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Spam levels in Australia have now outstripped those seen in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada and even the United States - Symantec says.

Microsoft’s sales of new software have taken a hefty hit from the economic downturn but the sheer size of the company’s existing share of the market, with its software installed on many millions of machines worldwide, has seen its revenues hold up well in a belt-tightening market.

There was a three-fold increase in the number of malicious websites around the world infected with malware in March, with almost 3,000 potentially harmful sites intercepted every day of the month.

Cyber risks and actual attacks have grown significantly in the past two years and are expected to continue to grow in the next two years, with many organisations experiencing tangible losses as a result of the attacks.

This Thursday 26 March, marks the 10 year anniversary of the notorious Melissa virus, the very first notable email-aware virus, allegedly named after a lap dancer who the virus creator, David L Smith, supposedly met in Florida.

Responding to what it says is growing market concern over the potential for data loss, CSC, a global provider of technology-enabled solutions and services, has launched a data loss prevention (DLP) service in collaboration with Symantec, to identify, monitor and proactively protect confidential data.

BitDefender is offering a free tool for consumers that will disinfect all versions of Downadup – or  the Conficker worm as it’s commonly known – which the security firm says has swept across the globe infecting 15 million computers worldwide.

Symantec has uncovered a new variant of the Downadup threat (a.k.a. Conficker) which it warns is being pushed out to systems that are already infected with Downadup.

Symantec has issued a new security alert warning of a vulnerability in Adobe and with early reports of targeted rather than widespread attacks.

Valentine’s Day is not all it’s cracked up to be if you’re an avid, online romantic, at least that seems to be the message from two security companies as the day of romance and love approaches.