Microsoft this week, on what has become known as “Patch Tuesday” (the second Tuesday of every month), has issued seven security updates for the Windows operating system, classifying two of them as critical updates.

CityWatcher.com is requiring that their employees have RFIDs injected into their arms in order to access CityWatcher’s data centers. While the CityWatcher says the RFID implant is not a condition of employment, it is a condition of accessing CityWatcher.com’s datacenter.

The most recent outbreak of violence connected to the Danish publication of what Muslims consider to be a blasphemus cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed was provoked by rumours spread by SMS text messages.

Microsoft has said this week that they are receiving reports of a newly-discovered vulnerability in some versions of Internet Explorer. According to Microsoft, the vulnerability can be exploited in one of four different ways, involving any one of WMF images, email attachments, link poisoning, or getting a user to view an email message in the Outlook Express preview pane.

The TeleSpy motion detector phone is like something out of James Bond, only in your home! Haven’t you always wanted a motion detecting telephone?

People using Yahoo Messenger are receiving Yahoo instant message phishes which are realistic enough to reel in their victims. The phishy Yahoo messenger messages offer up a link to what appears to be a Yahoo Photos website, saying “click on this website.”

“Bot Herder” Jeanson James Ancheta, the BotNet operator taken down by the Feds, told colleagues of operating the botnet of more than 400,000 infected PCs, “It’s immoral, but the money makes it right.”

The new Nyxem-D worm making the rounds has been dubbed the “Kama Sutra worm”, because it arrives in an email offering graphic sex images and videos. Also called Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi, W32.Blackmal.E@mm worm, or W32/Nyxem-D, the email has such enticing subjects as “Kama Sutra pics!”, “Hot Movies”, “give me a kiss”, Miss Lebanon 2006″, “Part 1 of 6 Video clip”, “The Best Videoclip Ever”, “Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg”, “Fw: SeX.mpg”, “Fwd: Crazy illegal Sex!”, and “School girl fantasies gone bad.”

Microsoft has released the WMF patch for the Windows Metafile WMF security issue nearly a week early. And you should get the WMF patch right now!

The recently discovered Windows Metafile (WMF stands for “Windows Meta File”) vulnerability gave rise to not just one 0-day exploit, but several exploits. Also known as a “zero-day exploit”, a 0day exploit is an exploit which is already available on the same day, or even before, the vulnerability itself is announced.

Sony BMG has settled the first of the lawsuits brought against them over the First4Internet XCP rootkit software and the MediaMax software.

Following the Sony rootkit fiasco, some artists, such as My Morning Jacket, are taking matters into their own hands.

Microsoft this week issued a critical and cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (IE). They recommend that you apply the security update immediately, and so do I.

Sony BMG has just announced that there is a security flaw in the MediaMax software shipped on 5.7 million of their CDs. MediaMax developer SunnComm Technologies Inc. has developed a patch, and Sony BMG urges that you install it.

Sony BMG has issued a statement recalling their CDs containing the XCP rootkit software, and offering to exchange any still out there for CDs free of First4Internet’s XCP.