Symantec has joined the growing ranks of IT security vendors that are offering their pooled information on the latest ITsec threats as a value-added outsourced option for major corporates.

The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.

The July 2009 MessageLabs Intelligence Report concludes that spammers have turned to using online translation services to develop multilanguage spam runs.

The Fifth International Forum on Combating Cybercrime – a two-day security conference – opened in Damascus, Syria, yesterday and, say the organisers, is a great success.

The Computer forensics department at the University of Alabama has tracked down the Zeus Bot virus to a raft of fake internet postcards circulating on the Internet.

One of Russia’s most powerful business lobby groups has told the country’s government that Internet telephony services like Skype are a threat to the country’s businesses and to national security.

Veteran IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab has warned internet users to be aware of rogue or scam software that purports to be an IT security application, but is merely a vehicle to extract revenue – and possibly even card details – from unsuspecting web…

A sophisticated underground economy has grown up to exploit the millions of personal computers that have been infected with rogue software that turns them into ‘zombies’ controlled by botnet masters, says an IT security expert.

A three million pounds-plus fine imposed on three of HSBC’s divisions for failing to adequately protect customer data could easily have been avoided if the banking group has made use of digital data vaulting technology, says Cyber-Ark.

Finjan, the business internet security specialist, claims its gateway security technology can easily counter a zero-day vulnerability of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Flash Player