The worry about Cyber crime is growing more and more in those governmental institutions that deal with Homeland Security, as testified by the incredibly high number of conferences, reports and studies that are released every day.

For instance, October issue of English Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology  is focused on Computer Crime, and it consider the problem starting from the analysis of technological devices that could be subject to an attack, to get to  Computer legislation, statistics on the malicious software that could hit a computer and of course a number of “tips” to avoid the consequences of an attack, or at least to keep them down.

The 80% of data breaches are provoked by external attacks but this means that in 20 cases on 100, there’s the risk that the leak have been caused by an employee of the affected company, Computerworld reported on Friday  .

These data,  actually  represent a huge threat  for companies, because according to Jerald Murphy, senior vice president and director of research operations at The Robert Frances Group,  the risk that people could do illegitimate things with data they have legitimate access to is much less well container. "Consequently, this is one of the greatest sources of data security vulnerability -- and one of the hardest to defend against -- that organizations face today."

As confirmed by a survey carried out by the website Crimestoppers, over 18 million UK households could be failing to protect themselves from identity fraud.

 Identity Fraud is considered  almost a social plague in England, because of its vertiginous growth within last few years. The lack of awareness on these issues then, does not contribute to a proper prevention.  

Actually, British condition isn't far from that of  many other countries where every day identity thieves succesfully carry out their criminal actions, but in the Queen's land a surprisingly high number of initiatives have been set up to face such digital emergency.
Is this the signal that the situation is worsen that expected, or is this the expression of a new and more responsible concern?

The English website The Register  reported that a fellow named Alfredo Melloni suffered injuries (skin burns) after intensively using his 2 months old MacBook Pro (15", 2,16 ghz). Being the second time he have hurted himself  this way(the first time was a few weeks ago, when he suffered injuries on his lap skin having worked for a long time with the Apple's laptop on his lap) he mailed his complaint to Apple and to some newspapers, then posted some complaints on Apple's user forum. Pretty much the same case reported  previously by another web source.

Guess what? Someone among specialized press immediately doubted that  the fact had actually happened , whereas mr. Melloni's posts on Apple's forum... magically disappeared.

Being mr. Melloni one of the Zone-H co-founder nonetheless a respected ITsec professional, we at Zone-H thought that it might be wise to come in help, backing up his statements to reveal to the world what really happened, without having biased or lobbied press trying to "wash out" the issue right as for the Apple's WiFi drivers hack guys.

On October 10th the European Commission was delivered a letter from proprietary software groups in response to a recent survey on the role of open-source  software in the European economy (referred to as free/Libre/Open Source, or FLOSS), the magazine techworld reported .

No doubt about the fact that a digital attack could be as dangerous as a bombing or a military action. This is what we have learnt day by day monitoring the Net and this is also the theory that stands at the base of a study by Doctor Stephen Haag, an associate dean at the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver who has studied this matter for a long time and who now works as paid consultant for several U.S. government agencies such as NASA, the Air Force and the EPA.

According to Dr. Haag, the offensive strategy that is more likely to hit the USA in next months, will pass through the digital ground and specifically will be focused on identity terrorism.

There’s a fundamental difference between normal  identity theft and identity terrorism that is, whereas a case of identity theft involves a monetary fraud, terrorists aim to destroy huge amount of identities at the same time provoking big damages to a country's crucial aspects.