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Security industry future looks solid, say analysts
Reports predict revenues will continue rising. Analyst firm Global Industry Analysts (GIA) has released its latest report on the future of the IT security market, predicting ‘stupendous growth’ and suggesting revenues may exceed $79 billion by 2010. The study backs up a recent Frost & Sullivan report on the anti-malware market, also suggesting strong growth…
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Symantec, AVG suffer problems
Vulnerabilities and false positives strike major products. Symantec users have been warned of some serious issues with archive handling, across a wide range of software produced by the company, which could be used to caused denial of service or even breach a system. AVG , meanwhile, has also been hit by a less serious vulnerability,…
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Microsoft opens security ‘portal’
New site carries prevalence data, updates and malware resources. Security teams at Microsoft have been busy this week, with the full unveiling of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center , a portal site bringing together a range of security resources, and also the release to beta of version 2.0 of the company’s home-user security product, Windows…
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SEC brings case against pump-and-dump spammers
Scam spotted after spammed mail sent to SEC lawyer. Two men from Texas have been charged with a range of spam and fraud offences after a 20-month campaign using botnets to spam pump-and-dump mails aimed at pushing up the price of a range of ‘penny’ stocks. Their scam came to the attention of the US…
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Controversy over IE-to-Firefox exploit
MS and Mozilla in row over blame for cross-browser attack. An exploit which involves browsing to a malicious website using Internet Explorer , but then launches an attack via a loophole in Mozilla Firefox , is causing controversy over which piece of software is ‘vulnerable’. The attack, apparently discovered simultaneously by two separate groups of…
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7 flaws fixed in July Patch Tuesday release
Critical patches issued for Excel, Active Directory and .NET. Microsoft has released a total of seven patches in its monthly ‘Patch Tuesday’ security update, with three of the vulnerable products covered marked as ‘critical’. The most significant problems are in Excel spreadsheet software, which has three separate vulnerabilities fixed this month, each allowing remote code…
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Spoof Spamhaus ads spammed out
Mail campaign claims to promote spam fighters. Spam-fighting organisation Spamhaus has been subjected to an attack on its reputation this week, with a sizeable campaign of spams containing promotional information about the company and the services it provides. The ‘Joe-Job’ emails come from faked sender addresses and use typically nonsensical, randomly generated subject lines, but…
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Google buys Postini
Managed security service snapped up by giant. Ever-expanding web giant Google has continued its growth into both security and software-as-service spheres with the $625 million acquisition of major email security provider Postini . Managed service provider Postini was set up in California in 1999 and now boasts 14 data centres around the world, with 35,000…
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Kaspersky sues Rising
Feuding AV firms to fight it out in court. Kaspersky ‘s Chinese subsidiary has brought a court case against local rival Rising , after an escalating war of words between the two companies. The row began in late May, when Kaspersky suffered a false positive, detecting a component of Rising ‘s anti-spyware product as a…
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