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Federal agencies are not doing enough to protect citizens from identity theft, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress. The major data breaches that have received mass media coverage are driving so-called "C-level" executives to become actively involved in their organization's security policies, according to a new report from the (ISC)2. Credit card thieves are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in small retailers' point-of-sale check-out systems, according to a new report. A vendor of anti-spyware and anti-virus software has released a report saying that Windows Vista, the latest version of Microsoft's latest operating system, is more susceptible to malware than the company's Windows 2000. The first quarter of 2008 saw an increased trend for spammers and malware developers to leverage legitimate content sites in order to bypass email filters. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security-sponsored project has not only discovered that the quality of open-source software code has improved significantly over the past two years, it has debunked a widely held assumption that longer function strings within source code are associated with an increased number of code defects. The Storm Worm botnet is just a fraction of its original size, but malware remains on the rise, according to one email security firm. 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. Consumers, regulators, and businesses have no way to reliably assess the incidences and frequency of identity fraud at major financial institutions, a new study concludes. A rise in international cyberspying will pose the most significant threat to the national security of the United States in 2008, according to a report from anti-virus vendor McAfee. A recent study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has found malware has become so prevalent that 25 percent of computers in the United States are now infected. Organisations are frequently disciplining and even terminating employees for breaching enterprise email security policies and leaking sensitive data, according to the results of Proofpoint’s latest quarterly survey. Malicious code attacks through instant messaging services have tripled between March and April. End of year security round up from Cisco highlights seven key issues Security concerns are prohibiting Australians from using mobile devices to pay bills, shop or bank online, the latest Unisys Security Index has found.



A new Galaxy survey commissioned by security vendor MessageLabs has found that half of all IT managers are not entirely happy with their Web security system and believe it could better. The US state of Oregon has become the latest to pass legislation to control identity theft. The days of visiting a trusted website and expecting it to be safe are done and dusted. Analyst firm Gartner has placed McAfee in the leader’s quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms. The suspects who lifted the personal data of 45.7 million customers from TJX's processing systems hatched their elaborate plan some two years ago at a Marshalls outlet in Minnesota, where they used simple technology to tap into the store's wireless connection, The Wall Street Journal reported today.