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Webster defines security as, "the quality or state of being free from risk of loss and that measures [are] taken to guard against espionage or sabotage, crime, attack or escape." Email users are again getting the electronic age's version of coal in a stocking - holiday-season spam and malware. Microsoft’s Windows Vista platform suffered another release delay, as the computing giant announced yesterday that most versions of the OS won’t be made available until next year due to quality control concerns. VeriSign acquired its second company of the month, buying Massachusetts-based mobile infrastructure firm m-Qube for $250 million in cash. The United Nation's (UN) website was hacked over the weekend with several sections taken down for repairs. California's secretary of state has decertified the voting machines of four companies, saying the security of their systems is "too flawed to be widely used." Christopher Smith, the notorious "pharmacy spam king," has received a 30-year-jail sentence for running an illegal internet store that sold millions of dollars in prescription drugs. A new type of threat has emerged that poses a significant risk to businesses - this threat is real. There are examples of it in the news. There are security experts who are warning against the risk. So why are most companies ignoring it? German security researcher Thomas Dullien (better known as Halvar Flake) has been stopped at the US border and deported after customs officials decided he could not visit the BlackHat security conference currently underway in Las Vegas. Microsoft has announced plans to give its customers greater control over the search information it stores on their online behaviour. The web is not as free as you might think. In some countries, posting critical views online can cost you your freedom. Google has announced plans to change the way it uses cookies. The number of phishing URLs used to spread "crimeware" among consumer PCs rose to an all-time high in May, according to a report from an industry association that works to eliminate identity theft and fraud caused by phishing and email spoofing. Mobile phone viruses are on the rise spreading data seeking spyware, money making Trojans and shutting down phones. At the end of the financial year it is vital to have easy access to your data.. Universities need to wake up to the realities of the web and produce security-conscious IT graduates. Julie Amero, the Connecticut former substitute teacher convicted of allowing students to view pornography on a classroom PC, was granted a new trial today. Just as bacteria evolve around the technological barriers we put in their place, so too do the tactics and strategies employed by computer attackers. When a security measure is put in place, our enemies immediately set out to exploit its weakness. When they are repelled, they adapt their tactics and strategies, regroup and come back yet again. Just when you thought that spilling a hot cup of latte was all you had to worry about while surfing the web at your local Starbucks - or any public place for that matter - think again: Nearby attackers can now exploit the wireless drivers used in many popular laptops to assume control of your machine, and there is little you can do to stop them. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is again warning veterans their identity may be at risk following the theft of an unencrypted laptop from the agency's New York Harbor Healthcare System.