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Google is taking issue with a report that says click fraud hit a record high in the fourth quarter.

Symantec posted a big loss Wednesday, citing the tough economic climate, but the company's quarterly earnings still were better than analysts had expected.

More than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the U.S., a figure that underscores continuing difficulties in securing information, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

Apple has taken the place of Microsoft for disclosing more vulnerabilities than any other vendor, according to an IBM security report.

The Srizbi botnet has stormed over its competition to become the Internet's biggest spammer.

More than 3600 vulnerabilities discovered last year remain un-patched, according to a study.

Organizations that experience data breaches are paying more than ever to recover from the incidents and retain customers once the events become public knowledge, according to a new research report.

The Department of Veterans' Affairs is killing two birds with a single stone as it moves to tackle spam and address strict new data protection requirements

Image spam--e-mail solicitations that use graphical images of text--is not new. But its rising sophistication has made much of it invisible to spam filters so that it makes up one-third of all spam, according to Doug Bowers, director of antiabuse engineering at Symantec. E-mail traffic--83 percent of which was spam--rose in 2006, according to antispam company BorderWare, and researchers there expect image spam to grow.

The U.K. Security Service, responsible for the country's counterterrorism efforts, plans to send out e-mail alerts to citizens warning them of changes to the "national threat level," a measure of the risk of terrorist attacks. It will announce the start date and details of the sign-up process soon, it said Tuesday.