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The fourth annual Gartner IT Security Summit kicks off this month and SC met with Andrew Walls, Gartner's local security analyst, for a sneak peak at the event's hot topics. A new report from the UK National Audit Office has found that 70 percent of central Government departments are risking their own security by failing to ensure that sensitive data is being wiped from PCs before being disposed of, according to mobile encryption oufit, SafeBoot. The South Korean defence industry is facing a hacking risk after malicious codes were found in its major computer systems. As many as 50,000 personnel records at risk from Uk's Royal Airforce security
breach. Security experts are warning users of a high risk of phishing operations connected to Hurricane Gustav. When facing up to a data breach, first contain it then evaluate the associated risk, says the Office of the Privacy Commissioner which released a new guide on handling breaches, today. The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) interface is highly vulnerable to use by hackers seeking to modify home router settings -- such as choice of DNS server -- from an external location, researchers warned. The recent rash of high profile security breaches, data loss incidents and associated fraud highlights the fact that the security industry is failing to meet the threats. Three out of four financial institutions at risk, claims report. Small and medium sized enterprises are putting themselves at risk by not properly securing their wireless networks, a new report has claimed. Millions of computers with registered copies of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) are at risk to a variety of attacks via a vulnerability in AIM 6.1, AIM beta 6.2, AIM Pro and AIM Lite, according to researchers at Core Security. A controversial planned government database to record all attributes of UK children's lives could actually put youngsters in more danger, a report from the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) warned today. Mastercard announced this week that the so-called "Cyber Monday" is a myth, but information security experts are still warning to businesses to keep an eye on their employees as they begin their online shopping en masse. There are three key objectives to keep in mind for determining the success of any roles-based access and identity management initiative, says Deepak Taneja. Identity theft has become a multi-billion dollar issue that continues to accelerate, and protecting against it has become a multi-million dollar business, says Deloitte's Mark Steinhoff. Software mashups will increasingly be used to develop commercial products, but securing the transactions will require new ways of identifying and managing the risks. Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is placing many systems at risk of attack because networking software has IPv6 enabled but users don't know it, warns a security researcher. Tennis fans at risk as hackers infect official tennis website with malicious code during this week's Wimbledon tournament. A new type of threat has emerged that poses a significant risk to businesses - this threat is real. There are examples of it in the news. There are security experts who are warning against the risk. So why are most companies ignoring it? Peer to peer technology (P2P) has been described as the “new national security risk” by a retired general at a recent Government Reform Committee hearing.