MX Logic, the world's largest independent provider of managed email and Web security solutions, today released the September MX Logic Threat Forecast &Report. The monthly report provides information on recent and potential email and Web threats, as well as expert analysis of real time spam and virus events. This month's analysis includes the following highlights.

IBM today released results from its X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report. The report's findings show an unprecedented state of Web insecurity as Web client, server, and content threats converge to create an untenable risk landscape.Report finds more than 500 percent increase in malicious Web links and increased sophistication in vulnerability exploitation.

ShieldSafe , an experienced leader in providing identity theft prevention services to consumers, today announced the launch of "America Protected," a free service that helps consumers protect themselves from identity theft at no charge. Now everyone can protect themselves from identity theft for free without having to pay a company to do it for them.

Software developer AccentSoft Team has released a new beta version of Accent OFFICE Password Recovery, a powerful and high-speed password recovery tool. The software incorporates greatly optimized search algorithms that enable a sevenfold acceleration of the recovery time of a strong password compared with previous versions.

Online pharmacy verification service LegitScript and Internet compliance company KnujOn released a report last week analyzing Microsoft-sponsored search results on bing.com for Internet pharmacies, showing that some sold counterfeit drugs and many did not require a prescription. Microsoft subsequently said they conducted a manual sweep to clean up the problem. Days after that, the researchers again purchased more addictive prescription drugs without a prescription from a bing.com ad.

Platinum Protection is now offering a new application for BlackBerry and iPhone devices - making it possible for homeowners to remotely arm and disarm their security system, as well as allowing customers to monitor their homes through live video streamed directly to their phone

A pioneering new feature on the iBoss Enterprise Web Filter now makes the industry-leading web-filtering device the only one on the market to offer the ability to record, monitor and control user desktops. The patent-pending Desktop Monitor Control and Record (DMCR) function not only takes the guesswork out of confronting Internet-use policy violators at large companies and educational institutions, but potentially reduces overhead by providing more efficient remote desktop control.

Have you ever encountered a system crash and spent a lot of time to restore? Say goodbye to that problem now. EASEUS, the security and storage management software producer, launches its free system backup software: EASEUS Todo Backup to solve this problem. The newly developed free backup software is especially designed for system state backup and system disaster restore, which means users no longer have to worry about a system crash.

Security Innovation is offering free access to the complete Software Security Awareness Course from August 12 - August 14. Simply create a new Team Professor account or log in to your existing account in order to gain access to the course. Simple as that. No strings attached!

Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced that PandaLabs, the company's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, has discovered that 52 percent of new viruses last only 24 hours. Each day, PandaLabs receives nearly 37,000 samples of new viruses, worms, Trojans and other types of Internet threats. Of these, PandaLabs found that approximately 52 percent of them (19,240 on average) spread and try to infect users for just 24 hours.