Vigilance can reveal that a recent survey by the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) has revealed that 98% of members who provide the BSIA with feedback feel that it is taken on board and responded to accordingly.
During his official visit to Tokyo, Prime Minister David Cameron renewed the UK’s commitment to signing a Defence Cooperation Memorandum with Japan in the near future.
At the meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, the Prime Minister agreed that their respective Defence Ministers would sign the Memorandum next time they met. In parallel, officials will be discussing a range of defence programmes that present industrial opportunities for both the UK and Japan.
The mobile phone is unrecognisable in comparison to its original ‘brick’ form of the 80s. Instead of a ‘yuppie’ status symbol, now it’s considered by many as a necessity with practically every handbag and pocket hiding these modern miracles of technology. While battery life used to be considered the key feature, today it’s a heady mix of memory capacity, browser speeds, megapixels, touch screen quality, HD ability, playback, sleek design and available apps. Hardly anyone thinks about how secure the device is when making that all important decision between Apple, Blackberry or Android.
AlienVault has discovered a family of weaponised doc (MS-Office) files - in the wild - that are targeting the Apple Mac platform, which the company says is highly unusual given the low incidence of Apple Mac vulnerabilities. See the Jaime Blasco blog at http://tinyurl.com/brhjobt
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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