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Federal and state investigators have sealed the envelope on a major California-based spam operation that allegedly violated federal law when it delivered nearly two million messages to unsuspecting PC users. The former chief executive of anti-virus software vendor CA was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison this week for his role in an accounting scandal at the company. How can you be sure your security works unless someone tried to crack it - and failed? Rob Buckley delves into the world of penetration testing. Hacker activity across the globe, plus a round-up of security-related news. Hacker activity across the globe, plus a round-up of security-related news. The U.S. State Department said Tuesday that it is investigating "anomalies" in its unclassified computer system, according to reports by major wire services. An Israeli couple that created a trojan that helped Israeli companies spy on each other were sentenced to prison today, several media outlets reported. A federal judge is weighing the merits of a lawsuit filed by a Washington D.C. law and lobbying firm that claims IBM and an unidentified employee tried to hack into its email server. Physical keyloggers top the list of security nightmares for most in the profession. While full-blown remote access trojans are worse, they are also fairly easy to identify and block, both at installation and in use, but physical keyloggers are much harder to identify. The former head of the UK’s Computer Crime Unit tells Ron Condon why it’s time someone helped smaller companies protect themselves A married couple accused of developing trojan to spy on top Israeli companies have been arrested by police in that country. Two Bulgarian men were arrested on Saturday for their part in what police have called Europe's largest internet piracy ring. A hacker has been jailed for almost five years for creating a zombie network of hundreds of thousands of computers. A U.S. man has pleaded guilty of creating a zombie network of 50,000 computers to launch a devastating attack against a Seattle hospital. Up to 145 of the 150 individuals identified following a recent U.K. court order for illegally sharing software over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks have been targeted in an anti-piracy initiative launched today by the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST). Two Israeli individuals alleged to have developed an industrial espionage trojan that helped companies spy on their competitors were indicted this weekend in the Tel Aviv District Court for a series of computer crimes. The world's first professional institute for information security practitioners received its offical launch yesterday (Monday 27 Jan.) with support coming from both UK industry and government. A leading privacy organization took lawyers to task over the use of data collected by fraudulent means. Microsoft today announced the launch of a U.K.-based scheme designed to combat software piracy. The firm said its "Keep IT Real" initiative will form the central plank in a three-year program, also announced today, that aims to reduce the U.K. piracy level for Microsoft Windows by 5 percent. A 29-year-old Connecticut hacker was jailed for two years for selling the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system.