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Network agrees to lock down friend lists. Blueprint details leak two days before launch. Users can customise audience for certain content. P2P networks to blame. Scammers and phishers run riot. Maintaining control of data is now a greater challange than ever, but there are solutions, as Symantec Pacific vice-president Craig Scroggie explains. A series of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against popular social media sites appear to have stopped after causing hours of mayhem. Call for mass media education campaign. Identity and access management (IAM) is at the heart of corporate security, a difficult task with potential for great savings, as Mark Mayne explains. Over a third of IT staff have used their administration rights to access privileged information about employees, customers and their company for personal reasons, according to a recent survey by Cyber-Ark. If you have a problem with your staff or students installing unauthorised applications, or your network is groaning under malware, Colonel Joe Adams from the United States Military Academy at West Point has a solution - but it's one your users probably won't enjoy. After last year's big breaches, new laws on handling confidential data won't be far off, so get ready now. Following the UK government’s decision to ban the removal of un-encrypted laptops from government buildings, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis is urging organisations to conduct risk assessments to determine whether their stored data requires encryption security. The UK government has banned laptops leaving government buildings unless the contents are encrypted. A group of developers claims to have succeeded in breaking the iPhone's SIM-lock, allowing users to equip the phone with a SIM-card that allows them to operate the device on GSM networks other than AT&T. Virtualisation is a technology whose time has come, and many of the primary problems in deploying a virtualised environment can be solved with proper planning, as Chuck Miller explains. Unchecked power, often in the form of access rights and privileges, can lead to damaging security incidents in any organisation. To avoid hacking and malicious alteration of the application, software companies are turning to new anti-tamper solutions that will protect the entire application, as well as maintain code integrity. Reports of the Conficker worm are being vastly exaggerated and it will not have as big an impact as is being predicted, according to a researcher. Pirated microchips based on stolen blueprints could soon be a thing of the past thanks to computer engineers at Rice University and the University of Michigan.