F-Secure is warning Windows users worldwide of a new ransomware trojan that silently encrypts your data, tells you your data has been corrupted, and tries selling you “data doctor” software to fix the corrupted files – when all it does it decrypt the data, in what is an almost perfect scam!

Last year when I looked at what was then the groundbreaking Norton Internet Security 2009, I billed it as a lean, mean, malware fightin’ machine, but with the new 2010 version, it’s an even faster malware blaster!

Check Point Full Disk Encryption is now available for Mac OS X 10.6

Online security checkers have been around for a while, but there's a new kid on the block: F-Secure's Health Check 2.0.

Visa Europe has taken a stake in Australian global authentication company, Emue Technologies, following collaboration over the past 18 months with Emue in the development of the Visa CodeSure solution which provides authentication and transaction security through what Visa says is a “unique payment card” with embedded display, microprocessor and numeric keypad.  

Curtin University of Technology researcher, Don Griffiths, has been awarded a government grant to develop a system that enables a secure computing environment to be loaded onto a USB memory stick and then used to provide secure access to corporate applications from any PC.

The Australian distributor of AVG security software took the number eight spot on this year's Fast 100 list of rapidly growing SMEs.

Concerns about Internet security in Australia are growing rapidly, to the point that the majority of Australians now say they are happy for a wider deployment of biometric technology and to use their fingerprint to prove their identity.

Cybercriminals are employing increasingly persuasive online scare tactics to convince users to purchase rogue security software, or “scareware” software that pretends to be legitimate security software. 

McAfee has released its Endpoint Protection for Mac that supports Apple’s latest Snow Leopard release of Mac OS X, as well as Leopard and Tiger.