious Web site displayed a specially crafted dialog box and a user pressed the F1 key, arbitrary code could be executed…”