Security Bullet In

The South Korean authorities could fingerprint and photograph foreign visitors from 2012, the Korea Times reported on Tuesday.

Barring diplomats and government operatives, all visitors over the age of 17 could have their fingerprints scanned and photo taken, said the article.

The Korean Cabinet has approved the Bill, which will be voted on by the National Assembly this month.

Should the plans go ahead, Korea will discuss sharing the data with the US, which operates a similar system. Japan also collects visitors' biometrics.

Natwest's computer systems experienced problems that lead to service outages, according to reports by bloggers and Twitter users.

Dan Stuchbury, a developer who lives in Wiltshire, blogged on Friday that he had been told at his local Natwest branch that their computer systems had crashed.

Twitter user Gavin Quayle said that Natwest ATMs across London were also not working. Other Twitter users reported that RBS machines were also down (Natwest is owned by RBS).

A Natwest spokesperson told ZDNet UK on Friday that there had been an internal technical problem with Natwest's systems, and that no outside hack had caused the outage.

"There was a technical issue impacting some of our systems for a short period of time this morning," said Natwest in a statement. "We quickly identified and resolved the issue and we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers."

The outages lasted for approximately an hour, said the spokesperson.

While the issue affected all Natwest branches in the UK, no RBS bank machines had been affected, the spokesperson added.

Companies need to embrace consumer and Web 2.0 technologies, rather than ban them, according to security vendor RSA.

Christopher Young, RSA senior vice president of products, told an audience at RSA conference in London on Tuesday that firms could fall behind competitors that use innovative technologies.

"[Organisations] try to fill USB ports with epoxy or ban iPhones," said Young. "Resistance is often futile and counterproducitve. Organisations that buck these trends are likely to be left behind by the competition."

Young said that firms which develop strategies to harness innovative technologies were more likely to succeed. He added that security must be embedded into the IT infrastructure, and that security controls must be correlated and content aware.

The Welsh government is moving towards adopting the use of mobile average speed cameras, according to Kable.

The cameras, which use automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) to gauge the average speed of a car between two points, will initially be mobile.

In May, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) admitted that police in the UK were swamped by the amount of data they were collecting.

The High Court has granted an injunction that will be served via Twitter.

The injunction was granted to self-styled Thatcherite blogger Donal Blaney. It calls for a person who is allegedly impersonating Blaney on Twitter to stop, and reveal their identity.

The Guardian wrote that this could be the beginning of the end for the traditional serving of court papers. The BBC said the injunction would be effective from 1930 BST.