Better economic conditions mean that spammers are once again advertising third party products and services, rather than mounting spam campaigns attempting to garner business for themselves, a new report from Kaspersky said this week.

Spam king Alan Ralsky was sentenced to four years in jail this week, for pump-and-dump stock spamming. Nine other spammers were also sent to jail for the same crime.

A third piece of iPhone malware has appeared, pushing the envelope further than ever before by creating a botnet of infected devices and acting as a banking trojan.

Economically challenged employees are likely to abandon their ethics in pursuit of new jobs by stealing corporate data, according to a survey from security firm Cyber-Ark.

The Canadian government is collecting more personal financial information on citizens than the law allows, according to the country’s federal Privacy Commissioner.

Mobile working and online collaboration are two of the most threatening trends when it comes to information security in the federal government, according to a report released by the Ponemon Institute.

IT security vendor Webroot says that a phishing scam purporting to come from Visa, the international card issuer, is scamming internet users as they start their online shopping for Christmas.

Fortinet, the unified threat management (UTM) specialist, has gone public with an initial public offering (IPO) projected originally at $9 to $11 a share.

Imation has announced what it says is the world’s first wireless USB external hard drive.

The Gumblar botnet has moved into overdrive, changing its operating model to dramatically increase its infection rates, according to the latest monthly threat report from ScanSafe.