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Some interesting news came over the wire today, the first being Finjan's finding on the rise of crimeware-as-a-service. I guess it's not too surprising, really, seeing that we have security-as-a-service, and I guess with any technology advancement for good, there will also be a technological advancement for bad. Check out the press release yourself right here.

That's really just more confirmation that the cybercriminals are getting more and more organized. And as I live in NYC, I'm glad that's not necessary true of crime on the street (although NYC is pretty darn safe nowadays), I'm real glad I don't have to worry about being stuck-up by remote controlled robots or anything.

The other bit of news I found quite interesting is the report from Quocrica, the European information technology analysis group (which you can read right here), which found that outsourced code is more likely to be hacked (and with 90 percent of companies outsourcing code, that could be a real problem).

And as outsourcing isn't going to go away anytime soon, the one thing companies should be doing but aren't is insisting that security be built right into the product.

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