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.

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.

New 2.2 version enhances Spyware Terminator user security and privacy with extended spyware databases offering more than 120,000 new items for extra protection.

Webroot, has issued a white paper entitled ‘How to Protect Business from Malware at the Endpoint and the Perimeter’ that includes four key tips to protect enterprises and SMEs against malware infection.

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.

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.

Process Software, a premier supplier of communications software solutions to mission-critical environments, announced the release of SpyCatcher Enterprise v5.0.The latest version offers a new spyware Profiling Engine, which includes multiple layers of technology to stop the most sophisticated spyware threats.

China is the departure location for a Trojan horse, Mocmex on its name. It comes in the digital photo frames or portable storage devices. It insinuated itself during the manufacturing process, is undetectable for the antivirus programs and can skip over the Windows firewall.

Every spy has another one behind, supervising him. Is this principle applicable even in the case of the spyware and anti-spyware? So it looks.

The worse scenario is that ending in a court because bad guys and good guys seem to belong to the same group, or it’s getting harder to distinguish between them. The president of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance, Tim Bennett, said that content providers sued alliance members for labeling them as bad.

Gian Fulgoni, ComScore chairman and co-founder, felt necessary to straighter the fact that the term "researchware", on one hand, and 'adware,' 'spyware,' and 'malware', on the other hand, must not be confused. The distinction is that while the first is used by the market researchers, the second ones are used by the criminal researchers.