It’s that time of the year when everyone has a prediction for the year ahead, and in one prediction that just landed on iTWire’s newsdesk, there’s a number of dire predictions about security, with the warning that organised criminals will leverage advanced malware techniques in targeted attacks against businesses and that a major cloud provider will suffer a significant security breach.

The global security firm Websense reckons that your social media identity may prove more valuable to cybercriminals than your credit cards, and that bad guys will actively buy and sell social media credentials in online forums.

The weakest link in the security chain when confronting cyberthreats, including cybercrime attacks, is human action, otherwise known as ‘wetware’ in security industry jargon. And, we are warned, the world maybe looking down the barrel at a cybercrime disaster affecting not only personal users but businesses and governments.

In the digital world it is becoming much more difficult to know who to trust with access to the valuable information you store in digital form. Things are not always what they seem, and criminals from around the world are creating new and inventive ways to steal data from unsuspecting users. AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the distributor of the award-winning AVG Internet and mobile security software in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, provides a guide about what information you share and with whom you share it.

In an opinion piece today in the Sydney Morning Herald, Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, has defended the Cybercrime Bill against accusations that it will jeopardise people’s privacy and that private information will not be securely managed.

The Australian Greens has called on the Government to fix what it claims are serious flaws in the proposed Cybercrime Bill before presenting it for debate, and has accused the Government of using security as an excuse to ride roughshod over civil liberties.

AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the distributor of the award-winning AVG Internet and mobile security software in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, today announced that an independent study conducted with GFK shows that 25 percent of small businesses worldwide have selected AVG as the their trusted Internet security provider of choice.

AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the distributor of the award-winning AVG anti-virus and Internet security software in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, observes that almost every business traveller now takes at least one mobile device to the airport. Not everyone still has them all when they reach their destination. Read on for security tips to protect your mobile devices.

AVG (AU/NZ) Pty Ltd, the distributor of the award-winning AVG anti-virus and Internet security software in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, warns the BYOD ‘Bring Your Own Device’ to work phenomenon is catching SMBs off guard and exposing them to malware attacks and other cyber crime.

With the March RSA hack still ringing in the ears of token users, banks and any organisation that uses tokens for two-factor authentication, the world must finally learn that authentication does not equal security, as cyber criminals use malware to easily hijack authenticated but insecure sessions.