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The World Cup continues to generate opportunities for malware creators to spread their work, experts warned yesterday. We've all heard about the many private companies whose lackadaisical approach to security ended in the theft of customers' critical data. But it has been rare to hear about compromises to government agencies' IT security mechanisms, which ended in a citizen's identity being compromised. Another Internet Explorer (IE) flaw has been found, one that allows phishers and other malicious users to spoof an address bar when creating a malicious site. The number of web-based child abuse images hosted from U.K. servers has plummeted from 18 percent of all child abuse images found on the internet in 1997 to just 0.4 percent today, according to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) 2005 Annual Report. In the face of growing threats to its cyber assets, America requires a cohesive and comprehensive plan to protect its vital and most sensitive data. Here, one of the leading decision makers in the federal government IT arena coveys overarching priorities for securing the country's cyberspace. Government fears over national security have slowed the completion of Check Point Software Technologies’ $225 million acquisition of Sourcefire. Internet users were subjected to "vicious and varied" virus attacks in January, including a multi-wave attack of seven viral mutants and several devastating zero-day assaults, a newly published threat monitoring report has revealed. Organisations that ignore their responsibilities to manage email traffic securely face not only possible legal action, but the loss of a highly valuable asset. James Middleton reports Security teams from anti-spyware vendor Sunbelt Software have discovered a website application instructing hackers on how to build trojans designed to steal personal information. Microsoft has downplayed additional memory corruption vulnerabilities in its Windows metafile image processing. More and more proprietary security tools use some open-source code. What are the advantages for companies? While home computer use for fun, games and emailing friends is common among children, it also offers kids more opportunity to engage in risky internet activities, recent research has warned.

Configuring the security settings on Windows servers, desktops and notebooks is an overly complex chore. Ensuring that the users do not reset any of the settings just adds to the headache. Policy Commander automates this task using predetermined policies.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away, there were only a few computer viruses. Little more than a curiosity to most, they were relatively rare, slow spreading and in general, more of a mythological threat than a real one. The initial anti-virus products that were created to deal with these were perfectly adequate; updated once a month or so, the customers could be fairly sure that they would be protected. Fast-forward to today’s interconnected and always-on world, and the scale of the problem is orders of magnitude above where it was back in those early days. Spammers are cashing in on media coverage of the Michael Jackson trial with a mail claiming the singer has attempted suicide. Pen testing and vulnerability assessments are essentials. But how often and when these checks are made varies from one company to the next, as Marcia Savage found out The recent sharp rise in spam is being attributed to spammers being more selective in harvesting email addresses by avoiding anti-spam and anti-virus companies. Scientists have been studying the spread of biological disease for over a hundred years. The aim is to predict and thus avoid damaging epidemics, thus the name “epidemiology.” In recent years, some researchers have started applying the tools of epidemiology to help understand another form of common disease: computer viruses and worms.