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Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) have discovered a utility that served as the foundation for a series of attacks that compromised thousands of websites and infected millions of users' PCs over the past several months. One spam related web page is appearing approximately every three seconds on the Internet according to Sophos’s latest quarterly spam report. RSA's chief technology officer thinks security should be left to experts. He tells Paul Fisher why he's no fan of employee awareness training. 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. Protecting information is the frontline for security professionals today according to John W Thompson, chairman of the board and CEO at Symantec. UK's Information Commissioner's Office has some strong advice for firms making data breaches Joint Committee on Human Rights criticises "lax standards" Too often, network security relies on placing firewalls in front of public network access points and calling it a day. The assumptions are 1) being on a private network is synonymous with being on campus 2) campus users are implicitly trustworthy and 3) external threats are mitigated by the perimeter firewall. A recent survey of 100 IT managers and CIOs from the financial services, health care, retail, manufacturing and government business sectors shows that despite a torrent of bad press on data-security breaches involving FTP (file-transfer protocol), its use is prevalent and growing. The new year is supposed to signal a fresh start for us all, but web threats will continue to reign in 2008, wreaking havoc just as they did this year Risk issues around corporate email monitoring have received a lot of attention in recent years, but as blogging continues to gain in corporate adoption, more risk implications may arise. While executives and IT teams have long recognized the importance of having policies in place to manage external forms of communication like email they are just beginning to realize the importance of applying the same level of scrutiny to their internal and external corporate blogs. Symantec today released its top ten security trends for 2007 listing data leakage, Windows Vista, and spam as the top three dominant security issues. Betfair's global head of security seems to have it all: bosses who listen, resources most of us can only dream of, and youth. Whitepages online and Bigpond have been forced to remove banner ads purporting to be from Skyauction.com after a security professional discovered hackers had embedded malware on the ads which redirected users to unsolicited websites. New privacy laws have spread across the US and could be enforced in Australia The Swiss national elections on 21 October will mark a world first for Geneva as the canton employs quantum cryptography to protect the dedicated line used for counting ballots. Time Magazine recently bestowed its prestigious "Person of the Year" honour on "You," recognising the growing social importance of community and collaboration on the web. Faced with ever more data to be kept, tougher regulations and high-profile security breaches, it's time to rethink storage. Millions of computers with registered copies of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) are at risk to a variety of attacks via a vulnerability in AIM 6.1, AIM beta 6.2, AIM Pro and AIM Lite, according to researchers at Core Security. The 'Italian Job' attack was the first large scale use of a Web-based attack, and it was duplicated only a few days later.