Symantec Chief Executive Officer John Thompson says his company's US$13.5 billion acquisition of Veritas Software is moving ahead, with the merged company set to offer enterprises a "holistic" grouping of integrated products to more easily deal with issues of security, data backup, and compliance.

Infosecurity SystemExperts, a security consultancy in Sudbury, Mass., reviewed its clients' experiences to cite these information security trends for 2005

Despite the worldwide attention given to the threat of virus infection on mobile phones little has actually happened in Australia - even the antivirus vendors are currently labelling them as 'proof of concept'.

Some of the most popular anti-virus scanners on the market are open to exploitation according to a security researcher.

Microsoft Windows users infected last week by the W32.Blaster worm might appreciate the attention of a new version of that worm that cleans corrupted systems, then installs a software patch to prevent future infections.

Security managers are starting to provide employees basic protection for their home PCs, as well as evaluating what other types of security products are necessary to keep all clients safe.

Microsoft is expanding its security business unit with a group that will establish new software development processes and create tools for its programmers so that future Microsoft products will have fewer security flaws.

Dealing with a distributed denial-of-service attack such as the one that took down The SCO Group's Web site last week continues to be a major challenge for companies, security experts said. But several options are available to at least help alleviate the pain for those that become targets.

The list of all-too-familiar names - Nachi, Klez, Lovsan, SoBig, BugBear, Swen, Blaster and Yaha - represents only a sampling of the most prevalent worms and viruses that slithered into corporate networks this fall. But they all have one thing in common: Patches were readily available before most damage had been done. So why do these intruders continue to wreak such havoc?

Internet security companies said Monday that they discovered a new version of the MyDoom e-mail worm circulating on the Internet.

Symantec has unveiled new versions of its Norton security products--beefing up some of the real-time and automated features--and will release them in the next few weeks.

A new version of the Sasser Internet worm, Sasser-F, appeared on Monday, despite claims by German authorities to have arrested the sole author of that worm on Friday.

Just how useful is the Common Malware Enumeration (CME) initiative debuted by U.S.-CERT this autumn?

A company looking to beef up the security of its wireless operations should start with its own policies and standards, according to Ken Newman, director of security and risk management at Deutsche Bank AG.

A mass e-mail purportedly from the FBI is circulating online, carrying with it an attachment that contains a variant of the Sober computer virus.