Federal agencies will have until March 31 to have in place a standard secure ID that can be used across agencies, as required by the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12, according to a draft Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo.

The Australian Department of Defence plans to conduct a department-wide review of its personnel’s cybersecurity knowledge and offer targeted training modules to fill in identified knowledge gaps.

The government has missed the deadline on nearly all its commitments to IT reform due to be implemented last month.

Microsoft is to address 12 security issues in its February Patch Tuesday.

A senior malware analyst has warned that the new version of Android Market – an online hub that allows developers to sell Google Android apps to users of Android devices – offers users the ability to install apps directly from a desktop PC browser.

Reports are coming in that Slavik, the author of the infamous Zeus trojan, is now offering to sell the complete source code of the malware for $100,000.

Hotmail has introduced an alias feature which Microsoft said would enable users to manage their online identities.

Criminal syndicates and drug cartels are building large-scale software pirating operations and selling that software – which is likely to contain malware – to fund their operations, warned David Finn, associate general counsel at Microsoft.

Criminal syndicates and drug cartels are building large-scale software pirating operations and selling that software – which is likely to contain malware – to fund their operations, warned David Finn, associate general counsel at Microsoft.

Hackers exploited close to twice as many vulnerabilities as usual in January, half of those being “critical”, according to Fortinet’s monthly threat landscape report.