5 indispensable IT skills of the future

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• 5 indispensable IT skills of the future
• Facial recognition software being made publicly available
• Google Street View cars back too soon, says French watchdog
• Avoid Your Business Being Collateral Damage in a Cyber War
• Microsoft won't patch critical DLL loading bugs
• Vote Pac-Man 2012! Hack Puts Pac-Man on Voting Machine
• Researcher told Microsoft of Windows apps zero-day bugs 6 months ago
• Baidu sues Chinese security company
• Trojan blamed for Spanish air crash
• Ready or not, cloud is coming
• SOPHOSticated advice about safe Web browsing

5 indispensable IT skills of the future Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT In the year 2020, technical expertise will no longer be the sole province of the IT department. Employees throughout the organization will understand how to use technology to do their jobs.

Facial recognition software being made publicly available Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT A new program that will scan a face and then trawl the web for photographs of that person is to be made publicly available.

Google Street View cars back too soon, says French watchdog Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Google said its Street View cars resumed their photography of French streets on Friday, annoying the French data protection authority, which launched an investigation into the privacy implications of the service earlier this year.

Avoid Your Business Being Collateral Damage in a Cyber War Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT All around the world, governments declare they are gearing up for cyber war. I know, I know, to anyone who has been at this for any significant length of time, many of the news stories we are reading today could have, or should have, been written a decade ago, or more. The term "Cyber war" seems to be on everyone's lips again. (Cue the theme music for "Groundhog Day" - again!) In one way, it is hard to take it seriously anymore; in another way, it is incredible that so many governments sound like they are just getting started, again. Nevertheless, even though the chest-beating seems to be a redux, and much of the blustering rhetoric seems to be recycled, the reality on the virtual ground in cyber space is that the capabilities (the offensive ones, at least) have evolved over the last decade, and so have the opportunities. Furthermore, the appetite to use them seems to have grown apace.

Microsoft won't patch critical DLL loading bugs Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT MIcrosoft has told a researcher that it won't patch a problem that has left scores of Windows applications open to attack.

Vote Pac-Man 2012! Hack Puts Pac-Man on Voting Machine Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Remember all the controversy over electronic voting machines? Well, prepare to be paranoid once again. Researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University managed to hack a touch-screen direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine called the Sequoia AVC Edge to run Pac-Man, reminding me why I didn't trust electronic voting machines in the first place.

Researcher told Microsoft of Windows apps zero-day bugs 6 months ago Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Microsoft has known since at least February that dozens of Windows applications harbor bugs that hackers can exploit to seize control of computers, an academic researcher said.

Baidu sues Chinese security company Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Baidu, operator of China's largest search engine, is suing domestic security vendor 360 for unfair competition alleging a version of 360's security software flags both Baidu Toolbar and Baidu Address Bar as malware.

Trojan blamed for Spanish air crash Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT A plane crash that killed 154 people in 2008 might have been partly connected to the infection of an important ground safety system by malware, a Spanish newspaper has claimed.

Ready or not, cloud is coming Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Regardless of whether you are a cheerleader or a naysayer, the fact is the pieces for cloud computing are coalescing rapidly. This stuff isn't vaporware. Our tests of cloud services – the third of which appears in this issue -- show a rich and growing list of capabilities.

SOPHOSticated advice about safe Web browsing Posted: 23 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT How do we convince busy colleagues to pay attention to security?

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