WhiteHat Security, the leading provider of website security solutions, today released the sixth installment of the WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report, providing a unique high-level perspective on the leading Web application security issues across industries such as retail, financial services, technology and healthcare, based on real-world websites. WhiteHat has published the report for two years, highlighting the top ten vulnerabilities, vertical market trends and emerging attack vectors.

Following up on promises made in September, Google has outlined plans to open their Chrome browser to third-party extensions. Web of Trust is included in an initial list of 15 add-ons that Google is targeting to support. Chrome's closest rival, Mozilla's open source browser Firefox, is popular because the browser can be extended with a multitude of add-ons. Web of Trust (WOT) has reached 2 million downloads since securing a place on Mozilla's coveted recommended add-on list.

Webroot, a leading security provider for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the latest release of Webroot® Web Security SaaS to further protect organizations around the world from the rapidly increasing amount of Web-borne threats.

Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) has documented step-by-step how corporate data were being stolen and stored on remote servers owned by criminals. In its October 2008 Malicious Page of the Month report, Finjan describes how a corporate user, while browsing the web for his regular business needs, got infected with a Trojan.

Netsweeper Inc. announces innovative enhancements with integration of real-time virus and malware scanning technology to its core content categorisation technology. With new web content being posted every minute of every day, the likelihood of malicious threats also being posted is a certainty.

Internet criminals are using Search Engine Optimization tactics to promote links to free hosted blog sites in an attempt to dupe unsuspecting visitors into infecting themselves with malware and fake anti-virus products, say experts from Marshal's TRACE threat team.

Cenzic Inc., the leading provider of Web application security assessment and risk management solutions, continues its ongoing commitment to community-based Web application security initiatives as the company announces the launch of a series that addresses relevant issues for individuals looking for education on the latest vulnerabilities and security issues.

IronPort Systems Inc., a leading provider of solutions that protect businesses against spam, viruses, malware and spyware, and now part of Cisco, today announced that it has enhanced the protection offered by its Web-security appliances with the addition of Exploit Filtering. Exploit Filtering utilizes IronPort’s distinctive Web-reputation technology to protect users from malware delivered through compromised Web sites even when these sites are not identified through URL filtering or signature scanning. Exploit Filtering is available on the IronPort S-SeriesTM family of Web-security appliances.

Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products, today announced that its Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) discovered examples of obfuscated code embedded in rich-content files, and not only in HTML-webpages on legitimate websites.

Provider of messaging and web security services to businesses worldwide, MessageLabs, has released the results of its Intelligence Report for August 2008. Mark Sunner, Chief Security Analyst, MessageLabs noted, "Over the course of this year, spammers have been highly focused on using as many of Google's free, hosted services as possible to distribute spam. Not only are the links contained within the spam emails difficult for traditional anti-spam filters to detect as they appear to be legitimate URLs, but it is also much more unlikely such filters will block emails based on the URLs they contain without causing significant collateral damage.