Adobe has issued security patches for 6 critical flaws within its Acrobat and Reader applications, with 2 being zero-day vulnerabilities that affected its three-dimensional rendering technology detected during December 2011, published eweek.com dated January 10, 2012.

Spam mails apparently circulating across LinkedIn the business-related website for social networking inform recipients of somebody who has written to them, but actually conceal a sinister scheme for promoting a pharmaceutical website, which sells shady or illegitimate items, published softpedia.com dated January 12, 2012.

The ThreatSeeker Network of Websense recently spotted one spam campaign, which relies on QR Codes described as a barcode's 2D variant. The company, which used a QR Reader to scrutinize the QR Code, found that the scanning resulted in a pharma-oriented spam URL inside its web-browser.

A fraudulent, phishing e-mail posing as a message from IRS, the U.S. tax agency, is presently circulating online as it targets unwitting people paying taxes across Northampton Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (USA), published Levittown Patch dated January 10, 2012.