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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.

When Michael Chertoff took over 11 months ago as the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, he vowed that the department would adopt a risk-based approach. No one really argued. It made sense to focus resources on the country's biggest risks.

Enterprises have seen a dramatic increase in spyware infections this year, according to the Sophos 2005 Security Threat Management Report.

Seven quick-and-dirty tricks for using numbers to strengthen your case.

The National Australia Bank is giving its online banking users access to two-factor ID in an effort to combat online fraud which the Australian Banking Association estimates costs the industry $25 million annually.