A new warning signal regarding the PC security appeared after Gregory Kopiloff from Seattle received 51 months of prison for committing identity theft through the LimeWire peer-to-peer networks.

The G-Archiver program, used to support the Gmail, turned to be a malicious spyware app that emails the customer’s Gmail username and password to a secret Gmail account.

The security experts at Agnitum, the leading firewall provider, announced the availability of Outpost Antivirus Pro, offering an extended security arsenal to protect users against malware infection, identity theft, and websites that may be hosting malicious content. In a new twist, the company is offering Outpost Antivirus Pro at a flat annual subscription fee rather than the license-plus-annual renewals model that has become the industry standard.

A recent study brings to light concerning statistics : the phishing attacks highly increased their number (six time) on the country's lenders. And this is in the last four months alone. It is known that through phishing can be stolen credit cards details, social security numbers, user IDs and passwords for obtaining money.

The Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain said a breach of its computer system led to the theft of about 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from its Hannaford and Sweetbay stores and other locations. Local shoppers said they were stunned yesterday by a major supermarket's announcement that 4.2 million customer credit and debit card numbers were exposed in a security breach.

The Department of Homeland Security's second iteration of Cyber Storm is responsible for a massive cyber attack simulation. Through it, and with the help of a congressionally mandated exercise, white hat hackers tested whether  the government and business officials can handle cyberthreats to critical networked services.

Microsoft's Mobile Operating Systems, Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 6, attain the Common Criteria EAL 2+ Assurance Level; security certification accepted by 24 worldwide members.

More than 20,000 Web pages infected on hundreds of Web sites had been discovered by the researchers from the McAfee Inc. security company. It looks to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China.

Comodo announced today the commercial release of Trustix™ Enterprise Firewall version 4.8, (TEF) a free enterprise class LINUX-based firewall solution. Trustix™ Enterprise Firewall delivers a high performance firewall that monitors network traffic and protects the network against unauthenticated traffic or login attempts which could inject Trojans, worms, or infected files into the network.

BT, TalkTalk and Virgin Media broadband internet providers, faced the anger of the customers after collaborating with a pioneer in spyware technology. With nine million households between them, they signed up to software from AIM-listed business Phorm, run by US magnate Kent Ertugrul.