1. Your company‘s information technology department also may be able to provide hardware or software that allows you to securely access the firm‘s systems from remote locations.

2. The defect, details of which are being withheld by The Mail, allows criminals to use keyloggers – hardware or software which records every keystroke made on a target keypad – to gain access to bank accounts.

3. Lorie Lewis, a spokeswoman at the Secret Service, declined to confirm the report directly, but acknowledged that the agency "has worked together with other government agencies and industry on preventive technological countermeasures designed to discourage the illegal use of printers and copiers in the production of counterfeit currency". Lewis said she could not elaborate on these measures, but said they were "specific and limited to the reproduction of currency" and that the action "in no way tracks or measures the use of a personal computer‘s hardware or software". Disturbing implications "Internationally, there are governments who would be very interested in what dissidents have to say and in tracking dissidents" Rebecca Jeschke, EFF spokeswoman EFF, a group promoting privacy, free speech and technological innovation, said the news had disturbing implications for privacy even if the aim was to stop counterfeiting.