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Companies need to take steps to protect themselves from “very serious security threats” which will be posed by MP3 players received as Christmas presents being brought into workplaces next year, security experts warned. Almost half of European IT directors believe VoIP networks are “inherently insecure”, with the figure rising to 56 percent among computing professionals working in the financial sector, newly published research has claimed. Microsoft has called on the US government to implement a "comprehensive legislative approach" to the issue of data privacy. Security experts have slammed unprincipled spammers for putting the lives of innocent people at risk by peddling bogus drugs online that claim to combat bird flu. Spammers are switching from the hard sell to scaring the wits out of unsuspecting people, according to new research. Back in 2003 Gartner declared Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) as dead. Whether this is true, it is an increasing reality that intrusion protection or prevention systems are increasingly becoming a part of many company's networks. While IDS may be waning, IPS (Intrusion Protection Systems) are on the up, yet there is still a pervasive feeling that such technology can cause a network to break or malfunction. Fear of bad publicity and brand depreciation is allowing criminals to get away with cyber crime, it has been revealed. Pleasing investors matters just as much as pleasing the board, says Richard Menta

Unlike some of the other software vendors in this review, Eset only sent in software to run on one workstation, so that although it does provide centralized administration software facilities, we were unable to evaluate them.

Security fears are actively hampering the adoption of new technologies in businesses, Bill Gates said in his opening keynote at the Microsoft IT Forum '04 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Although security fears continue to hold back Wireless local area network (WLAN) deployments, the technology is slowly becoming established as a mainstream enterprise solution, according to industry analysts. The U.S. government is pushing through a bill to tackle spyware, but will it really help? David Bicknell explains just what the threat is, and what enterprises can do to protect themselves A 39-year-old British hacker charged with breaching military networks has vowed to fight his extradition to the U.S. Google refuted rumors it was hacked on Sunday, following a 15 minute downtime. A $25,000 hunt for the first Mac OS X virus has been cancelled, by the company that initiated it. Following yesterday’s news that a competition to infect two G5 PowerMac computers running Mac OS X with a virus had been shelved, the Mac community has reacted angrily to what it sees as a publicity stunt. Stressed? Worried? Can’t sleep at night? Lorne Boden explains his seven golden rules of risk management The Madrid train bombs have raised fears that it is only a matter of when – rather than if – there will be a serious terrorist incident elsewhere. For my own part, I honestly believe that one will happen within two years – and that it will have a massive impact on how business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) is viewed in this country. Internet users are changing their online behavior because of fears about identity theft and fraud. The scene is set in a dark and gothic basement, somewhere in Russia apparently. Amid the clicking of a keyboard the following chilling statement of intent can be heard; “Let’s see what an application that simultaneously opens up 1000 windows does to a smartphone today, da? Mwahahaha, er, ha!” (Cue bolt of lightning).