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The security backlash against Facebook has taken a new twist with a survey finding that large numbers of employees are now being blocked from accessing it.

Canada

The information technology (IT) sector has a role to play alongside government and law enforcement agencies to protect the country's critical infrastructure against cyber threats, said RCMP corporal Timothy Cooke at the CIPS Informatics conference this week

Blanket bans on mp3s and USB sticks in response to perceived security threats have silenced cubicles in many Canadian offices. But at least one Canadian security consultant believes just blackballing these devices can do more harm.

Google Desktop 3 beta poses a security risk to many companies and use of the software should be tightly controlled, Gartner Inc. said in a research note last week.

Bill Gates is getting serious about security. Microsoft Corp.'s chairman and chief software architect is calling on the software giant's 49,000 employees worldwide to make "trustworthy computing" the company's highest priority.