Most clients don't like their vendors and require a more comprehensive solution says the Sophos chief. Paul Fisher reports

When French president Nicolas Sarkozy had his bank account hacked it seemed to serve as a metaphor for the crisis in the global system. In fact the incidents were spotted before the crisis, in September, and reports claim Mr Sarkozy only suffered small losses from the account used for his £195,000-a-year salary.

The RSA conference is widely known as the world's leading security event but journalists at the BBC are clearly out of the loop.

SAFECode, the body set up to promote software assurance announced that it has established an international advisory board. SAFECode members include EMC Corporation, Juniper Networks, Inc., Microsoft Corp., Nokia, SAP AG and Symantec Corp.

A Turkish hacker known as "Chao" and arrested as part of the FBI operation against underground forum DarkMarket produced his own training videos.

Brazilian hackers now more technically sophisticated than Russians

The European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx told SC that EU states need to do better in tackling the widening problem of data breaches.

Art Coviello, the President of RSA welcomed delegates to the RSA Conference Europe 2008 by calling for a radical approach to information security and appealed to vendors to develop intelligent adaptable solutions.

The Blue Coat Systems CEO gazed into the dotcom abyss and survived. He thinks he has the measure of the downturn. Paul Fisher reports

Events have been occurring at a somewhat rapid pace just recently.