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Understanding XP kernel enhancements
News The System Restore feature (available in Windows XP but not in .Net Server) lets you create checkpoints and then restore the system to the state it was in when the checkpoint was created. You can also create a checkpoint manually at any time.
[June 11, 2002, 14:47]
Microsoft releases Vista programming tools
News The release is "a significant checkpoint" on the road toward delivery of the company's new programming model, since it allows developers to build and deploy applications on their core production systems, said Ari Bixhorn, director of Web services...
[January 19, 2006, 8:15]
Military secrets escape through PDF file
News The document is a report written after an investigation into the death of Italian citizen Nicola Calipari at a checkpoint in Iraq. Experts are warning people to be careful with electronic documents that contain sensitive data after a breach in...
[May 5, 2005, 9:30]
Antivirus tools becoming hackers' new favourite
News Symantec, F-Secure and CheckPoint are among the vendors that have seen a rise in the number of security issues that affect their products in the past years, according to Yankee Group. As the pool of easily exploitable Windows security bugs dries up...
[June 21, 2005, 9:30]
Ex-Sun exec aims to redesign the network
News Suppliers in this area include Nokia, F5 and Checkpoint. In the next few years, users will throw out all their specialist network-related boxes, and replace them with a single high powered "packet-cracker", according to John McFarlane, who used to...
[March 7, 2002, 18:07]
Comms kit takes to the Alps for ultramarathons
News The company also supplied the PDAs (pictured) used at each checkpoint to read the RFID tags affixed to the back of participants' name tags. The Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc is one of the toughest ultramarathons in the world.
[September 8, 2008, 12:56]
VPN costs: appliances versus servers
News Currently, deployed hardware firewalls such as the Cisco PIX, Nokia Checkpoint Firewall, and Watchguard Firebox include optional VPN capabilities out of the box. A superior alternative to long-distance dial-in, leased-line, or Frame Relay...
[May 21, 2002, 10:43]
High-tech's role in the peace process
News Several Israeli companies have since gone on to fame and fortune, including instant-messaging pioneer ICQ and security software maker CheckPoint. Shimon Peres is reputed to be an incurable optimist, and maybe that's the right state of mind for...
[August 4, 2003, 16:10]
Apple criticised for persistent Trojan flaw
News While Apple added a checkpoint to the downloading and execution process, they did not eliminate this vulnerability," said Kevin Long, an analyst at security specialist Cybertrust and a Mac user for 11 years.
[March 7, 2006, 13:05]
Microsoft to distribute XP SP2 on one million CDs
News Windows Update 5.0 will include a "Checkpoint Restart" feature, which allows users to resume a download if their Internet connection is interrupted mid-download. Microsoft will encourage dial-up users to update their Windows XP systems with Service...
[July 9, 2004, 17:15]
Government sites continue to flout standards
News Satisfying this checkpoint is a basic requirement for some groups to be able to use Web documents. Government agencies are continuing to flout the government's own guidelines for interoperability, and failing to comply with the most basic standards...
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
Microsoft's antivirus fails another test
News Microsoft also noted that OneCare is "still certified" by the International Computer Security Association (ICSA) Labs and the West Coast Lab's Checkpoint certification system. Microsoft's Live OneCare security suite has been rated bottom of the...
[March 7, 2007, 15:18]
Planning the future of privacy at Microsoft
News For example, we now have a very prescriptive set of privacy standards that guide the development of all products and services, which is integrated into the development process, as opposed to having it as a standalone checkpoint.
[July 3, 2006, 12:10]
Change of tactics in war on viruses
News IronPort isn't the only vendor to use reputation-based quarantining, as CheckPoint, Cisco, and TippingPoint, among others, currently sell such systems. Traditional approaches to providing updates — which require the malicious code to be in the...
[March 1, 2006, 14:35]
Charles Cooper: Middle East Tech - Jews need not apply
News A few years ago when the peace process was in better shape, there was more inclination of doing deals direct -- and in fact we had some Arab VARs and systems integrators approach us to cut the middle man out," said Marius Nacht, one of the...
[December 24, 1999, 6:26]
McLaren shifts IT security up a gear
News Using CA's Security Command Centre, McLaren has pulled Checkpoint, McAfee and CA products together to create an IT security dashboard. McLaren Formula One driver Kimi Raikkonen makes a living by trusting his life to technology.
[December 29, 2004, 13:55]
Governance, guidance and how to get your IT project done
News Governance conjures up words like: barrier, checkpoint, approval, prevent, block, and stop in the mind of those who come across it. Most organisations these days are talking about governance. The public accounting scandals over the last few years...
[May 23, 2005, 11:05]
Hot e-commerce picks; AMD about-face
News Preissler and other analysts are recommending a slew of e-commerce facilitators such as OpenMarket, CheckPoint Software, InfoSpace and CyberSource. Despite the Nasdaq's pullback this week, leading technology analysts are recommending a handful of...
[January 10, 2000, 10:39]
VoIP spam tipped to rocket
News Checkpoint, the security products vendor, has developed a framework for detecting telephony spam, which it refers to as SPIT (spam over internet telephony). NEC has warned businesses that telephony spam levels are about to soar.
[January 29, 2007, 15:46]
Spyware: Is it clogging up your network?
News Checkpoint Firewall-1 employs many individual proxy servers using TCP to handle communication from the internal network to and from the public Internet. After a bit of detective work, I usually find that the problems are not really an Internet...
[January 28, 2005, 15:20]
