A current INQUIRER news item, Microsoft Vista to shut out other OSes, the firm was quoted as saying that Vista will support full volume encryption to prevent disk access to files by other operating systems but that Microsoft is not entirely clear what this implies. In reality, it is likely that Microsoft doesn't want to reveal a security problem that has been around for more than a decade.

There is a bogus FIFA lottery scam going around, consider yourself warned.

The bogus email notifications of supposed $1m winnings prey on interest in the Football World Cup tournament, scheduled to take place for the first time in South Africa in 2010. FIFA, the international football governing body, has posted a warning on its website.