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With so much money being moved online these days, cyber criminals are getting greedy - and smarter. Mark Mayne asks the experts for advice. Return on investment. How many times have you heard or used that phrase in your career? If the answer is never, it's a surprise, but not a total surprise. Measuring the return on investment on IT procurement has not always been the major driving factor – too often, technical specs and whizzy feature lists have clouded purchasing decisions. Over the past few months, birdflu has progressively crept closer to the U.K. What’s this got to do with security you might ask? The uproar over foreign control over American interests was blamed for the break-up of one nearly successful IT security merger. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., which is based in Israel, and Maryland-based Sourcefire broke off a $225 million merger that came under intense scrutiny by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). “Basically we agreed to withdraw applications based on a couple of things,” said Michelle Perry, chief marketing officer for Sourcefire. “First the complexities of the overall CFIUS process, the lengthy ongoing delays and the current climate for international acquisitions. A team of Gartner analysts predicted this week that Microsoft will not meet its current release schedule for the upcoming Vista operating system. SC Magazine is providing an exclusive look at abridged versions of various chapters included in the just-released Larstan’s "The Black Book on Government Security," as part of an agreement with Larstan Publishing. This month’s excerpt will be available in an extended form on http://www.scmagazine.com. 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. Biometrics researchers at the University of Buffalo have paved the way to make fingerprint authentication more reliable, even with incomplete prints. Forty million credit cards were exposed to potential fraud in a security breach at a payment-card processor. Hong Kong is to implement tough anti-spam laws to combat companies that send unsolicited emails. Virus-infected email rose almost four-fold in May as the Sober virus took hold. An International Trade Commission (ITC) judge ruled in favor of Trend Micro in a patent infringement suit against security appliance maker Fortinet. Political hacktivism in the Far East has risen sharply in the past month following a sovereignty dispute between Japan and Korea. 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? One day, you are the IT security pro for a tidy, small company with about 700 PCs on your mind. The next day, more than one thousand additional unique users plug into your system – each with the average 18-to-22-year-old’s collection of spyware and viruses stored on a range of PCs. Cyberguard’s WebWasher uses twin Intel Xeon 3.06GHz processors with 1GB RAM to provide anti-spam and content filtering options in a 1U height chassis. The system has only one power supply, but two Gigabit Ethernet connections. Extensive documentation is provided in PDF format. MSN instant messenger users are being warned of a new virus posing as an unreleased beta. When bad things happen to good networks — and no enterprise is completely immune from attacks on its IT infrastructure anymore — how the good guys fight back can make or break the company’s ability to survive the threat. Using the information supplied through your IDS and IPS in the right way could dramatically improve your incident response plans, discovers Jim Carr Small companies of less than ten users have been experiencing spam attacks of more than one and a half million mails a day.