Takedowns, Tools, Threats, and Tsk, Tsk! We review the week’s information security news.

The increasing blurring of network perimeters has accelerated as a direct result of the introduction of cloud computing to the corporate IT mix, but can your IT security handle the challenge?

The Muscat chapter of the Information Systems Audit, Control Association (ISACA) held an education seminar on information security earlier this month at the College of Banking and Financial Studies in Oman.

Popular websites have been made to serve up malware via malicious advertising delivered by advertising banner services.

DeviceLock, the endpoint security specialist, has announced that the Gazpromneft-Khantos branch of Gazprom Neft, the high-profile Russian oil company, has selected its software for endpoint security.

MI5 has hired a batch of Asian teenage computer hackers to help fight cyberterrorism in China, Russia and Pakistan.

Websense Security Labs has found a spam operation targeting players of the old game favourite, Monopoly, via social networking methods.

The New York Times has admitted it has been the victim of a complex scam, in which a group of hackers purchased ad space on the famous publisher’s website, then posed as internet telephony company Vonage, to infect users with malware.

Interpol, the international police agency, has announced that the EDAPS consortium has been chosen to design and produce the secure electronic passport.

After beta testing the service amongst a select number of its users since the start of the year, Paypal has rolled out a text message security check system for its electronic cash and payment service.