Magnus Olssen, senior engineer at Ericsson told silicon.com: "Handsets with downloading facilities are open for viruses if the gateway of an operator is not accurately protected. Tim Wright, principal engineer at Vodafone, says most operators have...
The installer requires that the user accept two end-user agreements that contain the following text, among other legalese: "As part of the installation process, Permissioned Media will access your MicroSoft(r) (sic) Outlook(r) Contacts list and...
Some of the UK's leading companies are inadequately protected from IT disasters, according to a survey of FTSE100 firms. The most common suffered by respondents included hardware failure (22 per cent), utilities failure (18 per cent) followed by...
The announcement is the latest result of the detailed scrutiny applied by the technical community to Sony's copy-protected CDs, after a string of serious security issues were found to be associated with the label's anti-piracy efforts.
Moreover, it found the vast majority (98 per cent) of IT managers believe their technology and security processes are adequate, while more than half (53 per cent) believe their company is very well protected against security threats.
Two password-protected CDs containing the child benefit information were sent unrecorded and unregistered by a junior HMRC official through courier TNT to the National Audit Office on 18 October but never arrived and have not been found.