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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. IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue -- not offer complete security -- and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivised to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas. The number of seemingly legitimate web pages affected by the latest SQL injection attack is growing. A Linux v Microsoft security debate at this year’s RSA Conference ended in a draw despite the two opposing experts failing to agree on a concurrent metrics system. A new BotArmy, named "Kraken," reportedly twice as big as Storm, has been identified. Internet-related criminal activities resulted in nearly US$240 million in reported losses in the US, according to the 2007 Internet Crime Report released by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the FBI. As big business finally gets a hold on security, SMEs relying on off-the-shelf e-commerce tools are easy prey. The latest version of the Norton security suite has officially hit the streets. Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a click-fraud trojan targeted to the online advertising networks of Google, Yahoo and Baidu.com, China's largest independent internet search engine. Banks and credit card firms not doing enough to protect consumers. Researchers have discovered malware which holds mobile phone data to ransom.. Phishers have been unusually slow to capitalise on the lost HM Revenue & Customs data disks.
There are other things more depressing than lacking a date for Valentine's Day. For starters, how about getting stung by a trojan disguised as an e-card celebrating the annual romantic holiday? Researchers have detected active exploits using rogue banner advertisements to target a recently patched vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat. For all the hype about the relative security of the two most popular browsers, is Firefox really any more secure than Internet Explorer? For that matter, is it even possible, as a British company with a “zero-footprint” browser claims, to develop a truly secure browser? ChoicePoint, the data broker hit with the largest fine in Federal Trade Commission (FTC) history, has now settled with 44 states over a 2005 breach that compromised the personal information of 163,000 people. Image spam numbers hit lowest recorded levels in 10 months, according to security experts. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. A 14 year-old schoolboy hacked into a Polish tram system and used a remote control to change the direction of a number of vehicles.. Researchers at Fortinet have discovered what they believe to be the first malicious widget to appear on the popular social networking website Facebook.