New chairperson of ICT empowerment charter steering committee appointed and other brief reports
Publish date: 08 February 2006
Issue Number: 1118
Diary: Legalbrief eLaw
Category: Corruption
* Norman Munzhelele, chief director of the policy unit at the Department of Communications, has been appointed as the new chairperson of the ICT empowerment charter steering committee. Munzhelele says the only major challenge facing the committee is the \'harmonisation of the ICT industry\'s codes and the Department of Trade and Industry\'s codes\'. Full ITWeb report
* A red plastic watering can used to moisten the skin of the River Thames whale during a failed rescue attempt sold earlier this week for £2 050 following an Internet auction. Marine wildlife medic Faye Archell put the unlikely piece of memorabilia up for sale on the eBay Web site to raise funds for British Divers Marine Life Rescue. Full Cape Times report * Competing hacker groups in Russia were peddling the exploit code responsible for the Windows Meta File (WMF) attacks last December for $4 000. The WMF flaw unsettled security experts after they found that the virus-writing community discovered the vulnerability before they did. Full CNET News report
