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Sophos urges users not to click on suspicious email attachments from unknown sources

Talk to most IT suppliers and they are determined to tell you what they are – the biggest, best or most successful of their kind.

A large and growing list of applications appear to be vulnerable to a Dynamic-Link Library (DLL) hijacking exploit, prompting Microsoft to issue a security advisory.

A survey conducted among IT professionals and hackers at last month’s DEF CON reveals concerns over cloud vendor security, and an opportunity for hackers.

The UK ranked 30th in the most dangerous places to surf the web across the globe, according to research by internet security firm AVG.

Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust lost a CD containing the unencrypted records of 112 patients from the intensive care unit of New Cross Hospital's heart and lung unit, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found.

Lost passwords are the biggest headache for IT helpdesks, according to a survey by Diskeeper and research firm Vanson Bourne.

Zurich Insurance UK has been fined £2.275m by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for not having the controls to prevent the loss of confidential personal data of 46 000 customers.

Czech IT security vendor Avast, which is quietly carving a name for itself in the 'freemium' anti-virus stakes, has secured a significant $100 million investment from Summit Partners, an equity investment firm, for future growth.

It seems that industry experts are starting to agree that the IT security industry is struggling to tackle the rising tide of malware and hacker exploits.

A Conneticut-based firm in the US has developed a WiFi-friendly VPN application/service that uses 128-bit encryption to protect users' data, routing IP data calls through its own servers and on to the public internet.

Adobe has released an out-of-band security update for its Reader and Acrobat products for Windows, Mac OS and Unix.

Reports are coming in that a Spanair plane crash in 2008, in which 154 people died, may have been caused by trojans and similar malware. If true, this could be one of the first links to malware causing a major loss of life.

In a move that will have iPhone owners more than a little concerned, Apple has reportedly applied for a patent on a technology designed to identify when an iPhone smartphone has been jailbroken.

Research carried out by the Georgia Institute of Technology has confirmed what many IT security professionals have suspected for some time – that eight character passwords are no longer enough to keep the serious hackers at bay.