Acunetix, a pioneer on web application security scanning technology, has announced that the sophisticated SQL injection attacks recently launched on the websites of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the UK's Civil Service and the United Nations could have been prevented with the use of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.

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Sunbelt Software announced the top ten most prevalent spyware and malware threats for the month of April. The report, compiled from monthly scans performed by Sunbelt's award-winning antispyware tool, CounterSpy™, is a service of the Sunbelt Software Malware Research Labs.

BitDefender® announced that BitDefender antivirus analysts have uncovered a spam-sending scheme of Byzantine complexity. The discovery came with the identification of spam e-mails which claim to contain links to videos. When users try to click and see the video, they are instead prompted to download a "media player."

Even criminal hackers want to protect their intellectual property, and they've come up with a method akin to copyrighting — with an appropriate dash of Internet thuggery thrown in.

ScanSafe, the pioneer and leading provider of Web Security-as-a-Service today announced that for the second year in the row it has received the SC Magazine Europe 2008 award for ‘Best Content Security’ beating out finalists including MessageLabs, McAfee, Secure Computing and Websense.

MyLaptopGPS™ announced its relationship with Laptops for the Wounded to equip the charitable organization's laptop computers for injured U.S. soldiers with security technology that protects the machines from thieves.

Banking security specialists Cronto have published a guide to help demystify the latest threats to web banking services. Much publicity has been given to ‘phishing’ but the threat has now moved up to a much more sophisticated and worrying level.

Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies and the leading innovator of Unified Threat Management PLUS (UTM+) solutions, today announced that its Q1 2008 email threat trend report, prepared in collaboration with partner Commtouch, revealed that malware distributors and spammers are now hiding their unwanted messages within legitimate-appearing Websites and messages.

Microsoft Corp. denied the recent incident, in which more than half a million websites were hacked, was caused by vulnerabilities in its Web and SQL Server software, according to U.S. media reports Monday.