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The RSA Conferences are among of the most important annual security conferences. This year's US conference was held in San Francisco 1 - 5 March. One of the speakers was Microsoft's Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President Trustworthy Computing. His speech covered several interesting topics, of which we will discuss one: the ability, usefulness and implications of treating infected computers in a similar manner as infected human beings.

December is the month to look back on the year that is coming to an end, and we will attempt to sum up the situation seen from a security company's point of view. The most significant observation to make from this year's malware activity, is that different social networks became a major target for authors of malicious programs.

Major events, happenings and in general all kind of things that create much notice, also leave in their wake a stream of malicious software.

In several security articles we have discussed the fact that new media and communication devices are successful vehicles for malware propagation. This time we will examine a type of application, which has not been focused upon - (presumably) neither by the malware authors yet, nor by commentators.