PBS.org hacked, serving malware cocktail - Some sections of the popular PBS.org Web site have been hijacked by hackers serving up a cocktail of dangerous exploits.

'Bahama' botnet linked to click-fraud surge - Researchers at Click Forensics have stumbled upon a click-fraud botnet using a series of sophisticated redirection tricks to cheat search engine filters.

Opera browser (finally) gets an auto-updater - The Opera Web browser has undergone a minor security makeover with one significant improvement — the ability to update itself when patches are released.
The latest browser update will, by default, notify the user about available updates in very much the same way Mozilla Firefox handles automatic patching.

From the changelog:
Users can specify that snapshot build releases [...]

Apple plugs 15 Java for Mac security holes - Apple today released a new version of Java for Mac to plug a total of 15 documented security vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution attacks via rigged Web pages.

Patch Tuesday heads-up: Five 'critical' bulletins on tap - Microsoft's September batch of security updates will include fixes for a multiple "critical" vulnerabilities affecting the Windows operating system.

Scareware goes Green - Malicious pseudo-environmentalists have come up with a new social engineering tactic aiming to improve the profit margins of their fake antivirus software releases - by promising to donate $2 from every purchase for saving the Amazonian green forests.
The new scareware template branded as “Green-AV Premier Edition 3.0” is pitched as the “World’s First Antivirus Which [...]

Microsoft FTP in IIS vulnerability now under attack - Less than a week after the publication of exploit code for a critical vulnerability in the FTP Service in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), attackers are now launching in-the-wild attacks against Windows users.