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.

Check out BrookCourt’s whitepaper on how the rise of identity and access management has revolutionised how the enterprise defines a key domain of IT risk control.

Interoute, the internet backbone carrier, has released a free ‘internet barometer’ desktop application that displays the state of the global internet, as well as potential threats to the net’s IP-based infrastructure.

Spammers are using the death of music legend Michael Jackson to harvest unsuspecting computer users’ email addresses for future spam campaigns.

A European-based gang behind sophisticated and targeted phishing attacks on small and medium enterprises has returned after a five-month break, says security firm iDefense.

Google have launched Anti-Malvertising.com to assist its advertisers in spotting potential providers of malicious advertisements. Finjan, specialising in secure web gateway products and unified web security for the enterprise market,have welcomed this …

The malware that has been infecting automated teller machines in eastern Europe could be about to spread to other places in the world, according to the company that uncovered the fraud. Experts at SpiderLab, the research arm of security firm Trustwave,…

The information commissioner has ordered the opening of confidential files on a wide range of high-risk IT projects, including the ID cards scheme, joined up police intelligence systems and the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

Parcelforce customers’ names addresses and postcodes were available online after a system related to the company’s mail tracker service failed.