A recent 'purchasing raid' on Sydney's RailCorp lost property auction yielded 50 memory sticks, 66% of which contained malware.

Victoria and Western Australia have signed on to the Document Verification Service (DVS), designed to protect Australians against identity theft.

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced the results of a survey, under the headline: "New research shows identity theft affects one in six people," but that's something of an exaggeration depending exactly on what you take 'effects' to mean.

Symantec wants internet users to check its newly launched Cybercrime Index every morning – to make sure they steer clear of the latest net nasties.

A national Newspoll survey commissioned by Symantec has found almost three-quarters of Australian workers are accessing social networking sites even though almost half have been the victims of cybercrime including phishing, identity theft and receiving a computer virus through these sites.

Kaspersky Lab, the international Russian tech security titan that is 89th on the list of top 100 Russian companies and growing fast, has launched a range of new products for consumers, businesses, enterprise and government, effectively declaring out-all war to protect its 300m+ users from the cyber criminals that threaten the very Internet as we know it!

AVG (AU/NZ) offers some advice on how to prevent criminals from stealing your identity and your money.

Internal staff have traditionally been viewed as a bigger threat to business security than external hackers. AVG (AU/NZ) looks at whether this still holds true given the increasing sophistication of cyber criminals.

It’s annual Privacy Awareness Week time (2 to 8 May 2010) and AVG (AU/NZ) suggests you might like to take the easy online multiple choice quiz which looks at 11 situations in which you might be subject to ID theft. The test from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Australia can be found at http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/id_theft_tool/index.html.

This week (May 2 to 8) is Privacy Awareness Week around the Asia Pacific and the region's privacy bodies have developed an online Q&A tool to help people assess how well they protect themselves against identity theft.