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The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown admits something that we knew all along in that the weakest point of secure system are the people who use it! It was reported that mistakes that happened in the most recent loss of tax return information by Atos Origin were “human” and mistakes would happen because people were involved in handling data.

The implications of those remarks are alledgedly quite bad. Those comments are an open invitation to hackers, online criminals and organised crime to redouble their efforts to steal this data according to a security expert.

A well-organized crime gang has stolen credentials for more than a half-million financial accounts in less than three years using a sophisticated trojan that remains undetectable to the vast majority of its victims, a report published Friday warns. (See The Register

A super, invisible trojan is the makings of a Hollywood movie but this is nothing new. It should make one question the last time their PCs were re-installed, better-yet, browsers in virtual machines!