Trend Micro Inc., a global leader in Internet content security, announced that Trend Micro LeakProof was awarded five out of five stars and received SC Magazine's Best Buy award. Trend Micro LeakProof appliance received this recognition in the Extrusion Prevention group test.

MessageLabs, the leading provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, today announced the results of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for October 2008. Analysis highlights the increase of spam blogs on Google Blogspot and a rise in spam sent using fake MobileMe (formerly mac.com) accounts as a result of spammers finding it easier to obtain CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) breaking tools. To maximize the use of the fraudulent MobileMe email addresses, spammers link them with fake accounts created on social networking sites.

Defying geography and law enforcement, the Internet's "Axis of Evil" is anchored by the Russian Business Network (RBN) and supported by a series of organized criminal cyber networks and ISPs that look the other way, according to a report released today on Internet Evolution. Other points along this so-called axis with RBN include Cernel, Esthost, EstDomains, Hostfresh, and Rove Digital, among many others.

Disk Doctors' disaster recovery team members share the sorrows and pain endured by the victims of Hurricane Gustav and Ike by announcing donations and discounts on data recovery and raid recovery services. Disk Doctors is a provider of data recovery services and also provides software to recover data.

Censorship comes in all shapes and sizes, from trivial to momentous, and is hardly difficult to find in the world today. We generally look towards legislative and/or political solutions to this disease of institutional censorship, but we must also remember that, today, other solutions exist.

The risks associated with using the Internet remain high, yet many consumers are still complacent about online security according to the latest survey from Consumer Reports. U.S. consumers lost almost $8.5 billion over the last two years to viruses, spyware, and phishing schemes according to projections from the magazine's annual State of the Net survey featured in the September issue. Additionally, Consumer Reports estimates that American consumers have replaced about 2.1 million computers over the past two years because of online threats.

Permanent Privacy announces the world's first practical data encryption system that is absolutely unbreakable. And is offering a $1,000,000 challenge to anyone who can crack it.

TraceSecurity, a provider of SaaS security compliance and risk management solutions, disclosed today that the case of Citibank customers whose funds were hacked via the connection between ATMs and third parties processing their PIN codes, are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the overall security and compliance of the networks that process ATM transactions.

VoIPshield Laboratories, the research division of VoIPshield Systems Inc., today made its second announcement of security vulnerabilities in Voice over IP systems marketed by Avaya, Cisco and Nortel. This brings the total number of vulnerability groups reported to VoIP vendors in 2008 to over fifty, representing over 175 unique vulnerabilities.

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.