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The Malaysian government is to adopt open source software for its offices. The U.S. is still the world’s top spammer nation, according to a survey published today, but it is now close to losing that dubious distinction to China. Five countries are hosting 99.68 per cent of spammer websites, according to new research. Spam is a monumentally irritating and expensive problem for corporate and home users. Absolutely no one is immune. While there is slim hope for a silver bullet, Andy Coote explains what is being done to combat spam This month we are tackling the issue of junk mail and spam. While unsolicited advertising is annoying, it has become the CSO’s problem as HR departments face off with users who receive offensive messages, business services grind to a halt, and outright scams grow in number. The Taiwanese media has reported that Chinese hackers have infiltrated classified data of Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-Bian. Think what the world of IT was like in 1990. A few lucky researchers, military personnel, government workers and assorted hangers-on would have been able to enjoy the novelty of fledgling email and internet services. If you were a forward-thinking large corporate, you might well have a mainframe or a minicomputer network storing and processing crucial data and, although dial-up modems could connect systems to each other and enable remote terminal access, viruses and hack-attacks were minor worries. The occasional infected floppy disc might contain some malware that could potentially compromise the contents of your expensive 40mb hard drive, but a relatively up-to-date antivirus programme would probably protect you. Hackers and virus writers were mostly a minority sub-culture of cyber-kids operating from their bedrooms bragging and swapping war stories on underground bulletin boards. America is churning out over fifty per cent of the world's spam. Cyberattacks are not only coming from diverse parts of the world, but, compared to years past, they are hitting their targets more and more frequently these days. Sitting in a hotel room in San Jose, California, I found my interest turn to the local NBC news broadcast when the anchor asked viewers if they thought they were safe wandering cyberspace. Digital attacks often mirror attacks in the real world. Illena Armstrong asks if they are inevitable and how to respond. Piracy on the high seas has been a flourishing business for many centuries. "The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable." Sun Tzu, The Art of War Chinese internet users account for around 20 percent of the world's zombies according to a new report from email security company CipherTrust. Chinese phishing websites have rocketed in the last year, with 223 reported in 2004 according to a new report. China has moved to block internet users in that country from using Skype, the popular Voice over IP (VoIP) application. China, the country with the second-biggest spam problem worldwide, will have anti-spam legislation “within weeks”, according to the UK Government. China has formerly agreed to tackle unsolicited mail by signing up to the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration.

Guardware produces a variety of innovative products, all of which have been well received. It was interesting, therefore, to see a keyboard product with integral fingerprint reader from this Hungarian company (although the keyboard is actually made in China).

The Chinese government has indefinitely postponed the deadline to ban foreign wireless technology standards in its country.