A man who killed his wife over a posting made on Facebook has been jailed for life.
Wayne Forrester told police he felt “devastated” and “humiliated” when his wife changed her status to single a few days after she had kicked him out of their marital home.

Appearing before the Old Bailey, barristers explained how Forrester was drunk, and had been taking cocaine before driving back to their home in south London and attacking his wife, stabbing her to death with a kitchen knife. He believed his wife had been having an affair.

Forrester pleaded guilty to the crime, and will now serve a minimum of 14 years.

In a prepared statement, Forrester told the court: “Emma and I had just split up. She forced me out of the house and then posted messages on an internet website telling everyone she had left me and was looking to meet other men.

“I felt that I was watching somebody else attacking Emma. It was as though I had no control of what I was doing.”

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest victim of internet fraud, after hackers broke into his personal bank account to steal cash.
French Cabinet spokesperson Luc Chatel admitted the attack to a French radio station, but claimed only “small amounts of cash” were taken. Chatel claimed the president reported the crime last month, and that investigations were under way.

“The swindlers will be punished,” he told French radio. “These cases are sufficiently rare that we haven’t had to really organise ourselves, but [are] sufficiently serious for us to reflect on how to improve the system.”

Experts believe the attack shows nobody is invulnerable.

“What’s interesting is how the cyber crooks managed to steal the password to access what should have been a secure account,” says Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos.

“This latest incident highlights the fact that no-one is safe and that everyone should take the necessary precautions to avoid ending up in the same boat as Sarkozy and so many others.”

Alcatel-Lucent is hoping to cash in on the recent spate of corporate data losses with a new 3G card that can remotely cripple a stolen PC.
The company’s Nonstop Laptop Guardian (NLG) is a PC card device that boasts its own processor, memory and Linux operating system. The device is kept always-on with its own internal battery and 3G data connection, that can be used to disable or even wipe the PC if it’s reported lost or stolen.

The company is also working with security vendor McAfee to encrypt the data on laptops fitted with the NLG. Any data stored on the PC becomes useless if the card, which holds the encryption keys, is removed.

Alcatel-Lucent claims the device will ease the burden of responsibility for data loss from employees’ shoulders.  
  
“Because it’s got the always-on capability, IT help desks and management centres can remotely access the PC, remotely track the PC, remotely patch manage the PC, remotely kill the PC, remotely encrypt the PC,” Peter Tebbutt, business development director at Alcatel-Lucent told PC Pro. “You’re not dependent on the laptop being on. The card has its own life.”

Tebbutt claims the device has a standby battery life of 100 hours, although it can also draw power and recharge itself from the main laptop battery. “You can set the parameters on the card to say ‘if the laptop battery is low, don’t draw from it’,” he said to address fears of a negative impact on laptop battery life.

The NLG essentially replaces the laptop’s existing 3G data card, with Tebbutt claiming it will work with “pretty much any SIM card out there”.

Companies can either control the NLG devices internally with a dedicated management server or opt to have them managed by a service provider.

The device has been on sale in the US since last year, but the recent deluge of data losses has undoubtedly encouraged the company to target the UK.

The NLG will cost around £145, with a monthly charge of around £5-£10.