A researcher says media coverage is a key reason why users patch zero-day Microsoft bugs faster, whether they are part of a standard patch Tuesday release or an out-of-band update. read more »
By Rebecca Wanjiku, Computerworld Kenya 26 Mar, 2010
In the 1990s, Africa's richest countries in terms of resources -- Nigeria and Zaire -- had dictators who were pushed out of power, leading to an international publicity campaign to freeze international bank accounts of their families and friends. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 19 Mar, 2010
Malware-tainted memory cards may have ended up on as many as 3,000 HTC Magic phones, a greater number than first suspected, Vodafone said Friday. read more »
By Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor (UK) 9 Mar, 2010
Security questions that allow web users to access their online accounts if they forget their passwords, can easily be answered by hackers, says researchers at the University of Cambridge. read more »
Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats, a Google engineer said at the RSA Conference Thursday. read more »
Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week's RSA Conference. read more »
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service\London Bureau 12 Feb, 2010
Hundreds of millions of payment cards throughout Europe have a flaw that could allow criminals with a stolen card to enter any random PIN to complete a transaction, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge. read more »
Microsoft has stopped distributing a Windows patch thought to cause a Blue Screen of Death on XP machines, and said it is investigating the problem. read more »
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau 12 Feb, 2010
Just weeks after patching a critical flaw, Adobe Systems is rushing out another patch for its Reader and Acrobat software. The company also patched a critical issue in Flash Player Thursday. read more »
The new pastime for governments at different levels in Nigeria is the development of ICT resource centers. It is a pastime that state governments and local councils love to indulge and one that the federal government is not shy to get involved in. read more »
