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The report also detailed what hardware and software players were gaining traction.

Surprisingly, Lenovo and Apple were shown to be gaining share of the IT spend, which Dell and HP were losing share.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4646

“Hackers are exploiting Internet auctions, money transfers like Western Union and PayPal, the ability to impersonate lottery and sweepstake contests, and other types of imaginative scams,” said Litan. “They’re going after the weakest links, the consumers using social engineering tactics, and the U.S.’s payment systems at retail and businesses.” “Banks eat the fraud there,” at least for now, said Litan.

A Massachusetts state lawmaker, however, has proposed a bill that would hold retailers financially responsible for breaches. “The retailers are already paying for fraud” in the form of higher interchange charges, Litan said. She offered up examples of how that might be done, including more sophisticated authentication on debit cards and payment processors relying on identity scoring systems that were able to spot thieves using indicators like physical location.

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The majority of cybercriminals in Japan were in their teens and twenties, following the trend from recent years.

The NPA is currently trying to promote public awareness of cybercrime and has so far succeeded in that, which has been highlighted by a significant drop in the number of cybercrime complaints for the first six months of 2006.

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“The increase in spam coming out of the region is likely the result of a newly activated botnet running off computers in Asia”, said Anstis.

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“While there’s still some skepticism out there — security was also cited as one of the top three factors keeping companies from engaging a managed service provider — there are some providers that have reached a kind of ‘trusted advisor’ status, and they are being engaged more and more frequently to deliver security services,” says Richard Rysiewicz, vice president of services at CompTIA.

RSA president Art Coviello announced a few weeks ago that his division will be working with parent company EMC’s professional services division for risk assessment for enterprises. And BT, which acquired MSSP Counterpane last year, is quietly making a major push into large, global enterprises, according to security guru Bruce Schneier, CTO of BT Counterpane.

“It’s not a choice between doing it in-house and doing it out-of-house.”

The trust issue is a plus for Internet Security Systems, the formerly-independent security vendor that now has become IBM’s arm for delivering managed security services.

Tom Noonan, a founder of ISS who now heads up IBM’s security efforts, says that rather than serving as an add-on, security is now driving many outsourcing projects. He says the researchers “were surprised” when security showed up in the top three reasons for selecting a supplier, just behind quality of service and price.

http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=117795&WT.svl=news1_4

The ITM study, sponsored by McAfee, examined in mobile operators’ past experiences, current attitudes and future plans with regards to mobile security.

In line with the growing importance of mobile security to service providers, 85 per cent plan to increase their mobile security budgets to tackle issues including network intrusion, mobile viruses, denial-of-service attacks, spam and mobile phishing (SMiShing).

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