Microsoft will not pay bounties to bug hunters 

Microsoft will not pay bounties to bug hunters

Declines to follow Mozilla and Google.
Researchers crack Palm webOS with a text message 

Researchers crack Palm webOS with a text message

Operating system riddled with security holes.
Research team uncovers cyberspy network targeting India 

Research team uncovers cyberspy network targeting India

Chinese authorities again suspected.
Vulnerabilities falling but malware booms 

Vulnerabilities falling but malware booms

ISS X-Force survey finds some good news, and a lot of bad.
Scientists use e-commerce techniques to block attacks 

Scientists use e-commerce techniques to block attacks

Highly predictive blacklisting.
Researchers build autodestruct code for personal data 

Researchers build autodestruct code for personal data

Code will self-delete after set period.
Deloitte launches counter-espionage team 

Deloitte launches counter-espionage team

Competitors still a security risk.
Update: Websense shuts Sydney R&D team down 

Update: Websense shuts Sydney R&D team down

Websense has confirmed it will relocate its Sydney-based research and development team to China, resulting in 25 local job cuts.
Team of Spanish hackers arrested 

Team of Spanish hackers arrested

Spanish authorities charged a team of young hackers with infiltrating more than 20,000 web pages, including one belonging to NASA.
Cisco, EMC, Microsoft team up to help feds protect and share data 

Cisco, EMC, Microsoft team up to help feds protect and share data

Three of the world's largest IT vendors have partnered to create a technology architecture alliance aimed at helping federal agencies both protect and share sensitive information.
Secret Service and Homeland Security team up on cybercrime education facility 

Secret Service and Homeland Security team up on cybercrime education facility

An ambitious idea by a state district attorney's association has led to the creation of a first-of-its-kind federal facility designed to train local law enforcement officials ...
Australian cricket team email attack 

Australian cricket team email attack

Australia’s struggling one-day cricket team is the subject of the latest attempt to trick Australians into downloading malicious trojans, according to global security vendor ...
McAfee boosts management team 

McAfee boosts management team

McAfee has announced three new editions to its senior management team.
Symantec and VeriSign team up to push better authentication 

Symantec and VeriSign team up to push better authentication

Two of the information security market's biggest vendors announced this week in the US that they are teaming up to fight identity theft and fraud.
Yahoo, Symantec team up on web security 

Yahoo, Symantec team up on web security

Yahoo and Symantec are expanding on a previous partnership to offer new security services to Yahoo customers.
IT leaders team up to lobby Congress for privacy law 

IT leaders team up to lobby Congress for privacy law

Twelve IT industry leaders, including Microsoft, Symantec and Oracle, have joined forces to form the Consumer Privacy Legislative (CPL) Forum, which will lobby for a detailed ...
Israeli court to jail husband and wife trojan team 

Israeli court to jail husband and wife trojan team

A married couple is to be jailed for developing and selling an industrial espionage spyware trojan that helped private investigators spy on their clients' competitors.
Best Security Team 

Best Security Team

Winner: Barclays Capital Information Risk Management Team
Community banks team up with Microsoft 

Community banks team up with Microsoft

Microsoft and the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) have joined forces to help community banks improve their information security practices.
Husband and wife trojan team indicted  

Husband and wife trojan team indicted

Two Israeli individuals alleged to have developed an industrial espionage trojan that helped companies spy on their competitors were indicted this weekend in the Tel Aviv ...
IT security giants team up to solve spyware 

IT security giants team up to solve spyware

In a bid to combat the growing menace of spyware, IT security giants McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, ICSA Labs and Thompson Cyber Security Labs Unite have teamed up to define ...
Industry, law enforcement must team up to stop breaches 

Industry, law enforcement must team up to stop breaches

Government agencies, financial services companies, data aggregators, and other firms must do a better job combatting identity theft, according to an IT industry group.
Industry and law enforcement team up to fight phishing 

Industry and law enforcement team up to fight phishing

Tech firms have joined with ISPs, banks and law enforcement in a new effort designed to fight phishing.
Intel & MIT team up for web trust 

Intel & MIT team up for web trust

Chipmaker Intel and the MIT Sloan Center for eBusiness have teamed up to create an online system that increases trust between a web site and its customers.
MessageLabs and Symantec team up against spam 

MessageLabs and Symantec team up against spam

MessageLabs plans to incorporate Symantec's Brightmail Anti-Spam technology into its managed anti-spam service.
Microsoft and SAFLINK team up on homeland security 

Microsoft and SAFLINK team up on homeland security

Microsoft and SAFLINK on Wednesday announced a partnership to develop homeland security solutions.
IBM and MessageLabs team up 

IBM and MessageLabs team up

Email security services firm MessageLabs and IBM Global Services are joining forces to offer anti-spam, anti-virus, and image filtering services to businesses.
Protocom and Carefx team up 

Protocom and Carefx team up

Single sign-on firm Protocom has partnered with healthtcare IT solutions firm Carefx.
IBM & Cisco team up on IT security 

IBM & Cisco team up on IT security

IBM and Cisco have linked up to offer a range of IT security solutions.
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