Facebook has signed McAfee as a supplier to help protect its user base. The two companies have worked on a custom scanning and repair tool, along with education materials that will target the social networking giant’s 350 million users.

Software as a service company ScanSafe has found a 55% increase in illegal download attempts over corporate networks.

In a jaw-dropping piece of research, a trio of researchers have published a paper explaining how the A5/3 encryption system – which is being phased in on many 3G cellular networks around the world – can be cracked in less than two hours.

The Governor of Maryland set out an aggressive campaign to position the state as a national hub for cybersecurity this week, launching a report cataloging Maryland’s current efforts in the cybersecurity and electronic intelligence space.

Suffolk County National Bank received a nasty Christmas present on December 24th after discovering a hack that saw over 8,000 customers’ accounts compromised. The breach is estimated to have cost $351 000, it warned investors.

It seems that hackers and malware authors are using new techniques to infect your home or office PC, as veteran IT security vendor Sophos has spotted a rash of fake Amazon `shipping email updates’ over the weekend.

Thanks to the use of a wide-ranging licensing approach, deals with internet service providers and free trials on its anti-spam software plus allied technology, Cloudmark is claiming its technology now protects more than a billion users worldwide.

A team of researchers reported that they have cracked a 768-bit RSA encryption system using a clustered/distributed computer approach.

Microsoft has launched a technology policy website designed to encourage policy debates in key areas such as cloud computing, security, and privacy.

After several years of vendors offering IT security applications for so-called mobile smartphones, it seems that the market’s adoption of this technology is about to take off in the year ahead.