Thousands of whistle-blowers have had their personal information made public, following a breach in the police's IT security.
Microsoft's Digital Crime Unit aims to protect businesses and individuals against cyber crime by understanding how adversaries operate.
The malware propagates itself on a system, forcing victims to part ways with their information and/or money, says Cyberoam.
Lack of management approval, lack of training and support, and cost prevent businesses from adopting security development processes, says Microsoft.
Conformity to ISO 27034-1 means software developed using Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle is more secure and less vulnerable to exploits.
The two-day event will teach delegates about proven security development practices through keynotes, sessions and interactions with peers.
After a small overall rise in unsolicited global e-mail traffic, spammers are now using old methods to defeat content-based filters, says Kaspersky Lab.
Failure to discover breaches is getting worse and has a meaningful impact on the cost of those breaches, says HP.
There was a 42% increase in targeted attacks during 2012 and a 28.6% decrease in spam, says Symantec.
The country witnessed more attacks in 2012 than it did the previous year, says Symantec.
More Trojans are being found on mobile devices than on traditional desktop PCs, says RSA Security.
Cloud is not inherently less safe than the data centre, says Alert Logic.