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A new survey released by Internet security firm Trend Micro today found that smartphone users are more worried about losing their phones or the personal data on them than being alarmed of the threat of Web infections or phishing software that is be increasingly found on them. (Full Report Powerpoint)

Data from enterprise users of Sophos’s Endpoint Assessment Test, which checks the state of Windows PC patching and anti-virus protection, suggest 11 per cent of users have failed to install the MS08-067 patch that guards against the vulnerability exploited by Conficker. The figures come from scans run since the start of the year.

What’s a botnet? Don’t be stupid if you don’t know – GO here! Those familiar with confickor know it has taken over millions of unsuspecting “zombie” computers worldwide and is programmed to do something on April 1st. What – no one knows for sure, but you can be sure it’s not lifting up mankind to some Utopian paradise.

Now, most recently its the Russian cyber assault on Kyrgyzstan, or as of 1993 – The Kyrgyz Republic, that passed virtually unnoticed in western media preceded by just weeks the Kyrgyzstan parliament’s decision this week to boot the United States from a vital air base at Manas. This has far reaching affect could create strategic chaos in the region for the United States.