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14th October 2006 Archive

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  • MySpace phishing scam targets music fans

    Money, money, money

    Con-men have developed a phishing attack targeting MySpace music fans that highlights the evolving use of social engineering techniques in money-making spam emails. Junk emails featuring the attack have been spammed out to thousands of computer users around the globe in the last week, to trick them into visiting one of a series …

    ID 14 Oct 2006, 07:02

  • HM Treasury unplugged - Government's IT late list

    Analysis Why does it always go so wrong?

    The Conservatives have helped expose, again, the systemic failure of Government IT projects with a seemingly trivial parliamentary question about costs and timescales at HM Treasury. A written answer extracted by Theresa Villiers, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, discovered that IT projects were running a total of 17 …

    Public Sector 14 Oct 2006, 07:02

  • The Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF)

    Comment At your service

    On October 4, the Liberty Alliance announced the final version of its Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF). I have to admit, I have always struggled to get my head around ID-WSF, which Liberty defines as providing… the framework for building interoperable identity services, permission based attribute sharing, identity …

    Developer 14 Oct 2006, 23:16