Get rich quick email scams more than doubled in October, according to the monthly Spam Index from security software vendor Clearswift.

Cyber security intelligence provider VeriSign company iDefense, has released data indicating that hackers are on pace to unleash a record setting 6,191 keyloggers in 2005, a 65% increase on 2004.

Fujitsu has launched a contactless palm vein device for biometric authentication security in Australia.

Messaging security services provider, MessageLabs, has created three new positions for managed security services in the Asia Pacific market with particular focus on Australia. Joining the Asia Pacific team are Andrew Antal - marketing director, Tom Chan – client services manager and Belinda Burgess - partner account director, all based in Sydney. Antal was most recently the marketing director Asia Pacific for Interwoven. Previously he held regional and marketing roles for Computer Associates, Insevo Inc, VERITAS Software, Seagate and Autodesk. In 2000-2001 he was based in Mountain View California as a senior marketing director for VERITAS. Burgess comes to MessageLabs from Cisco where she was the distribution service account manager. Chan has worked with MCI Worldcom and IBM – both of which are MessageLabs channel partners.

Blogging has joined the growing list of IT security threats as employees sound off on the web, according to an online security firm.

Honeywell Australia's boss told attendees at the Smart Borders Conference in Sydney yesterday that the nation’s current security needs could only be met by a new generation of integrated systems.

There’s a new trick in online phishing, and this time it uses Yahoo! Photos as the bait. Imitating the Yahoo! Photos site almost exactly, it is difficult for most users to tell the difference between the authentic Yahoo! site and a newly emerged forgery.

A new survey indicates that having to maintain multiple passwords at work has the potential of compromising the security of organisations due to user frustration.

US-based name matching software developer, Language Analysis Systems (LAS), has set up an Australian office in Canberra, to capture a share of the immigration security market.