77% of security professionals back UK data-breach disclosure law
The push for the European Directive on Data Protection to be passed as UK law is gathering pace, according to database security company, Secerno. A survey of IT security …
Financially motivated threats the most frequent malware in June
According to PandaLabs, Trojans and adware accounted for 49.6% of infections detected by Panda ActiveScan in June. Trojans, which increased by 0.75% this month, caused 26.89% …
90% of corporate e-mail in the past quarter was spam
During the second quarter of 2007, spam accounted for more than 90% of corporate mail received. This data has been compiled from companies who have contracted TrustLayer Mail, …
Virses using iPhone, Harry Potter and sex
Aiphone.A is a Trojan that takes advantage of the anticipation surrounding iPhone to steal users’ banking data. This will be the subject of this week’s PandaLabs …
Technology that prevents taking screenshots of protected PDF content
LockLizard, specialists in PDF and web based information DRM solutions, announced a major new step forward in anti-piracy controls – preventing screen grabbing of their …
New software authenticator generates one-time passcodes on mobile devices
Secure Computing announced the availability of SafeWord MobilePass, a new software authenticator that allows a user access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Citrix, Outlook …
GFI LANguard N.S.S. named Best of Tech Ed 2007
GFI Software announced that its vulnerability management solution GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) was named as a winner of the “Best of Tech Ed Awards …
Something “completely different” – Independence Day trojan
Malware writers are out to cash in on the Independence Day celebrations of United States. A new email in circulation poses itself as a July Four greeting card sent by a friend …
MySpace attacks and malicious code
PandaLabs wrote about the appearance of several malicious codes that are using MySpace pages to spread. In some cases, these pages have not been specifically created to spread …
The threat of virus infected talking computers
If your computer starts talking to you and tells you that you are infected and your files have been deleted, it’s no joke, you have just been infected by the BotVoice.A …
Malware over real-time communications channels shows no sign of slowing
FaceTime Communications reported today that security incidents targeting public IM and P2P channels have increased by 5 percent in Q2 2007 compared with Q1 2007. In contrast, …
New Fujitsu secure 300GB 2.5″ portable external hard disk drive
Fujitsu today launched its new travel-ready and world’s highest capacity 2.5″ External Hard Disk Drive for the U.S. market. Featuring up to 300GB of storage space …
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