An onslaught of spammy holiday cards ushered out a 2010 that saw spam, for the first time ever, in decline. The DoD warned about foreign governments stealing military technology, while researchers warned that application sandboxes might not be so safe to play in, after all. Microsoft warned Windows users about another potential overflow vulnerability this week when it issued an advisory on Tuesday about a hole in the operating system s Graphics Rendering Engine. Google researcher Michal Zalewski detailed a multitude of holes in several well-known browsers.
Source: https://threatpost.com/week-security-year-end-e-card-drama-foreign-spies-and-sandboxes-not-so-safe-after-all-010711/74827/