Feb 28
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
US anti-spyware company Webroot estimates almost one out of every three PCs in SA have some form of spyware on their systems – a claim Standard Bank agrees with. Daniel Mothersdale, Webroot’s marketing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, says according to his company’s research, 27% of PCs in SA have some kind of malicious spyware on them. This is just below the estimated 35% of PCs in the UK.
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Feb 28
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Computer hackers have scored a victory in their battle against Sony and the way the company controls its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld games console. Sony sells its PSP with built-in software, known as firmware, which controls how the console operates. The firmware locks many of the PSP’s capabilities, preventing enthusiasts from writing their own programs, known as homebrew, and running them on the machine. It also limits its ability to play some films which are not bought on special Sony PSP disks.
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Feb 28
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
A security researcher scheduled to present information on issues with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology at the Black Hat Federal conference this week was silenced by security technology giant HID Global, which claimed the presentation would violate its intellectual property. The presentation would have described the technical foundations of RFID technology and demonstrate the security problems with contactless RFID, showing off a device capable of cloning HID cards, said the would-be presenter, Chris Paget, director of research and development for security firm IOActive.
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Feb 28
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
A variant of the Trojan horse attacks known as Storm Worm emerged Monday, targeting people who post blogs and notices to bulletin boards. The new Storm Worm variant attacks the machines of unsuspecting users when they open an e-mail attachment, click on a malicious e-mail link or visit a malicious site, said Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research scientist at Secure Computing.
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Feb 28
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Despite progress on information technology security, agency chief information officers’ top priorities and concerns are still meeting statutory and regulatory requirements, ensuring data is secure while also available to meet mission needs, and facilitating overall network defense. A survey of 47 CIOs at 33 organizations in the executive, legislative and judiciary branches issued today by the IT Association of America found cybersecurity policies, management and training have improved in the past year, but the execution of cybersecurity remains a major challenge.
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