General Petraeus and his mistress Paula Dean Broadwell, the giant ‘killer’...the sad story of a General who conquered all in battles, but unable to conquer himself. Pity! Pity! Pity then, Dave. Photo: Daily Mail.
Professor Bloomfield of the City University of London, one of the world’s leading authorities on System and Software Dependability recently co-authored a scholarly study with Dr Anne Wetherilt of the Bank of England in which they observed that financial markets have evolved to become complex adaptive systems highly reliant on the communication speeds and processing power afforded by digital systems. Their failure, they argued could cause severe disruption to the provision of financial services and possibly the wider economy. In the report both Bloomfield and Wetherilt consider whether a perspective from the nuclear industry can provide additional insights. Read on!
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Parcels coming in thick and fast. Source: MoD
Vigilance can report that as the Christmas post deadline expires today, 3 December for Armed Forces personnel serving overseas, Servicemen and women have urged members of the public to avoid sending unsolicited gifts and packages to operational theatres such as Afghanistan. An MoD source said while these kind sentiments are appreciated, such generosity had often resulted in delaying all important mail from families and friends reaching their destination at this special time of year.
Below is a media alert from Trusteer about how financial malware Shylock continues to evolve in order to bypass new defensive technologies put into place by financial institutions and enterprises. While analysing a recent Shylock dropper Trusteer noticed a new trick it uses to evade detection. Namely, it can identify and avoid remote desktop environments – a setup commonly used by researchers when analysing malware.
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