The Metasploit project, which aims to permit plug-and-play exploiting for penetration testers and researchers, will add the capability to attack the wireless functionality of Windows and Linux operating systems, founder HD Moore said on his blog this week.

Further than displaying an wide line up of existing Linux solutions, vendors at this week's InfoSecurity show pointed to possible future offerings spanning from a Linux client for a CD-ROM encryption system to a Linux-enabled all-in-one device for securing both physical access and video surveillance.

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) is advising its members that under U.S. law, government agents may confiscate and search a person´s laptop computer, computer discs, and other electronic media when that person arrives in the U.S. from abroad or departs from the U.S for a foreign country,” we knew from an official communication by the ACTE Executive Director, Susan Gurley.

The much anticipated Firefox 2.0 was launched by the Mozilla Foundation yesterday - and immediately generated a storm of protests over privacy issues.

Webroot Software , in cooperation with research solutions provider GMI presented a recent report which shows that young males aged 18 to 29 are at the highest risk of being infected with spyware.

Richmond based First Market Bank is warning hundreds of its customers that their accounts may have been compromised. The security breach affects roughly one-percent of First Market Bank customers.

Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the U.K. open-source community, has warned about complacency over the security of open-source projects.

Speaking to delegates at London's LinuxWorld conference on Wednesday, he emphasized that considerable sums of money were being spent in attempting to hack into open-source systems.

KDDI Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s second largest integrated telecoms operator KDDI Corp, has contracted US-based Juniper Networks to supply it with Secure Access SSL VPN appliances to launch a managed service providing secure remote network access in Europe.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded information technology solutions provider Merlin International and Watchfire, a provider of Web application vulnerability software, a multimillion-dollar award to build and maintain a Web application security system that will reduce security breach risks at the VA.

Zombies continue to be the major danger to Windows security, Microsoft said Monday. During the six months from January to June 2006, over 43,000 new variants of so-called "backdoor Trojans" were revealed.