Worlwide IT spending could fall 6% to US$3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Connecticut-based IT research and advisory company Gartner.

The state of Colorado has updated a law designed to protect children on the internet from sending of sexually explicit messages, known as ‘sexting’, to include cell phones too.

The team behind the Waledec botnet mounted a new malware campaign over the July 4 weekend that has infected thousands of PCs.

UK telecoms giant BT has secured a prestigious deal to provide officers and staff at London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) with new identity and access management services

Data leakage – one of the IT security hot topics of the moment – is on the agenda of a joint Cyber-Ark/Websense webinar being broadcast live at 3pm today, and available via the Infosecurity web site on a recorded basis after that time.

The Argentinian woman at the centre of the Mark Sanford scandal has said that her Hotmail account was hacked.

The Pirate Bay – arguably one of the highest profile file-sharing indexing portals in the world – has hit the headlines with plans to launch a video streaming/sharing website ostensibly similar to Russian sites such as Movieberry.com

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) wants more time to consider Oracle’s $7.4bn Sun deal before giving its approval.

Max Butler – aka Max Vision and Iceman – has pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in connection with the theft of almost two million credit and debit card details, as well as an astonishing $86 million of allegedly fraudulent purchases.

Danny Bradbury explores some of the more interesting stories in the security field from the last week.