Data collection: Mobile phones provide new ways to gather information, both manually and automatically, over wide areas
IF YOUR mobile phone could talk, it could reveal a great deal. Obviously it would know many of your innermost secrets, being privy to your calls and text messages, and possibly your e-mail and diary, too. It also knows where you have been, how you get to work, where you like to go for lunch, what time you got home, and where you like to go at the weekend. Now imagine being able to …

By Maggie Shiels
Twelve million computers have been hijacked by cyber-criminals and detected by security vendor McAfee since January, the firm has said.
It reports there has been a 50% increase in the number of detected so-called “zombie” computers since 2008.
The true number of newly hijacked PCs is likely to be higher than those detected by McAfee alone.
The figures come as a report from Deloitte said a global approach to cyber-security was needed.
“Doing nothing is not an option,” said Deloitte’s Greg Pellegrino.
Everything that depended on cyberspace face unprecedented risks, said Deloitte Touche …

This Islamic country, located in the mountainous region neighboring to the Central Asia and the Middle East, is the sixth most populous country in the world and has the second largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia. That is Pakistan. The country is listed among the “Next Eleven” economies that means it’s among eleven countries, such as Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, The Philippines, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam, identified by Goldman Sachs investment bank as having a high potential of becoming the world’s largest economies in …

The only way to stop fraudsters stealing information from old computer hard drives is by destroying them completely, a study has found.
Which? Computing magazine recovered 22,000 “deleted” files from eight computers purchased on eBay.
Freely available software can be used to recover files that users think they have permanently deleted.
While Which? recommends smashing hard drives with a hammer, experts say for most consumers that’s a step too far.
Criminals source old computers from internet auction sites or in rubbish tips, to find users’ valuable details, and a number of recent cases have …

Frozen credit markets present an opportunity for some
INNOVATION is a dirty word in finance these days but, with securitisation markets gummed up, fresh thinking may be just what credit markets need. Prosper and DebtX, two online marketplaces with very different customers, are among those who think they stand to gain.
Prosper’s principal business is as an online peer-to-peer lender, matching up individual borrowers and lenders. Since October, Prosper has been dormant as it goes through registration with America’s Securities and Exchange Commission. But on April 28th, thanks to special dispensation from …