Biometric security systems using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition have started to become mainstream. They are very likely to be common within a few years. And as soon as biometrics system will begin to be used to protect bank accounts or financial systems, crooks will start looking at ways of breaking into them. Biometric spoofing is a "growing concern", said Bori Toth, biometric research and advisory lead at Deloitte & Touche. You may have seen in movies how biometric systems can be spoofed by say using gelatin fingers to spoof fingerprint recognition systems. They are all too real.

Normally we don't associate Evite requests with spamming. That trust has been broken. Today I received a spam from Arnnei Speiser, Managing Director of Mega AS Consulting Ltd. www.megaas.co.nz disguised as Evite eCard.

The Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) has come under intense scrutiny, mainly because of questionable actions like home-calling and mis-identification of software pirates. Microsoft wants to stop rumors stating that the WGA falsely identifies legitimate users as pirates. According to WGA team member Alex Kochis, "Of the hundreds of millions of WGA validations to date, only a handful of actual false positives have been seen."

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Yahoo for the first time is offering a popular song for sale unprotected by any anti-copying technology. It's a one-time deal with record label Epic that Yahoo mentioned as significant progress toward its goal of eventually selling all music downloads with no restrictions.