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Last year saw new threats but some old problems too, as Ron Condon reports A review of the latest Linux source code has revealed it to have far fewer security flaws than commercial software. A California legislator is proposing a ban on state agencies handing out Social Security numbers and other personal data unless required for law enforcement purposes. 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. In the last few months, debate over the ethics of disclosing details of vulnerabilities has been rekindled. Chipmaker Intel and the MIT Sloan Center for eBusiness have teamed up to create an online system that increases trust between a web site and its customers. Malware believed to be the first virus for Sun Microsystem’s StarOffice has been discovered by Kaspersky Lab researchers. Some in the industry have accused the Cyber Security Industry Alliance of being just a ploy to curb government interference. But CSIA’s leader Paul Kurtz insists the group has much wider goals. Tizor Systems has received $3 million in Series A funding to support development of its data-level protection technology and its launch into the market. Security professionals attending the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas this week left with a lot to think and worry about. Earlier this year, researchers in Sweden announced that during a research study, they discovered that bread, potato chips, French fries and even cereal contain high levels of the carcinogen acrylamide. Security firms warned of a spam campaign which pretends that the recipient has won a charitable grant set up to create a living memorial to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. The author of the proof-of-concept Chiton virus family has claimed another first by writing the first virus to attack a Windows 64-bit executable file running on AMD systems. Reports from the Crypto 2004 conference have demonstrated potential attacks against MD5 and SHA hashing algorithms. Spam within the enterprise has undoubtedly evolved from an annoyance to a critical business problem. No approach to spam can work in isolation as unlike viruses, no single technology is able to stem the tide. I believe that by utilising the following top ten techniques an organisation can arm itself successfully against the menace of spam. Seventy per cent of formatted second hand laptops contain retrievable data. An Australian university has discovered a major flaw in wireless standards that, if exploited, can jam wireless networks within five seconds. So-called 'brand spoof' spam scams have increased almost 500 percent since January.