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Quiet, targeted and profit-driven. These are the adjectives describing the current attacks ruling the IT threat landscape, according to Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report, released today. Security firms are warning PC users that one way to avoid early activation of the Kama Sutra Worm is to make sure all clocks are set correctly. New figures from the Home Office have claimed identity fraud costs the U.K. more than £1.7 billion a year. Avanton’s ReadyARM is an IDS appliance aimed at SMEs. It is based on open-source IDS and vulnerability-scanning software and has custom wrappers to hold it together, a web GUI and prepackaged reports. A virus in circulation for more than a year and a half was the most intercepted malicious program of December, one security firm said this week. Whatever your network and application security, keyloggers can deal a mortal blow to corporate security. Popular with rootkits and trojans, loggers capture keystrokes, revealing passwords, personal information and entire documents before anything can be encrypted or locked down in any other way. Last month, David Litchfield, managing director of security software company NGS Software, wrote an open letter to Bugtraq criticizing the way Oracle had handled patching a series of flaws in its database products. He urged Oracle's customers to complain to the company demanding "a better security response." The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) has unveiled its final, consensus definition of spyware, which was developed by coalition members including major anti-spyware companies, software developers and public interest groups. It is a constant race to keep up with the virus writers as they push out exploits for newly published vulnerabilities. René Millman looks at the secret of successful patch management Television news anchors became the news in August when they had to apologize on-air for computer problems affecting their broadcast. The world watched as ABC and CNN were struck by the Zotob worm. This rack-mountable multifunction device came with clear, concise documentation in the form of a slim startup guide. We then plugged it in and immediately noticed that the fan was so noisy it would need to be placed in a dedicated server room. This device is designed to provide IPsec protection for site-to-site and remote access virtual private networks with stateful packet inspection firewall capability for gateway security, routing and access control. It supports DES, Triple DES and AES encryption. Safenet claims that up to 1000 VPN tunnels and a maximum of 2,000 simultaneous connections are supported.

Technology can only go so far in imposing policies, and there are times when text-based policies must be used. Legal requirements, health and safety, and personal conduct issues require employees to read and digest information.

Back in 2003 Gartner declared Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) as dead. Whether this is true, it is an increasing reality that intrusion protection or prevention systems are increasingly becoming a part of many company's networks. While IDS may be waning, IPS (Intrusion Protection Systems) are on the up, yet there is still a pervasive feeling that such technology can cause a network to break or malfunction. City of London police are probing claims that call center workers in India were selling the confidential information of British bank customers. The allegations arose from a sting operation by an undercover reporter for the Sun newspaper.

ArcSight's flagship product, the ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager, is a security event management (SEM) tool capable of analyzing large mounts of network data in real time. The IDS model fell down because the flood of unfiltered alerts overwhelmed the resources of security teams, but SEM provides correlation, filtering and analysis to, in theory, allow the few real threats to be picked out of the blizzard of less important alerts and false positives.

Security Event Management (SEM) vendors often talk about scalability when addressing the degree to which their products can accommodate growth in a customer's increasing network and/or security requirements. The scene is set in a dark and gothic basement, somewhere in Russia apparently. Amid the clicking of a keyboard the following chilling statement of intent can be heard; “Let’s see what an application that simultaneously opens up 1000 windows does to a smartphone today, da? Mwahahaha, er, ha!” (Cue bolt of lightning). When F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen comes to town, people listen. David Quainton talks to the malware guru about the future of antivirus

When 3am Labs asked us to review LogMeIn, we were not sure whether it was really appropriate for SC Magazine. The software is primarily a tool for web-based remote access and administration (there is a "network console" version for enterprise administrators, too). But it has a surprisingly broad set of security features, as well as some clever ways to tie down possible vulnerabilities in remote administration.