Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology goes mainstream. Long used for pirating files, US distributors follow the UK’s lead and begin to utilize next-generation, secure and DRM-protected P2P for mobile content distribution.

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Perpetrators act as a ‘man in the browser’ by intercepting HTML code in the Web browser. As bank security measures curb more traditional threats such as keystroke logging, phishing and pharming, F-Secure warned, the ‘man in the browser’ attack will increase.

That’s why, despite repeated recommendations not to do so, people typically write down their user names and passwords or recycle them from one site to the next. That means that if a thief gets hold of the list, or your core password…

When the survery respondents had their computers scanned by the NCSA, the results indicated that 94% had anti-virus, only 55% had antispyware and 81% had a firewall – but only 64% had their firewall enabled!

Even worse – only 51% of anti-virus owners had their software totally up-to-date – the rest had outdated ‘antivirus definitions’ and other updates by month or more, resulting in very little real protection against the latest threats.