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The volume of spam messages per consumer is set to decrease 13 percent every year through 2010, as ISPs tackle the spam issue through improved filtering technology, industry analysts have predicted. Nearly 50 security practitioners met in May in Hilton Head Island, S.C. for another successful SC Forum event — the first of two forums this year. The former head of the UK’s Computer Crime Unit tells Ron Condon why it’s time someone helped smaller companies protect themselves The break-neck speed and frequency with which corporate data breaches are happening these days has most enterprise executives racing to avoid becoming the next headline. As part of the recent Infosecurity Europe 2006 Conference in London, a Hackers’ Panel included the likes of Gary McKinnon — also known as Solo, who could be extradited from the U.K. to the U.S. for allegedly hacking into various military and NASA systems. A less covered session, however, hit upon a problem that has existed for ages but that seems to still get short shrift in enterprises today: insider threats. Security experts have pleaded with the U.K. Government to tackle the problem of hacking and zombie networks by targeting ISPs who let malware through their networks and onto end users' computers. A vulnerability researcher has attacked Oracle for failing to tackle a number of flaws in its software products. Microsoft and the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) have joined forces to help community banks improve their information security practices. The fast-growing popularity of peer-to-peer communication, and particularly IM, is bringing an equal expansion of risk. Janine Milne reports Legislation before the U.K. Parliament to introduce compulsory ID cards will not solve the fast rising problem of identity theft, fraud prevention experts warned today. New figures from the Home Office have claimed identity fraud costs the U.K. more than £1.7 billion a year. Confidence in internet banking among U.K. consumers is "fragile," with half of active internet users telling the Financial Service Authority (FSA) that they were "extremely" or "very" concerned about fraud risk when making transactions. 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. China has formerly agreed to tackle unsolicited mail by signing up to the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration. Over the last year, malware creation and distribution has been increasingly taken over by gangs of organized cyber criminals, undertaking highly targeted attacks for financial gain, new research has revealed. The RSA Conference will celebrate its 15th anniversary this year. How has it evolved to keep up with the times? The U.K. High Court has ordered ten internet service providers to hand over the customer details of 150 individuals accused of illegally sharing software. More than 2.4 million emails containing the trojan-downloader Win32.small.cfg were sent to U.K. businesses late Sunday night before the anti-virus community could react, an IT security firm warned today. The growing threat from hackers, new regulations, reputation issues and the growing importance of direct channel self-service banking are pushing IT security to the very top of the corporate agenda for Western European financial institutions, new research has revealed.