There is no way of eliminating the risk of data loss completely because systems, however good they are, are implemented, administered and used by human beings.

When I get a chain letter like this, I don't usually respond to everyone else who received it, even when it's a hoax (as it usually is)...

In "Viruses Revealed", Robert Slade and I said that ""In many ways, the Internet Worm is the story of data security in miniature."

I just came got back from Oxford (that's the one in the UK, by the way), where the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization held its latest two-day meeting.

After having used the Google Chrome internet browser for a while now, I can say that it is generally a pretty nice browser, but I have some very serious privacy concerns.

Recently we noticed a thread in a forum associated with a free security product, originating in an open letter to a well-known tester, asking him to donate his sample set for the improvement of the product.