Here’s an important Web warning for our US-based readers: be on the lookout for online tax season scams and census-related fraud.

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Tax Season Scams

Most of us use the Web on a daily basis, without ever giving much thought to the undersea world which keeps us all connected. (Case in point: have you heard of Google’s $300 million ‘Unity’ project that will soon deliver a new high-speed Internet cable, increasing capacity across the Pacific by 20 percent?).

News broke this week of another incident involving high-level cyber crime stemming from China –

As Lavasoft’s senior technologies director, I recently had the opportunity to attend the RSA conference, one of the year’s most anticipated security conferences. Among all the security talks from other experts in the field, what struck me most in terms of computer users’ security is the risks we each face due to sharing information on social networks  – whether it’s on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, or the many more that are available today. We open ourselves up on these sites, leaving bits and bites of personal information accessible, not thinking of the ease of which ill-intentioned people may be able to connect the dots.

In its second out-of-band update (meaning delivered outside of the regular Patch Tuesday schedule) in the past three months, Microsoft said today that it’s planning to issue an emergency security update tomorrow. The update will patch a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that has been used to launch drive-by attacks.

Check Microsoft’s ‘Security Bulletin Advance Notification’ for full details.