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It’s 4am, cold, dark and I’m running as fast as I can, wearing only a dressing gown. What’s going on? And what has this to do with IT security? On the heels of last week's discovery of the first two worms designed to infect Mac OS X platforms, a new vulnerability surfaced today. A scammer who admitted being a thief is posing as a fund manager for a major financial institution to dupe unsuspecting email recipients out of money. “We’ve been throwing money at security for 20 years and are no better off now than we were then,” says Eddie Bleasdale. He tells Ron Condon why he is so angry One of the emerging buzzwords of 2005 is "application security" but many managers still don’t have a clear picture of what the term means. Security vendors are not helping as they all clamor for a piece of this emerging budget line-item with very diverse offerings. The number of phishing attacks have soared to a new high in the last year, according to a new report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Send your comments, praise or criticisms to scfeedbackus@haymarketmedia.com. We reserve the right to edit letters. Microsoft has filed 10 lawsuits against companies for allegedly pirating software and seven court actions against individuals for allegedly selling not-for-resale software to unsuspecting purchasers. As usual, the SC Magazine readership survey has proven to be a most revealing exercise. Now in its fourth year, the end-of-year survey gives an insight into the mood and daily lives of our readers. Our fourth annual survey of our readers’ hopes, fears and exasperations provides a fascinating insight into the industry. Ron Condon reports An advocacy group has asked the Italian government to investigate whether Sony BMG Entertainment broke any of the country’s laws when it included what has been called a form of spyware on some of its CD-Roms. A media player unknowingly installed by Sony CD-Rom users could compromise personal and corporate information, a leading software company has warned. The Mechanics Bank, the largest independent community bank in the San Francisco Bay Area, has undertaken an infrastructure upgrade that aims to boost the security of its Citrix Presentation Server-based application environment in the face of a growing threat from viruses and hackers. As a security professional, I spend time researching the latest issues, threats and hacking techniques. For pleasure, however, I read mostly military history – which, in turn, impacts my view of information security. A vulnerability researcher has attacked Oracle for failing to tackle a number of flaws in its software products.

StorageSafe is another offering in the removable-device security space. There are many products rubbing shoulders in this area, and the basics are pretty well covered. StorageSafe is not aimed at high-end environments, with key distribution and management features, but at quick and basic everyday data protection, which it does well.

T-Mobile USA says it has made security a top priority after it emerged that a hacker had broken into the company's internal systems and viewed customer details. A Japanese man received a 22-month prison sentence after he created a fake website of Yahoo Japan in order to steal personal information from users of that portal. The sentence was suspended for four years.