When this case was originally revealed ISB chose not to comment because very few actual facts were available at the time and speculation abounded in all kinds of media. Now, however, more facts have emerged and a short article may be in place.

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IT security and control firm Sophos is warning businesses of the security and productivity risks of allowing counterfeit software programs to run on their company networks following research from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) that revealed that more than a third of PCs worldwide are running pirated software.

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Breach Security, Inc. has announced the first results of the Web Application Security Consortium's (WASC) new Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project. The Honeypot Project is capturing live web attack data with sensors placed around the world to provide concrete examples of the types of attacks occurring "in the wild," in addition to raising awareness and developing effective countermeasures to new threats. Since January, the Honeypot Project has logged nearly one million web requests.

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The Warezov variant worm has returned once more to dominate the malware charts, according to managed security company Network Box. During April, the companys security responses blocked more than four million viruses, worms and Trojans daily, with two Warezov variants accounting for more than 30 per cent of all worms.

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NTA Monitor's 2007 Annual Security Report has revealed that 32 per cent of UK organisations tested had critical vulnerabilities that are widely known and actively exploited by hackers, compared to 61 per cent in 2006, indicating that companies have improved their security posture in the last year.

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According to ESET, unlike the fairly broad threat profile for March, April showed renewed vigour among new threats, with the top five representing nearly 14 per cent of all threat activity for the month.

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Warwick Business School and Networks First develop online Network Downtime Calculator

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A Training Camp survey of over 1,400 people found that over half (53 per cent) had not received clear instructions on how to respond in the event of a network security breach.

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Warezov and Zhelatin regularly cause virus outbreaks, hit the headlines, and create a huge amount of work for virus labs around the world, but it's NetSky.t, an old email worm, which grabbed first place this month.

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Even though the amount of viruses that SoftScan has stopped in the last thirty days has increased dramatically, generally overall there has been little change in spam and virus activity. Rather than an increase in virus activity, the rise in the percentage of traffic identified as malware is due to yet more email messages being identified as phishing, rather than spam. However, the change does indicate the increasing threat that phishing emails pose to end-users.

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