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Consumers should be extremely wary of buying discounted software or downloading free software from certain dubious Internet sites, according to a report released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

The report, entitled Online Software Scams: A Threat to Your Personal Security, describes the growing scope of the Internet piracy problem, the links to identity theft and other forms of cyber crime, and the steps that are needed to reduce Internet-based piracy. The report comes at the start of National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

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The internet is a wonderful place; many of us use it on a regular basis for a multitude of functions. Email helps us to keep in touch with family, and friends all over the world and most people have at least one email account. The growing use of digital cameras and camera phones means that we can send pictures at the click of a mouse. MP3 players have become increasingly popular, and we can download songs to play on them with extreme ease. All of this is great, and the internet is becoming a big part of our everyday lives.

Akonix Systems, Inc., provider of the most deployed instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products in the world, today published its top five predictions for enterprise IM in 2007.

Akonix predicts the predominant IM concern for companies in 2007 will be a higher level of risk management, encompassing security, compliance, e-discovery and corporate liability for electronic communications:

A worker sends an office colleague an e-mail with a corporate document attached, but the seeming routine message turns out to harbor a malicious passenger, because the attachment contains hidden pornographic images that were inserted by a hacker during it's transmission over the Internet. When the document is opened by a female employee, she files a lawsuit for sexual harassment.

By Steve Hargreaves, CNN/Money -

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Paris Hilton has a problem keeping her personal life personal.

The slinky socialite's latest saga involves highly sensitive details, including phone numbers and personal notes, posted for all to see on the Internet in what could be a case of mobile device hacking.

A spokesman for T-Mobile confirmed earlier reports that information from Paris Hilton's star-studded address book has been posted online.

Having been plagued with e-bugs, Bill and the Boyz say they’ll use intellectual property and technology assets from the acquisition to provide Microsoft Windows customers with new tools to help protect them from the threat of spyware, and other deceptive software.

And, “key personnel from GIANT Company will be joining Microsoft’s security efforts,” says Microsoft.

It’ll make the software available to Windows customers in a, “spyware protection, detection and removal tool, based on the GIANT AntiSpyware product” beta within one month, it promises.

By Larry Seltzer -

When I look back at all the major bad security news in 2004, I wonder how the world's computing infrastructure still manages to get up in the morning. It looks a lot worse in retrospect than it felt while it was going on.

Year of the worm

The year began with several new and successful worms, starting with Bagle. MyDoom and Netsky followed soon after. Most of these worms include a "backdoor" program allowing a remote attacker to take control of the infected system. It's generally assumed that the real purpose of these worms, as with earlier worms such as last year's Sobig, is to provide a platform for spammers and other sociopaths to do their dirty work. Nevertheless, all three brought us some innovation.

By Gregg Keizer -

The spyware plague on both your consumer and corporate houses will trigger a 2,500 percent increase in enterprise spending by 2008, a market-research firm report released Thursday claimed.

According to Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, the need to search out and destroy spyware will drive anti-spyware software revenues from $12 million in 2003, to $31 million in 2004, to $305 million in 2008. This is great news for vendors already in the space- such as Webroot and Computer Associates-owned PestPatrol--as well as for the anti-virus firms just now entering the marketplace.