Adobe warns over bogus Flash Player installers
Hackers are trying to dupe people into downloading malicious software labeled as Adobe Systems' Flash Player, prompting a warning from the company. Adobe is advising users to ignore links on social-networking sites that lead to other Web sites purportedly hosting Flash Player, as those sites often have malicious software. IDG News Service, 08/05/2008.
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Four new patches from Gentoo:

Wireshark (denial of service)

Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, et al (multiple flaws)

Net-SNMP (multiple flaws)

xine-lib (buffer overflows, code execution)
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Two new updates from rPath:

Gaim (multiple flaws)

cups (integer overflow, code execution)
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Today's malware news

419 Mail Targets Musicians
There are plenty of musicians promoting their music on their websites, blogs, fan sites and forums - which presents scammers with a huge selection of targets to choose from. Be on your guard... The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog, 08/06/2008.
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From the interesting reading department:

Microsoft to give vendors an early peek at patches
Microsoft plans to give security vendors a head start in what has become a monthly race against the hackers. Starting in October, the company will provide security vendors with early access to technical details of its monthly security patches before the software updates are actually released. IDG News Service, 08/05/2008.

Cisco routers again take hacker spotlight
The Cisco hacking scene has been pretty quiet for the past three years, but at this week's Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, there's going to be a little noise. IDG News Service, 08/05/2008.

What you don't know about security can hurt you
I've just received an early release of a security survey conducted by the RSA Conference where security professionals were polled about their attitudes and experiences around information security. There were two findings that caught my attention. Network World, 08/05/2008.

Snooping into a co-worker's e-mail? You could be arrested
Ever pass by a co-worker's unattended computer and consider taking a peek at her e-mails? Or have you ever thought it would be a funny prank to figure out your cube mate's e-mail password and break into his work account to mess with him? Computerworld, 08/03/2008.

Jason Meserve is multimedia editor at Network World.