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Technology developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), a sophisticated autonomous computer framework of control algorithms - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground making surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The technology also offers potential in search & rescue, environmental surveillance, mining, oil exploration, surveillance and reconnaissance for traffic control, fire extinction, oceanographic or geological surveys, and marine and border inspection.

A new £1 million SEPA scheme to protect vulnerable communities from the threat of flooding in high-risk areas of the North East of Scotland which includes several urban centres such as Aberdeen, Inverurie and Huntly, rural settlements, large areas of agricultural land and significant transport links has been launched by Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead.

NetWitness analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizstions around the world. The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the "Kneber botnet" after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information to miscreants who can use it to break into accounts, steal corporate and government information, and replicate personal, online and financial identities.

The European Parliament has blocked an agreement reached by the 27 EU national governments and the US last month to allow European citizens' personal financial data to be analysed by American authorities investigating the financing of terrorism. The vote was criticised by supporters of the agreement, who claim that Parliament's veto impedes intelligence services tracking terrorist activities.

PoweredByCloud the first major cloud computing conference to take place outside the US runs from 8-9th February with Cloud Law Summit on 10th February. If your company is serious about communicating with the paying early adopters in cloud, then our 2010 event is likely to be the best venue to do that. The Cloud Law Summit the first ever international review of the many legal issues surrounding the launch of cloud computing services in EMEA, and the complexities of North American law, the Patriot Act and privacy of data concerns.

Gizmag and others have picked up on that old chestnut, passwords a knotty issue for security where 123456 does not hack it! Gaberlunzie sees that the findings of a report by Imperva, a data security firm, that analysed 32m passwords recently exposed in the Rockyou.com breach. They identify the most common, and easily-guessable, but they also suggested some effective methods for creating secure ones.

Occam Networks, launched in the EMEA region in September 2009, has supplied the highly successful BLC 6000 multiservice access platform (MSAP) with GPON (Gigabit Passive Optical Network) capabilities as part of a contract won by its UK value added reseller Fibre Options to supply West Whitlawburn Housing Co-operative (WWHC) with an advanced fibre-based network.

Ksplice, which has won Forbes Boost Your Business contest, after accolades this year from the Wall Street Journal and Global Security Challnge, has a solution to that maddening and tedious problem of "You must restart your computer to install these updates." It offers technology that can offer rebootless updates,making it possible to patch the software while the computer is running, without any disruption or downtime, an approach that could save companies millions as well as improving computer security.

As king of network space, understandably Cisco claims smart grids help improve the societal and economic problems around the world, and is pushing the potential of smart grids to help improve the societal and economic problems facing country's around the world, despite real concerns around how the networks will be funded and security issues.

Researchers from the Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials IFAM in Bremen developed a new, non-destructive process. They use the Rapid Manufacturing method: a machine produces a component based on a 3D CAD model, building it layer-by-layer directly from the computer. The laser melts off the areas of each metal powder layer that are intended to be solid. Next, the building platform is lowered and the process restarts until the component is completed. Fraunhofer scientists can control this process in a manner that allows the RFID to be installed and completely encased by the material.

Tayside Police has invested £300,000 in upgraded equipment, doubling the size of its Computer Examination Unit – after child concern reports almost doubled in the wake of the tragic killing of toddler Brandon Muir. Councillors heard this week that a serious backlog had developed in the unit and computers belonging to suspected paedophiles were left unexamined.

Trying to raise Halifax insurance service last weekend reached a message that the computer was down and not to try again until Monday. A power failure to a datacentre on Saturday stopped all Halifax and Bank of Scotland branches from being able to provide cash machine, over-the-counter and online services for over six hours. In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration had its own problems and identified a serious software configuration issue within about four hours, but the resulting air traffic delays took hours longer to unwind.

"The Information Commissioner's Office has repeatedly called for organisations to make the data protection principles part of corporate governance. The Scottish Government’s new draft principles on identity management and privacy will help to reinforce this message whilst my office will be working with Scottish organisations to ensure the privacy rights of all Scottish individuals are protected."

From Twitter to Facebook, the U.S. Army to Motion Pictures Association, banks to telecom companies, hackers were relentless in the first half of 2009. They exploited all kinds of vulnerabilities including Cross Site Scripting, SQL Injection, Session Management, and ClickJacking. Billions of dollars as well as millions of identities were stolen. What we saw in 2008 only accelerated in 2009 in terms of attacks. The down economy contributed as many former employees, now unemployed are collaborating with hackers to find alternate financial means. Hacking continues to be the only hot career in this economy, with some hackers reportedly making $10K per week tax free

Networking technology UK subsidiary of broadband solutions specialists ZyXEL Communications UK Ltd, says its European-wide Security trade-in programme, launched in October, is helping to stimulate demand from customers. The programme comprises discounts of up to 25% when upgrading to a ZyXEL Unified Security Gateway (USG) firewall when trading in an old ZyXEL or other manufacturers firewall.

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