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Hackers compromised Red Hat's Fedora servers, which prompted the open source software company to issue a critical update Friday for its OpenSSH packages. Three hundred companies and government organisations have been attacked by a new Trojan with multiple variants that gets around SSL protections, a researcher with SecureWorks told SCMagazine.com. The cloud will become dangerous, good sites will be used to hide bad data, and rich internet applications will turn on their users. These are some of the predictions from Websense Security Labs, which has compiled a security forecast for 2009. There's no question about it: the malware industry is booming. Every day, computer users are bombarded with news of severe data breaches, the rapid growth of online fraud and identity theft, and spyware that invades privacy and compromises security. The number of reported data breaches has already surpassed last year's total, according to a report from Identity Theft Resource Center. The memory protections in Windows Vista are largely ineffective at preventing browser exploitation. The amount of web-based malware blocked by IT security firm ScanSafe has jumped by 278 per cent in the first six months of this year. A government laptop used by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez may have been breached during a visit to Bejing last December. Attacks targeted towards voice communication channels such as VoIP and mobile phones are quietly increasing, security researchers have warned.

A recessionary funk is in the air, and if experience is any guide, IT, and consequently IT security, will be one of the first places CFOs and CEOs will look to slash budgets.
Security researchers recently found a server being used to harvest private information consisting of stolen data from 40 international businesses, as well as health-related information on patients worldwide. To provide a safer internet browsing experience, recursive services are being provided free of charge. Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report. Sloppy site developers are to blame for a recent rash of SQL web server attacks estimated to have compromised hundreds of thousands of websites, a security firm claimed today.. As the Payment Card Industry's data security regulation begins to bite, Barry Mansfield examines its aims and obligations. A new BotArmy, named "Kraken," reportedly twice as big as Storm, has been identified. As the dust settles from one of the largest data breaches since TJX, few fresh details emerged one day after Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain revealed that intruders stole some 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from its computer systems. 2008 will usher in more security issues whose challenges can only be met by an array of security solutions. Now is the time to start thinking about your 2008 New Year's security resolutions. There has been a sharp hike in the volume of cyber-crime attacks designed to steal personal information, new research reveals. The infamous storm worm trojan, which first hit inboxes in January, is poised to become a for-sale spam botnet system, complete with fast-flux DNS and hosting capabilities.