According to Cyveillance's Latest Cyber Intelligence Report: Detection Rates for Malware are Getting Worse and Anti-Phishing Filters Detect Less than 50% of Attacks. Cyveillance, the world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced that a recent test of best-of-breed anti-virus vendors and Web browser anti-phishing filters revealed that more than half of active malware and phishing threats on the Internet go undetected, with an average detection rate of 37 percent for malware and 42 percent for phishing. This data was captured as part of Cyveillance's "2H 2008 Cyber Intelligence Report," which was issued today.

Leading search engine Ask.com, an operating business of IAC  with 76 million monthly unique users, and Symantec Corp., whose Norton brand is the world's security market share leader for consumer software and services, today announced a multi-year, strategic partnership to deliver the best answers and even safer search results on the Web.

Internet security vendors were put on alert as news of a computer threat, dubbed "The Obama worm", spread across the industry earlier this week. The "Obama worm" was discovered on the network of a K-12 school and first reported by Walling Data, North America's top distributor of AVG Internet Security Products. Only on Mondays a semi-transparent image of the President's face pops up in the bottom right hand corner of infected computers. The threat is more of nuisance than a serious threat but can completely destroy a machine's ability to function.

Software Security Solutions, Inc. (SSS), a technology firm specializing in security solutions for home users and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), is offering the latest in web surfing protection for both families and companies. CyberPatrol blocks access to harmful web sites and URLs. Unfortunately, there are now millions of inappropriate and malicious sites on the worldwide web that can disrupt business operations or be harmful to children and families.

Optenet, a global IT security company and provider of high-performance content filtering solutions, today announced the immediate availability of a new cost-effective and easy-to-deploy appliance that enables service providers to block access to known illegal and illicit Web sites. WOLF can be quickly and easily added to a provider's network, serving as an important initial step toward full-featured Web security.

A well-organized online fraud is scamming over 71,000 travelers each month as they book rooms online at some of America's best known hotel chains, including Hyatt, Clarion, TraveLodge, Comfort Inn, Red Roof, EconoLodge, Super 8, Ramada, Days Inn, and Wyndham, according to an exclusive report by FraudTip.com.

Intego has discovered a new Trojan horse, OSX.Trojan.iServices.A, which is currently circulating in copies of Apple’s iWork 09 found on BitTorrent trackers and other sites containing links to pirated software. The version of iWork 09, Apple’s productivity suite, are complete and functional, but the installer contains an additional package called iWorkServices.pkg.

PandaLabs, Panda Security's malware analysis and detection laboratory, today revealed that almost six percent (5.77 percent) of the two million computers they scanned showed an infection by the malicious Conficker worm. The worm, which originated in China, has now extended across 83 countries, and is particularly virulent in the United States, Spain, Taiwan, Brazil and Mexico. In the U.S. alone, PandaLabs has identified at least 18,000 infected computers, although the real figure could be much higher.

Email spam has been growing exponentially for several years to a total of several billion messages a day. Spam has frustrated, confused and annoyed millions of email users worldwide. Spam intrudes, invades and interrupts time whenever a person checks for email messages, wasting precious time in the process.

AVG Technologies, a global anti-virus and Internet security software provider with over 80 million users in 167 countries, today announced that its Internet Security Network Edition (NE) solution has received the "Recommended" designation in the most recent Anti-malware Group Test performed by security publication SC Magazine. Eight companies participated in the test. AVG Internet Security NE received the highest possible overall rating of five stars.