Spam now accounts for 90.4 percent of all e-mail, according to a report released Monday from security vendor Symantec. This means that 1 out of every 1.1 e-mails is junk. The report also notes that spam shot up 5.1 percent just from April to May.

The denial-of-service attacks launched on Web sites in South Korea and the United States earlier this month appear to have come from a master server in the United Kingdom, according to security researchers in Vietnam.

November's Patch Tuesday promises to be lighter than last month's record. Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Google Dashboard is putting personal data in the hands of users, but most of us won't care enough to exercise this control. Originally posted at The Open Road

Flaw is found in the Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer protocols, which have typically been used online retailers and banks to provide security for Web transactions.

Is the Lose/Lose game a legitimate art project, or should it be flagged as malware because it deletes files? Originally posted at InSecurity Complex

Small and medium-size businesses, governments, and school districts are targets of online bank fraud involving malicious e-mails, key loggers, and money mules, FBI says. Originally posted at InSecurity Complex