Summary: Some recent news on the subject of security

● Gumblar Trojan vanishes suddenly yet again

A prolific variant of the Gumblar Trojan has performed another vanishing act, disappearing suddenly from malware figures gathered by Kaspersky Lab.

● Attack Tactic Circumvents Windows Security Software (also here)

A just-published attack tactic that bypasses the security protections of most current antivirus software is a "very serious" problem, an executive at one unaffected company said today.

● Virus warning to HR Departments

A new round of targeted malware emails has been seen in the past few hours. HR teams should not open emails purportedly containing unrequested resumes.

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At the time of writing, the VirusTotal website reports that 22 out of 41 AV products will correctly identify the malware - expect the remainder to be covered within the next 24 hours.

● SteelEye’s Dave Bermingham Honored with Microsoft MVP Award (SteelEye has had a relationship with Novell since years ago. James Bottomley used to be the CTO of SteelEye Technology and now he works for Novell)

SteelEye Technology, Inc. (steeleye.com), a leading provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi-vendor IT infrastructures, today announced that Dave Bermingham, director of product management, received the Microsoft MVP Award for his work in the cluster technical community.