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Spyware threat expanding, expert warns

News And yet too many organisations are failing to properly educate or protect their employees, one expert says. Spyware is becoming increasingly pernicious and sophisticated, according to security experts who are warning that users are still failing to...

12 October 2005, 9:53

DRM ineffective, says security expert

News A security expert who once worked for Microsoft has said he may dump the company's Windows Media Center in favor of Ubuntu-affiliated LinuxMCE after struggling with the software giant's digital-rights management software.

Tags: windows vista, industry, problem, material

28 September 2007, 10:51

Robocop on the beat by 2084?

News Robocop will become a reality within the next 75 years according to a top UK robotics expert. Abusive drunks or knife-wielding thugs can expect to feel a metallic hand of the law on their shoulder in 2084, according to robotics expert professor...

Tags: human, expert, bank, cars

14 August 2008, 10:06

Security guru slams the misuse of 'cyberterrorism'

News An Internet security expert told conference attendees on Tuesday to use the term 'cyberterrorism' properly -- and played down the spread of government-sponsored hacking. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London, the renowned author...

27 April 2005, 15:31

Professor warns of terrorist robots

News Forget the cuddly C-3P0 and R2D2 -- the robots of the future may well share the murderous instincts of the Daleks, according to a robotics expert. The expert at the University of Sheffield -- who was formerly a judge on cult BBC TV show Robot Wars...

Tags: international, machines, weapons, robot

29 February 2008, 8:57

Will Vista jam the Net?

News Nevertheless, an eye should be kept on bottlenecks such as DNS forwarders, name servers at ISPs that handle queries from thousands of broadband customers, said Cricket Liu, a DNS expert and vice president of architecture at DNS appliance maker...

7 September 2006, 10:40

Google invites 400 to secret event

News Google is planning a partner forum for about 400 people, including bloggers and journalists from major media outlets, and is prohibiting participants from writing about it, a search engine industry expert has discovered.

20 September 2005, 10:13

To MMO or not to MMO...

News But bridging the gap between them is exactly what Edward Castronova, an associate professor of telecommunications at Indiana University and the leading expert on the economies of virtual worlds, is doing.

20 October 2006, 12:19

Bots could be cloaked by encryption

News In their quest to retain control of hijacked PCs, cybercriminals will add encryption to their malicious software to avoid detection and removal, one expert predicted on Monday. In the near future, bots will include encryption to hide their presence...

15 November 2005, 9:03

Users get more creative with passwords

News A sample of login information from 34,000 MySpace members seems to implicate that Internet users are getting better at picking more secure passwords, according to a prominent security expert. The average password is eight characters long and 81 per...

18 December 2006, 11:19

Cyberterror 'overhyped', security guru says

News Fears of cyberterror could actually hurt IT security, a threats expert has asserted. Bruce Schneier, who has written several books on security and is the founder of Counterpane Internet Security, told CNET.co.uk's sister site ZDNet UK that...

24 November 2005, 8:47

Former fraudster knocks ID cards

News The Home Office has defended the ID cards scheme after security expert Frank Abagnale -- a one-time confidence trickster made famous by the Steven Spielberg film, Catch Me If You Can -- said the scheme should be scrapped if the government cannot...

Tags: person, identity, scheme, buildings

26 October 2007, 9:39

Can IE7 stop phishing for good?

News That's according to a leading Web security expert who says functionality built into Internet Explorer 7 could shutter fraudulent Web sites within 18 months. Phishing could soon be a thing of the past and the credit may have to go to Microsoft.

30 October 2006, 10:19

Nike+iPod exposed as tracking device

News Security expert Bruce Schneier has highlighted privacy concerns around the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, a technology that lets people track time and other statistics while running. He drew attention to a demonstration by researchers at the University of...

14 December 2006, 10:32

Mobile phone virus claims first corporate victim

News F-Secure security expert Patrick Runald said on Tuesday that an outbreak of the Commwarrior.B virus occured at an unnamed Scandinavian company last Wednesday. The first serious outbreak of a mobile-phone virus in a company has been detected...

1 September 2005, 10:05