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With the emergence of new attack techniques and the reinvention of old ones, 2008 has been a year of cybercriminal innovation. AVG announced yesterday that it would be offering a free year of service after its antivirus software got confused and misidentified a key Windows system file as malware. PDF and Flash files will be used by cybercriminals much more in 2009. This year has not been a good one in terms of data breaches – from the loss of child benefit details to the loss of top secret information on known terrorists. Last year for this Group Test, we saw the software version of this product, so this year we were very excited to see it in an appliance version. This year, we took a look in the rearview mirror and observed a lot of convergence, but despite this trend interesting companies still flourish, says Peter Stephenson, technology editor. The total amount of malware removed from Australian PCs grew by over 55 percent in the first half of 2008, Microsoft has reported. Apple on Monday delivered fixes for 25 vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X platform, plus a patch for a Safari bug. At least three critical patches will be released when Microsoft distributes its monthly security update.. Enterprise security firm Mobile Armor has released a list of 10 New Year resolutions for the enterprise data security professional.. TJX on Wednesday reported a 47 percent spike in quarterly profits, aided by a reduction in the reserve that was created to pay for costs associated with last year's reported data breach. Despite the ongoing financial crisis, IT security spending is expected to grow this year, according to two reports from Forrester. Researchers at anti-virus vendor F-Secure have noted a 100-percent increase over last year in the amount of malware detected during 2007. Attempted cyberattacks on health care organisations have increased 85 percent in the past year, according to SecureWorks, a software-as-a-service vendor. Bit9 research reports 40 known severe vulnerabilities this year for the popular browser. Westpac has extended a deal to give its online banking customers 12 months' free access to PC Tools’ Internet Security suite for a second year.
Victims of phishing scams in the United States lost US$3.2 billion during a 12-month period ending in August, and the number of people on the receiving end of phishing emails has more than doubled over the past three years, according to a report from Gartner. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer has revealed that it has suffered a data breach with the personal details of thousands of employees stolen. Microsoft has closed out the year with a mammoth security update -- fixing 28 vulnerabilities, many of them Office and web flaws. Symantec’s chairman and CEO John W. Thompson will retire as CEO at the end of the fiscal year.