More than 80 per cent of IT decision makers worldwide, including CIOs, IT directors and IT managers, view Business Continuity and Availability (BC&A) as an increased priority for 2007 as compared to 2006 and key to sharpening their competitive business edge worldwide...

The Internet is being plagued with escalating amounts of Spam and malaware these days. According to security firm Finjan, US-based servers host malicious code. Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of Finjan said, "Most people think of Russia and China when you talk about malicious code," he says...

Microsoft is probing the possibility of fraud on its Xbox Live online gaming service. "Recently, there have been reports of fraudulent activity and account theft taking place on the Xbox Live network," a Microsoft representative said in a statement. "Security...

Google has plans to launch privacy measures that aim to ensure protection of users who are using the facility wordwide. This strategy aims to make it more difficult to connect online search requests with the people making them...

Sophos, IT security and control company, has reminded stock traders of the danger of 'pump-and-dump' financial Spam campaigns, following the announcement that the SEC has suspended trading of 35 companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission, who have dubbed...

Mozilla has released a fix for the JavaScript flaw in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite. The flaw let uniform resource identifiers in image tags to be implemented even if JavaScript was disabled in the program preferences, Mozilla said...

Security firm, Sophos has warned of a bizarre Trojan horse that has been distributed on Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames-A Trojan horse has been distributed on the controversial Winny file-sharing network in Japan, posing as a screensaver...

Sophos's global network of virus, spyware and Spam analysis centres, has welcomed news that a man has pleaded guilty to writing and distributing a Trojan horse designed to steal usernames and passwords from computer users. Richard C. Honour, 31, faces a maximum penalty of five years...

Sophos has warned German computer users to be on their guard against a malicious email which claims to come from home furniture giant Ikea. The emails, which have been widely spammed out, pose as a communication from Ikea Deutschland, but opening the attached file launches the...

Cisco has unveiled a tested and validated wireless solution to secure business critical applications and data, as well as business environments with the launch of the Cisco Secure Wireless Solution. This solution forges network security using Cisco's Self-Defending Network...

Symantec has come across another Excel-based document with a malformed image string, dubbed Trojan.Mdropper.Y. Microsoft has acknowledged the presence of the flaw in the spreadsheet software Excel. The flaw allows maliciously crafted spreadsheet files, known as '.xls' files...

China has renewed its efforts to tackle piracy. In line with this new venture China has decided to close 205 Web sites that were dealing with piracy. “Piracy of intellectual property on the Internet has seriously harmed the interests of copyright owners, leading to a large number...

Skype and FaceTime have joined hands to provide business users a more secure service. Skype has plans to imbibe FaceTime security management tools into its software. This move is to enable system administrators easier access to, and control of, business users...

eEye Digital Security, a developer of system security software, has released the latest version of Blink Professional. eEye is combining its own anti-virus dynamic heuristics technology with ‘sandboxing’ technology from anti-virus vendor Norman Data Defense to complete Blink...

Security firm Sophos has revealed that the United States still retains its position as Spam leader. Cina is clse on heels, the firm reported. "The US remains a hot spot for online criminal activity, and despite authorities' continued efforts to clamp down on cyber crime, too many US-hosted web sites...

The new 'Storm Worm' seems to be brewing a storm. "It’s been the busiest weekend we’ve had in several months or perhaps a year," Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer of Finnish anti-virus vendor F-Secure, said. "We rarely see such large trojan spam runs anymore"...

MySpace has launched a free tool called ‘Zephyr’ that aims to provide online safety for children. Many children have been falling prey to online criminals by divulging personal information about themselves on social networking sites. The software aims to allow parents know what their...

PayPal is planning to unveil a new device designed for protection against phishing scams. In most cases phishing scams utilize the name of either eBay or PayPal. In order to combat scams such as these PayPal is launching a new device to fight against the phishers, a USD 5 security key fob...

The National Security Agency (NSA) has aided Microsoft to develop a security configuration for its Vista operating system. The reason NSA came in to help Microsoft was to meet US Department of Defense (DoD) requirements, said NSA Spokesman Ken White...