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Expect more malware, unwelcome email, and social engineering threats this season. Security problems created by employees are far more serious than the dangers posed by external hackers and criminals, new research reports.. AirDefense Enterprise provides protection against wireless threats, policy compliance and performance monitoring, troubleshooting and location tracking in an appliance that is scalable for most size organisations. Web 2.0 is cool, it may even be useful, but it is also causing a headache for those paid to worry about IT security Free anti-virus provider AVG Technologies claims that Microsoft is ‘clearly’ following its lead in the security market but that it will face many challenges pursuing a free model, including a severe reseller backlash.
Security vendors have warned of an increase in cybercrime during the holiday season. The percentage of new web sites harbouring malware and other potentially unwanted programs has increased by almost 50 per cent this month, according to the latest figures from security firm MessageLabs released today. Identity theft has become a multi-billion dollar issue that continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multi-million dollar business, says Deloitte's Mark Steinhoff. A combination of the consolidating financial services space and fear over the stock market plunge has prompted malware writers to shift their tactics. A new program that claims to be an anti-spyware solution for the Mac is likely rogue software, security researchers warned on Friday. The hacking community is outpacing the security industry, and different sectors of the IT community need to work together more closely to narrow the gap. The Blue Coat Systems CEO gazed into the dotcom abyss and survived. He thinks he has the measure of the downturn. Paul Fisher reports The row between PC Tools and Microsoft over Windows Vista security escalated today with PC Tools attacking the effectiveness of Vista’s User Access Control (UAC) tool. With the growth of malicious programs currently outpacing that of legitimate applications, and traditional countermeasures proving inadequate, consumers and security vendors may need to join forces to ward off threats. Security guru Bruce Schneider asked Infosec delegates to consider the psychology of security threats and their decision-making process.



The notorious Pushdo botnet has topped Fortinet’s top ten most reported threats list for March, claiming 13.5 percent of all malware activity for the month. Guard the greatest vulnerability point - gaps in data security - to avoid threats, says Raphael Leiteritz Symantec warned this weekend of a new worm taking advantage of a Microsoft bug, prompting the security company to raise its ThreatCon level. Key management and cross-application encryption will be the next big thing, according to new research by the Ponemon Institute commissioned by PGP Corporation.

The U.S. Department of Defense has banned USB drives and other removable media after a worm hit military networks.