ESET®, the leader in proactive threat protection, announced the introduction of ESET Mobile Antivirus, a new security solution for mobile devices. This lightweight anti-malware software takes the company's state-of-the-art heuristic technology and optimizes it for the mobile platform.

GT Security, the leader in cross platform data security, announces the launch of SecuriKey v3.0, providing full support for Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X Tiger. Designed to keep mobile data safe, SecuriKey 3.0 controls access and protects data through a layering of strong authentication via the SecuriKey USB Token together with a variety of AES-based data encryption options. SecuriKey 3.0 also includes elegant, robust management software to easily manage protected data access in a cross platform environment.

Panda ActiveScan detected and eliminated 86 percent of malware hidden with rootkits, beating other vendors' online scanners Panda Antivirus 2008 detected and eliminated all active and latent rootkits used in the study.

A system designed to help protect retailers and consumers from credit card fraud is now being used by fraudsters to steal goods from retailers, according to fraud protection specialists the 3rd Man. The potentially serious flaw in the system, which fraudsters are already exploiting and could result in millions of pounds of card crime, was spotted by one of the 3rd Man’s fraud analysts as she was monitoring daily card transactions on behalf of a retailer.

Picture this: you live on a sprawling estate in the countryside. You have a security system that will alert you if any unauthorized intruders make their way onto the property. The only problem is, the "security system" is a squad of elderly gentlemen that shuffle contentedly and slowly down the paths, through the gardens and across the fields, taking a day or more to completely cover the estate.

Skype released a security bulletin describing a recently found vulnerability :Skype File URI Security Bypass Code Execution Vulnerability. Affected are all Skype Windows clients prior to and including
3.8.*.115, with the vulnerability already fixed in versions 3.8.0.139.

Social networkers across Europe are three times more frustrated by spam and advertising (36%), than the security of their personal information (11%), according to research by Wadja, the mobile web, media and messaging service.

MMP2P Technologies (http://www.mp2p.net/) announced today that it has been served with a lawsuit from what remains of the four major record labels. The lawsuit, WARNER MUSIC SPAIN S.A., UNIVERSAL MUSIC SPAIN, S.A., EMI MUSIC SPAIN, S.A., SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, S.A., PRODUCTORES DE MUSICA EN ESPANA (PROMUSICAE) v. PABLO SOTO BRAVO, OPTISOFT, S.L., PIOLET NETWORKS, S.L., MP2P TECHNOLOGIES, S.A. (filed in Madrid Court for Commercial Matters # 2807910001898), seeks $20mm in alleged damages from the technology upstart.

Following a February 27 security breach in Connecticut by the Bank of New York Mellon in which it lost up to 4.5 million customers' unencrypted financial data from banks including Wachovia, Chief Risk Officer Todd Gibbons said in a statement, "Protecting the confidentiality of our clients' information has long been a top priority at The Bank of New York Mellon."

Finland is safest; Hong Kong is the most dangerous and it has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web according to a new McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) report called "Mapping the Mal Web Revisited" which is released today. Hong Kong takes the mantle from Tokelau, a tiny island of 1,500 inhabitants in the South Pacific.