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Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, has sealed a three year, half million dollar deal with Australian electronic payment gateway providers, eWAY.

AVG reckons on any given day around the world something like two million web pages are poisoned by hidden threats, and the security firm has just released a free link scanner download which it says will protect Internet users against these “random, invisible online threats”.

There’s real concern amongst Australian consumers who do their shopping, make payments and undertake banking transactions online that the current economic crisis has increased the risk of their identity being stolen or that they will be the target of cyber criminals.

Security warnings about the impending Conficker worm attacks on computers around the globe have been with us for a while now, and as iTWire reported just a few days ago, while the predicted apocalypse didn’t engulf the world after all, the worm’s still out there.  But, be warned, we’re now in the midst of a new security threat of large-scale proportions, according to Kapersky!

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.

The dreaded Conficker worm is constantly in the news these days, with consumers and businesses worldwide now bracing themselves for another expected attack from the malicious worm predicted to sweep the Internet on April Fool’s Day tomorrow.

With April Fool’s Day looming, Trend Micro is offering free protection against a new variant of the malicious Conficker worm that infected an estimated 15 million computers last year and is expected to be launched by “cyberfools” on 1 April.

There’s been a warning that publication of the Federal Government’s “black list” of pornographic and violent websites has fatally damaged its proposed compulsory Internet filtering regime.
 

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.