Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Digital Planet October 9 2006

In this week's Digital Planet: security risks to our home computers - finding out about super passwords and how many companies are not updating these regularly leaving themselves vulnerable to attack.

Learn more about hackers - do they fit the stereotype? Researchers are trying to discover exactly the type of person who likes the challenge of breaking into someone else's machine.

And air traffic controllers texting pilots - at first glance perhaps not the safest of options but at the Eurocontrol centre in Maastricht this alternative to radio communication is being tested and is proving very useful.

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