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Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today. Worldwide spam volumes have surged by 50 percent in the first quarter of 2008 revealed security vendor Proofpoint today, who now predicts enterprises will see inbound spam more than double this year. A dismal earnings forecast this week from intrusion prevention maker Sourcefire underscores some of the challenges facing public IT security companies, a pair of analysts said Friday. Kaspersky’s senior virus analyst has warned of ‘unpleasant news’ from the world of mobile malware in its latest quarterly security trend report. Microsoft is planning to release Service Pack 1 (SP1) for its Vista operating system in the first quarter of 2008, and its beta will be available within a month. Two security firms have revealed that spam attacks have increased in the last quarter. A new phishing scheme leveraging the McDonald's name is part of a trend that plays on the economic downturn. Lenovo is to offer the ability to lock down its ThinkPad laptops remotely by text message.. Key management and cross-application encryption will be the next big thing, according to new research by the Ponemon Institute commissioned by PGP Corporation.

Security vendors highlight growing threat of internet-based malware. Researchers from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) have published a report detailing how they hacked a spamming network to collect data on the economics of the problem. Microsoft has claimed in its fifth Security Intelligence Report that Windows Vista is giving hackers a much harder time. SQL injection and cross-site scripting are most popular attack vectors. New research finds 44 per cent of second-hand devices still contain sensitive
data. IT service management is seen as a necessary evil by board members of half of medium to enterprise sized organisations. Microsoft announced that it would make available three Security Development Lifecycle programs and tools to help the industry improve security and privacy technology. Global fraud losses rise 22 per cent as spectre of information theft rears its ugly head. Software patches offline virtual operating systems without bringing them
online. Enterprise security firm Secure Computing has announced plans to purchase Securify, provider of identity-based network monitoring solutions. Increased international use of the internet has driven the number of domain names registered globally to 138 million, according to a report from VeriSign, the firm that operates the .com and .net domains.