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Virus activity has increased over 100 percent in the last 24 hours due to the virulence of the Bagle AU worm. An unusually high number of variants have caused a large upturn since the virus was first detected on 28 October.

The ComboDock is the sort of device that no forensic investigator can afford to be without if they intend to produce evidence that will be acceptable in legal proceedings.

Open source software (OSS) is firmly entrenched in the infrastructure of the Internet, and is now making inroads into the security market too. But although the darling of techies everywhere, OSS has its doubters. In particular, many corporate managers have concerns about support, accountability, and longevity. NEC’s Gohringer cuts through the misconceptions that surround biometrics and puts forward the business case for the integration of biometric technologies into a company’s security strategy. Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is becoming an important industry accreditation for professionals working in IT security. But what does it involve and is it worthwhile? Mark Harris, chief information security officer at ASPACE Solutions, chose to do the intensive seven-day crash course and reflects on the experience. VirtualMDA is an email enterprise that seems to offer a hassle-free way for users to earn a dollar, but there is a catch – your PC becomes a conduit for junk email. Mark Sunner reveals the darker side of a spammer’s tool By now, most high-tech conferences have devoted at least one 30-minute session to the topic of Sarbanes-Oxley (aka “Sarbox”). Permeo’s Base5 is a RedHat-based solution that turns a standard server into an SSL VPN. Obviously, this means you need to supply your own server, and you will need to check the hardware support – our first attempt to install the software crashed anaconda (RedHat’s installer) in its usual ugly way. Hackers have targeted the 1.7 million customers of BTOpenworld in a scam that tries to get them to open the Bagel virus. Although aware of the attack, BTOpenworld has so far failed to take action to advise potential victims on how to protect themselves. Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Technical books of more than 350 pages are not meant to be read in one helping, like mystery novels. The conflict being waged in Afghanistan is one of the most technologically advanced battles to which the world has ever been witness. I think I’ve used that phrase in these columns before. The amazing book of Lance Spitzner "Know Your Enemy" seems to have opened the floodgates of honeypot deployment. It may not be illegal. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks just got worse - and easier! DoS is actually a grab bag of a great many techniques (such as worms and SYN flooding), all with the objective of denying legitimate clients access to services running on Internet based servers. Watermarking is playing a more significant role, but is a far cry from the protection most critical data requires, says Barbara Gengler Early public key infrastructure projects failed because they were too complex. But Stephen Wilson argues that PKI is ideal for managing closed communities. Illena Armstrong asks if the big IT vendors can re-engineer themselves for security in light of today’s pressing business needs Illena Armstrong discovers that the use of traditional passwords could be giving many organizations a false sense of security.