VaporStream is a new product that offers recordless email that disappears after being read. And, it can’t be forwarded, can’t be printed, and can’t be stored. But here’s what I want to know: if you have to go through the trouble of logging in to someone else’s server – and paying to do it – in order to not send a regular email, why wouldn’t you just pick up the phone?

A new report out by online security firm Symantec indicates that the fastest and largest growing sector of online security attacks are attacks against home users and their computers.

Is Google eavesdropping? Google researchers recently announced a method to allow them to listen in to your life by listening in through your computer’s microphone. Is Google listening? Will they?

It is perhaps the logical next step to blogs for whistleblowers. Michael De Kort, a Lockheed engineer, has posted a video of himself on You Tube, blowing the whistle on what he says are serious security issues with Coast Guard patrol boats in the Deepwater project.

Now this is a fabulous theft and loss insurance for your phone, PDA or laptop! It’s called StuffBak (because it helps you get your stuff back, get it?) and it’s kind of like those microchipping i.d. services for pets, only it’s for your portable electronic devices, such as your laptop, your PDA, and your cell phone! It’s basically loss and theft insurance for your portables! And through a partnership with The Internet Patrol and StuffBak, you can get a 10% discount off their already incredibly reasonable pricing!

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through its United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has warned all Americans running Windows to make haste to apply the MS06-040 patch which was issued by Microsoft this week. The MS06-040 patch corrects a flaw which makes computers running Windows particularly vulnerable.

A security hole has hit Microsoft Excel, of all programs. We’re used to security holes in our browsers, our instant messenger programs, and even,sometimes, Word. But in our spreadsheet program? In Excel??

A new Yahoo worm being called the “Yamanner worm” is targeting all of Yahoo email; in fact the only version of the Yahoo email program which is at present safe from the Yamanner Yahoo email worm is a not yet fully released beta version of Yahoo mail.

Archiveus is the newest of a string of Trojans being dubbed “ransomware” because they lock and hold your files hostage until you either purchase something from the ransomware’s author or pay the ransomware’s author money outright. Here is the password to unlock your files which have been locked by the ransomware Archiveus.

Ginwui.a (also Oscor-B, W32/Ginwui.A.dr, Backdoor.Ginwui, and W32/Ginwui.A) takes advantage of a security hole in Microsoft Word, allowing attackers to infiltrate your computer through email.

Check Raised’s RBCalc.exe has the Backdoor.Win32.Small.la (Small.la for short) rootkit trojan hiding in it. It contains the following trojan files: utlsrv.exe, comclg32.dll, d3dclsrv.dll and ndsdavsrv.sys.

Secure your computer, and take back the net! At least one in every three PCs has been compromised and is being used by spammers and phishers as part of their zombie computer “botnets”. And the owners don’t even know! Secure your computer for free. We tell you how!

The Sprint Family Locator is a new service being offered by Sprint that allows you to track up to four family phones via their GPS coordinates.

FireFox security vulnerabilities have been announced this week by parent company Mozilla. Some of them are quite severe, and so should be attended to immediately.

Through the unintended publication of some internal notes, Google this week inadvertantly revealed their plans for “infinite storage”, a project they call GDrive, and keeping all of your files on their server for you.