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A new botnet which specialises in sending out phishing spam has prompted security experts to call for enterprises to review their security protection. Global fraud losses rise 22 per cent as spectre of information theft rears its ugly head. Security experts worry that an open-source Flash animation toolkit is being widely misused to create malicious banner advertisements. Happy birthday, spam. Saturday marked 30 years to the day when the first spam email was delivered. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. As security becomes a board-level concern, those in charge of it can no longer hide behind the doors of the IT department. Return on investment. How many times have you heard or used that phrase in your career? If the answer is never, it's a surprise, but not a total surprise. Measuring the return on investment on IT procurement has not always been the major driving factor – too often, technical specs and whizzy feature lists have clouded purchasing decisions. Google’s email policy and rapid growth is making it the security risk of the century, an expert is warning. Predictions, like fog, are hard to get your arms around, but here is one that will prove more than just a mere exercise in prophesizing: The next wave of security threats will be targeted attacks aimed at specific organizations or individuals within enterprises. This is not actually an SSL VPN, but a network security platform (IP300) on which you can then run other services – like an SSL VPN. 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. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was one of eight federal agencies that scored an F on the most recent Federal Computer Security report card. That's scary and funny all at once. Observation and monitoring of computer intruders have long been performed in a haphazard fashion, if at all. What does the future hold for secure virtual private networks? Illena Armstrong gazes into her crystal ball to look for the answer. The next 12 months could be a crunch time for infosecurity. So Illena Armstrong asked some experts how the cookie might crumble If security is seen to enhance business goals Illena Armstrong finds that selling it to the boardroom becomes a much easier task. These days I spend my time breaking into networks and web servers for a living. With the growth of Instant Messaging and peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies, businesses are increasingly facing security and management challenges.