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.

According to StopBadware.org, the latest version of RealPlayer is tricking the users installing, once with it, the Rhapsody Player Engine required to access RealNetwork's online music service. The problem appears when Rhapsody Player Engine can’t be removed, even if you uninstall the RealPlayer.

As SCMagazine informs us, a new threat has emerged in the spam world. Apparently, it’s dressed up like a new botnet spamming male sexual enhancement pill advertisings and has already managed to surpass the infamous Storm worm botnet which had been considered so far the ‘largest single source of the world’s spam’.

New face in town: the Beselo worm. It targets Nokia smartphones. The security firms, among which SMobile Systems, are worried and are trying to develop a disinfection device.On its blog, F-Secure, an anti-virus supplier, posted a warning concerning the virus. Smartphones running the Symbian S60 Second Edition operating system are the affected one.

It looks like the Storm worm has been a great success. This is the official opinion of the 2007 Global Threat Report from  security firm ESET.The social engineering tactics used over the past 12 months and the duration of the methods represented the concern of the report.

US-CERT has received reports of new Storm Worm activity circulating. The emails contain romantic or Valentine's Day greetings and provide links for users to click on. The links are in the form of actual IP addresses, such as http:/x.x.x.x, although actual domain names may also be used. If a user clicks on the link provided, they will be directed to a malicious website that will attempt to exploit a variety of vulnerabilities and install malware onto the user's system.