ITBackbones has a story about a new spyware that instead of keeping your system guarded against spywares, the program itself works as a Spyware and Adware, triggering pop-up ads and tampering with system components, seriously compromising the security of your computer in the process.

The GNU telephony project reports that GPL-licensed implementations of two key security protocols are available for use in Linux-based VoIP (voice-over-IP) devices and softphones. Additionally, a GPL-licensed softphone based on the new implementations is already available for download, testing, and use.

Singaporeans are more concerned about identity and credit card theft than terrorism and epidemics, according to a new study.

The Unisys Security Index, conducted in August this year by research company Synovate for Unisys, measures the level of concern held by Singaporeans to four areas: national, financial, Internet and personal security.

In its infinite wisdom, Microsoft has awarded MVP status to a software developer who pushed adware through his Messenger Plus program. It doesn?t install it without asking, but the adware he is pushing is Lop.

Sonicwall has put up a very interesting online security quizz : PHISHING ! This initiative has begun form the fact that chances are that you might receive a phishing email from your bank, investment broker,etc really soon now. It's a lot better to be educated and aware of what risks are induced by the phishing attacks.

BRUSSELS -- Microsoft is working to hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc. charged in a full-page ad in yesterday's Financial Times.

McAfee, Symantec, and other security software companies argue Microsoft's new Vista operating system will make it more difficult to protect customers because, for the first time, they have been denied access to the core of the operating system.

A new anti-phishing resource is available for all who have been victims of these security incidents.
Being a community effort, anybody can report phishing sites at http://www.phishtank.com/ so don't hesitate and start fighting back on phishing !

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date .

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 2 -- The Identity Theft Resource
Center(TM) (ITRC) has launched a new, nationwide, educational program to teach defensive identity theft consumer behavior for teens. It will be
available for free through their website, http://www.idtheftcenter.org starting October 2, 2006.

London and Karlsruhe (Germany) xx September 2006 ? Astaro Corporation (www.astaro.co.uk), a leader in providing unified threat management security solutions, has announced today that Astaro Security Gateway V6.300 has received the coveted Common Criteria certification from the German Federal Office for Information Security BSI (Bundesamt f?r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik).