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'Internetpol' needed or internet businesses may fail. McAfee has announced its 'Initiative to Fight Cybercrime' which is calling for action to deliver more effective investigations and prosecutions of cybercrime. The stakes were high when scores of researchers and investigators met Thursday for the twice-annual International Botnet Task Force meeting. Security professionals weigh in on what may have caused the most recent high-profile personal account breach -- this one involving French President Nicolas Sarkozy. A new program that claims to be an anti-spyware solution for the Mac is likely rogue software, security researchers warned on Friday. Study shows outside hackers responsible for one per cent of attacks. The black-market price for stolen credit and debit card details has dropped to as little as US$1.50, according to a newspaper investigation. Using Flash Player and clickjacking techniques, webcams and microphones can be hijacked, prompting Adobe to issue a workaround as users await a fix. IT managers are facing a tough time ahead as the economic crisis leads to the consolidation of several major banks and their respective IT systems. Spam email messages have fallen by eight per cent thanks to the demise on 20 September of California-based ISP Intercage, according to security vendor MessageLabs. Protecting users from internet-borne threats falls on trusted websites, says Overstock's Sam Peterson. Dan Kaplan reports. One technologist wants the public to understand why releasing exploit code for a dangerous vulnerability is sometimes the right thing to do. Organisations that block access to sites such as Facebook are limiting the use of critical business tools necessary to a Generation Y workforce, argued Symantec executives in Sydney on Tuesday.
A computer holding bank customers' credit card data has been sold on eBay for US$75. A 27-year-old British man has been jailed indefinitely for acting as an online librarian for a child pornography win.
Howard Schmidt takes on the role of first president of the Information
Security Forum. McAfee’s chief security officer Dr Martin Carmichael flew into Sydney this week and SC Magazine had the opportunity to catch up with him to discuss all things security. Roger Thompson, Chief Research Officer at AVG Technologies, has just posted an item about the problems with the St Kilda Football Club website and it seems Google is to blame.

VeriSign today announced a major management shake-up, capped by the resignation of Stratton D. Sclavos, the company's former chairman, president and CEO. A new identity theft bill is set to become US federal law, adding stiffer penalties and stricter definitions for identity and information theft crimes.