From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Sat 28 Oct 2006 - 09:49:32 GMT
Edupage - TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2006
Intel to Shutter Cambridge Research Center
More Britons Say No to Technology
Microsoft Says Half of Windows Computers Have Trojans
MORE BRITONS SAY NO TO TECHNOLOGY
New research from Point Topic indicates that as many as 44 percent of
households in the United Kingdom lack Internet access and that 70
percent of those who do not have access do not intend to get it. This
compares to 50 percent in 2005 who said they would not get access.
Katja Mueller, chief analyst for Point Topic, said, "As the number of
non-access households shrinks, those that are left are increasingly
resistant to its appeal." One result of this dynamic, she noted, could
be a growing digital divide separating those with access and those
without. When asked whether they would be more likely to be connected
if financial and skills barriers were eliminated, many Britons still
expressed doubt. Emily Turberville-Tully, communication manager for
Citizens Online, a nonprofit that investigates issues of technology
access, said, "We are finding that people just don't see the relevance
[of the Internet] to their lives." Unless those people can be convinced
that the Internet will benefit them, they are unlikely to want to be
connected, she said.
BBC, 26 October 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6085412.stm
MICROSOFT SAYS HALF OF WINDOWS COMPUTERS HAVE TROJANS
According to data collected by Microsoft's Windows Malicious Software
Removal Tool during the first half of 2006, nearly half of the PCs
using the tool were infected with a backdoor Trojan, which allows a
hacker to remotely manipulate the computer. Such "zombie" machines are
used in distributed denial of service attacks, and, according to the
company's Security Intelligence Report, "Attackers ... are clearly
concentrating a significant amount of development focus on this
category of malware." The current estimate of almost 50 percent
infection for backdoor Trojans represents a decrease from last year's
estimate of 68 percent, but Ross Brown, CEO of eEye Digital Security,
said that most consumers remain unaware of the problem. Meanwhile, the
incidence of infection by rootkits fell during the same six-month
period by 50 percent, according to Microsoft's data.
Internet News, 26 October 2006
http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3640216
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