A security vendor is predicting a 23% growth in malware during 2012.

Security provider Websense has detected a spike in spam activity. Has an old bot network been reactivated, or is there a new botnet in town?

Several current trends in the security landscape are likely to continue, according to a McAfee executive. But some are expected to be reversed, and that's not good news for those of us on the right side of the law.

30 ISPs representing 90 percent of Australian Internet users are now signed up to the Internet Industry Association's icode that aims to reduce the number of PCs infected with botnets, and which has caught the attention of US president Barack Obama's 'Cyberczar' Howard Schmidt.

Security software vendor Sophos has released its latest statistics on spam relaying, and Asia has seized the top spot from Europe. Not that it's anything to be proud of.

A voluntary code for ISPs designed to minimise the impact of 'Zombie' computers - those compromised and recruited into botnets to spread malware - has come into force.

What are the threats currently facing Windows users? McAfee has some answers to this question, and its advice includes being especially watchful for phishing attempts at the end of each quarter.

A global network of 55,000 computers have been infected by the Mumba botnet, with more than 60GB of personal data stolen from users including credentials from social networking web sites, bank account details, credit card numbers and emails.

The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has introduced a voluntary code of practice for Australian Internet service providers in a bid to improve cybersecurity for Internet users. It recommends that ISPs, in extreme cases, disconnect from the Internet a customer's computer that has been recruited into a botnet.

{loadposition peter}There has been a worldwide surge in spam levels over the past month which Symantec primarily puts down to an increase in spam emanating from the Grum and Rustock botnets.