At the BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 29 July 2009, one conference session addressed the changing nature of the information security trade press. A panel of experienced journalists answered questions on the relationship between trade and mainstream …

Research just released by MX Logic suggests that spam as a percentage of overall email has reached its highest point ever, currently accounting for 94.6% of all email.

Should vendors include programme code from third parties, is the question experts are asking, now that Adobe has acknowledged that it used Microsoft’s allegedly flawed development code in its products.

Access assurance may be a complex area, but Stuart Hodkinson, UK general manager with Courion Corporation – along with Fran Howarth, a principal analyst with Quocirca – had more than a few answers in an educational and informative webinar this week.

Symantec has joined the growing ranks of IT security vendors that are offering their pooled information on the latest ITsec threats as a value-added outsourced option for major corporates.

The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.

The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.

The Fifth International Forum on Combating Cybercrime – a two-day security conference – opened in Damascus, Syria, yesterday and, say the organisers, is a great success.

The Computer forensics department at the University of Alabama has tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circulating on the Internet.

One of Russia’s most powerful business lobby groups has told the country’s government that Internet telephony services like Skype are a threat to the country’s businesses and to national security.