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The first publicly released vulnerability in Windows Vista was reported recently. You're probably not running Vista yet, but should you be concerned? Read the First Vista Vulnerability section to find out.
The Mozilla Foundation was also busy with vulnerabilities, patching 9 of them. Find out which apply to you in the Firefox Updates section.

Watch out for e-mails that contain Happy New Year greeting cards. They may contain an unpleasant surprise, as you'll read in the Trojan New Year section.
Phishers seem to be picking on SiteKey, a Bank of America feature designed to fight phishing. See an example in this week's Top Phish.
The Defense Department has been the target of some interesting attacks and is devising defenses against them. Read more about these events in the Spear Phishing section.
Spam has tailed off in the last few days, but why? Read two theories in the Spam Takes A (Forced?) Vacation section.
An honorable-sounding domain name has been taken by a shady-looking outfit. Get the story in the antispyware.com section.
A report says what we all knew subjectively: that spam soared in 2006. Read this and other news in the Security Watch Story Feed.

A "proof of concept" program for an exploit for Microsoft's recently released Windows Vista operating system was released on a Russian hacker site recently.
The alert accompanying the code speculated that some old debug code was left in the released Windows code which is all the more remarkable since the code appears to be quite old.