The Department of Defense (DoD) is working with the private sector to develop an automated network intrusion detection and prevention system for the defense industry, a Pentagon official told Congress last week.

The MyTob virus, which appeared in 2005 and was the first worm to combine features of a botnet and a mass-mailer, is the most significant virus to emerge over the last 40 years, according to Guillaume Lovet, senior manager of Fortinet’s Threat Response…

Customers of RSA’s SecurID two-factor authentication product, which was the target of a recent security breach, are concerned that the seed record database might have been compromised, said Andrew Kemshall, co-founder of SecurEnvoy and former RSA Euro…

Arbor Networks claims to have discovered one of the first botnets with its command-and-control (C&C) servers located in the US. Dr Jose Nazario, the firm’s senior security researcher, says that the Skunx botnet is unusual in not being active in the wild.

Newswires are reporting that the volume of spam – leading to infected and scamware websites – has gone through the roof this week, but M86 Security says that it has seen a spam campaign that imitates a Twitter notification.

A road sign used by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) was apparently accessed by an unknown, unauthorized individual who changed the sign to warn of “ZOMBIES AHEAD”.

Research just published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) claims to show that 40% of people who have WiFi at home do not understand how to change the security settings on their networks.

Research in Motion (RIM) is advising Blackberry smartphone users to disable Javascript to protect against a security vulnerability in its web browser.

As applications for tickets for the London 2012 Olympic Games opened, some Visa card users were unable to register after a payment system glitch on the ticket website.

The use of cloud-based technology is one way to provide security for personal mobile devices used within enterprise networks, according to Phil Hochmuth, program manager at IDC’s security products research group.