The latest monthly malware and vulnerability statistics released by Kaspersky Lab claims to show that the exploitation of vulnerability in Internet Explorer was the most significant cybercrime threat during the month of March.

Detailed figures just released by the Ministry of Defence show that the military arm of the government had a total of 347 data loss incidents in 2009, with 71 further losses of confidential information in January plus February of this year alone.

One of the least-reported areas of IT security in recent times is the topic of firewalls but, according to Gabi Reish, head of network security with Check Point, the technology is now into its fifth generation, largely as a result of the rise of the in…

Brazilian malware writers are making use of a long-available feature within most modern browsers to launch attacks that redirect victims to malicious websites without their knowledge. The feature, known as proxy auto config, is turning up in banking tr…

Games console in the workplace pose an increasingly serious threat to enterprise security, according to new research from Sunbelt Software. The anti-malware vendor said that almost 4 in 10 respondents to the survey had no idea about any of the document…

Federal agencies are lagging behind in the implementation of the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) requirements, according to the US Government Accountability Office.

Web hosting company Network Solutions has deployed a massive fix for a configuration flaw that led to hundreds of WordPress blogs being compromised.

Numbers from IT advocacy group TechServe Alliance show that IT job growth declined month-over-month in March, putting a halt to the uptick the industry has experienced since December of last year.

Infosecurity reviews the week’s security news

EviGator has released TAG Examiner, a tool for examining large quantities of image files to recover metadata.