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E-MAIL CAN POSSIBLY BE TOUTED as the one of the best inventions as far as the business community is concerned. Having given us an edge on narrowing the time-space continuum, e-mails have become the most pervasive form of communication today.

It is however, not without perils. E-mail security has always been a major concern to organisations because they usually contain the most prized possession – information.

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Tags: email+security, online+security

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On-site technical support is, as the majority of IT staff will happily tell you, a succession of running battles at the best of times, without the input of unwelcome surprises.

Yet, over the past few years, the market has seen an explosion in the number of USB flash memory sticks in people’s possession. Where once they were a nice gadget, a flashy accessory, they’ve increasingly become a day-to-day storage solution that a greater number of people are relying on.

Part of the reason for this explosion in ownership and use is cost. Even corner shops have been known to have a 1GB stick on sale, rarely costing more than a tenner or so. In fact, one British stationary chain was selling a five pack of 1Gb sticks for £20 this past weekend.

Then there’s the fact that modern computers universally accept them, in the vast majority of cases not even demanding a driver installation to do so. But the other factor is the sheer convenience of carrying everything round, be it pictures, work, large presentations or whatever, on something that laughs at the physical size of an optical disc.

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Tags: usb+flash+memory, thumb+drive

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Gary McKinnon’s fight against extradition to the US for hacking into military computers has focused attention on ‘Black Hat’ hackers and cyber criminals – those who attack computer systems for malicious reasons such as terrorism, vandalism or financial gain.

Here is a list of some of the most well-known such individuals and their work, which offers insight into the many ways computer systems can be breached. But it is important to remember that many of them don’t follow the current trend in hacking for financial gain, and this just describes the individuals who got caught…

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San Francisco – The new version of the Firefox browser was downloaded over 8 million times in its first 24 hours of release in what organizers claimed was a world record. But the success was tempered by reports from a software security company that Firefox 3.0 contained a serious security flaw that potentially lets an attacker take over a PC if a user clicks on a booby-trapped link.

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Consumers are pointing to themselves as the greatest threat to secure online financial services. A recent survey by global consulting firm Accenture reveals that 88 percent of respondents believe that personal irresponsibility is the top cause of identity theft. Further, nearly half of respondents admit to being careless with their online security by sharing or not properly disposing of personal information.

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"Despite unprecedented growth in the number of cell phone users and the advancement of mobile technologies, telecom providers, online retailers and financial institutions seem unable to convince consumers worldwide that a secure platform exists for conducting online mobile transactions," Tim Kelleher, vice president of enterprise security at Unisys, said in a company statement late Wednesday.

Source: ZDNetAsia.com

Tags: online+mobile+transaction, online+security

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After pornography was discovered on his laptop, a state worker in Massachusetts got fired and had to deal with a smeared reputation and financial fallout. But it has been discovered that his laptop was riddled with malware because the security software wasn’t working. The worker was likely innocent, and criminal carges have been dropped.

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Tags: security+software, malware

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