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http://www.wellsphere.com/brain-health-article/hundreds-of-south-african-facebook-profiles-have-been-cloned/1954857 Computer forensics expert Bennie Labuschagne said scammers used programs designed to "deep mine" online accounts to bypass security features."Cloning is very common and it is now like the 419 scams, only on social networks," he said. One of the South African Facebook victims, Dinesh Ramrathan, said yesterday: "A Facebook friend called me to find out why I had sent her a message asking for money online. I then discovered that my page had been duplicated. "My friends were caught off guard and accepted friend requests from the hacker, who then started sending requests for money." The impostor claimed that Ramrathan was in trouble and needed money urgently."I am lucky because all my Facebook friends know me personally outside of the social network so they knew that I was not in trouble," he said. Debby Bonnin's husband received a friend request from her even though they were already Facebook friends. One of sixmillion local users of Facebook, Bonnin said: "My major concern is identity theft and all the possible ramifications of that. On Facebook the prime issue is reputation. But the person behind the false profile could use your identity to access confidential information from your friends and then there could be security or financial problems that arise." Another Facebook user, Josh Delport, said his stored scores and tokens on game applications on the site had disappeared. University of KwaZulu-Natal associate professor of information systems Manoj Maharaj said that, though Facebook could not be hacked because of its hi-tech security features, the affected users might have put themselves at risk by clicking on links to external games, applications and shopping sites. "Users are clicking on these links without realising that their information is being passed on. If one of those sites is hacked, their information, such as credit card details, is easily a

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/microsoft-gates-resignation-investors_n_4026506.html?ir=Technology Tre av de topp 20 investorene i Microsoft Corp er lobbyvirksomhet styret å trykke i Bill Gates å gå av som leder av programvareselskapet han medgrunnlegger 38 år siden, ifølge folk kjent med saken. Mens Microsoft-sjef Steve Ballmer har vært under press i år å forbedre selskapets ytelse og aksjekurs, synes dette å være første gang at store aksjonærer er tar sikte på porter, som fortsatt er en av de mest respekterte og innflytelsesrike figurene i teknologi. En representant for Microsoft nektet å kommentere tirsdag. Det er ingen indikasjon at Microsofts styret hadde akt ønskene til de tre investorene, som har samlet mer enn 5 prosent av selskapets aksjer, ifølge kildene. Forespurte identiteten til investorene være holdt anonyme fordi diskusjonene er privat. Gates eier ca 4,5 prosent av 277 milliarder dollar selskapet og er den største enkelte aksjonæren. De tre investorene er opptatt av at Gates' tilstedeværelse på styret effektivt blokkerer innføringen av nye strategier og begrenser kraften i ny direktør å gjøre omfattende endringer. Spesielt peker de til Gates' rolle på special committee søker etter Ballmers etterfølger. De er også bekymret for at Gates - som tilbringer mesteparten av sin tid på hans filantropiske foundation - slår kraften ut av forhold til sin nedadgående eierandel. Gates, som eide 49 prosent av Microsoft før det gikk offentlig i 1986, selger ca 80 millioner Microsoft aksjer et år under en pre-set plan, som hvis fortsatte ville forlate ham med ingen økonomisk eierandel i selskapet av 2018. Gates senket sin profil hos Microsoft etter at han ga CEO rollen til Ballmer i 2000, gi opp sitt daglige arbeid det i 2008 å fokusere på $38 milliarder Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I August sa Ballmer han ville pensjonere innen 12 måneder midt press fra aktivisten forvalter ValueAct Capital Management. Mic

(EurActiv) - Insurers are eagerly eyeing exponential growth in the tiny cyber coverage market. But their lack of experience and skills handling hackers and data breaches may keep their ambitions in check. High profile cases of hackers seizing sensitive customer data from companies, such as US retailer Target Corp or e-commerce company eBay Inc, have executives checking their insurance policies. Increasingly, corporate risk managers are seeing insurance against cyber crime as necessary budget spending rather than just nice to have. The insurance brokerage arm of Marsh & McLennan Companies estimates that the US cyber insurance market was worth $1 billion (€0.73bn) last year in gross written premiums, and could reach as much as $2 billion (€1.4bn) this year. The European market is currently a fraction of that, at around $150 million (€110mn), but is growing by 50 to 100% annually, according to Marsh. Those numbers represent a sliver of the overall insurance market, which is growing at a far more sluggish rate. Premiums are set to grow only 2.8% this year in inflation-adjusted terms, according to Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer.