Symantec’s latest January 2012 report shows that spammers are being as deceptively clever as ever, “using holidays and major events to make their mail more appealing”, with 1 in every 327.9 Australian emails containing malware.

As part of a typical sales engagement, Palo Alto Networks will place one of their next-generation firewalls onto a potential customer's network to determine 'what's going on.'  Turns out, rather a lot.

We can all remember the “British Lottery” and “Nigerian prince/princess” emails, which asked us to provide our bank account details if we wanted to be loaded with money; but as we have grown smarter in identifying phishing attempts, so have the ‘bad guys’ behind cyber crime. Now, they aim at the big fish in the organisation.

An email appearing to come from a friend is a good way to get through Australians' defences, a security company claims.

Got a MobileMe account? Watch out for a phishing attack!

Security software vendor Intego has released a malware scanner for Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.

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.

The latest Symantec ‘state of spam and phishing’ for October shows a significant decline in spam levels worldwide.  Why is that?

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.

This week, IBM released its half-yearly X-Force Trend and Risk Report - a detailed analysis of the state of security threats and vendors responses to them.  Vulnerability disclosures are increasing, as well as the responses to them although the report found that 55% of the vulnerabilities reported in the first half of 2010 remained unfixed by mid-year.