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Single sign-on -- not a panacea
News When a coworker is promoted or moved to another department, you're asking for trouble if that person's prior office mates can get access to new data or systems because of their knowledge of prior passwords.
[September 19, 2002, 13:53]
Recovery after the first 24 hours of a disaster
News Organisations generally don't protect these servers with real-time replication and failover systems, since the recovery point objectives (RPO) for these servers typically allow for the loss of a day's worth of data or more.
[June 24, 2005, 12:05]
'Opto-chip' could revolutionise telecommunications
News An "opto-chip" could revolutionise Internet surfing by dramatically speeding up rates of data transfer across networks, US scientists said Thursday. Researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of Washington claim to have...
[April 7, 2000, 11:37]
Microsoft fails Slammer's security test
News The messages, seen by CNET News.com, portray a company struggling with a massive infection by the SQL Slammer worm, which inundated many corporate networks Saturday with steady streams of data that downed Internet connections and clogged bandwidth.
[January 28, 2003, 8:39]
Will software ever be flawless?
Blog Little of the data that the software is designed to handle, and the associated risks to it are addressed by security coding alone. Clearly when the idea for a software program is developed, the associated risks to the data it will handle should be...
[March 31, 2009, 13:50]
WAP 2.0: Fearsome features
News On your mobile device, WAP replaces a Web browser with a WAP browser, which can also request data from a Web site. The major difference between how you access the data via a browser on your PC and a WAP 1.x browser is that the WAP browser requires...
[July 3, 2002, 15:29]
Corporate Express reaps rewards of virtualisation
News A long-term plan to relocate into new corporate headquarters also meant that IT had been asked to continue operating in its existing data-centre space, making virtualisation the most rational option. However, achieving those benefits required a...
[May 8, 2008, 13:23]
Management group warns CEOs of data-breach risks
News In a report entitled Cyber Attack: A Risk Management Primer for CEOs and Directors, launched on Wednesday, the British-North American Committee (BNAC) said that chief executives underestimate the scale of data-security problems and fail to...
[May 8, 2008, 14:22]
Government hints at ID card security
News I would question whether meaningful control can be maintained over who has access, and who that data is then shared with," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International and a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics.
[November 15, 2006, 13:10]
'Zombie attacks': Web crackdown widens
News When the order is given, the programs focus a hail of data traffic on the targeted Web site, overwhelming the victim. Scott Charney of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, a former Justice Department cyber-crime expert, said European countries may have to...
[February 21, 2000, 9:06]
Flaw in Cisco WLAN opens up skyjacking risk
News Wireless local area network equipment from Cisco Systems is at risk of use in denial-of-service attacks and data theft, according to a security company. Cisco access points generate an unencrypted multicast data frame that is sent over the air.
[August 28, 2009, 10:58]
Microsoft: ' Patch now'
News Created by Xerox and standardised in 1984, ASN.1 is a way to describe networking data and protocols, said Bancroft Scott, president of OSS Nokalva, an ASN.1 tools developer. Twenty years ago, people frequently reinvented the wheel when they wanted...
[February 11, 2004, 7:30]
Reports predict IT security spending will skyrocket
News Cybersecurity market growth trends International Data Corp (IDC), a division of International Data Group (IDG), has released "Big Picture: IT Security Products and Services Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006".
[February 24, 2003, 13:09]
Is it boom time for IT security?
News International Data Corp (IDC), a division of Framingham, MA-based International Data Group (IDG), has released Big Picture: IT Security Products and Services Forecast and Analysis, 2002-2006. This may be accurate since obviously many incidents...
[February 24, 2003, 10:50]
Brown pumps funds into espionage tech
News It was not made clear whether the National Security Forum would have oversight of government departments, which have been involved in a rash of data breach reports in the past year. It will be interesting to see whether the [Forum's] remit extends...
[March 19, 2008, 17:37]
Schneier: Beware security products
News If events are high damage and rare it's difficult to get data. I'm not going to know [the validity of a product] because I don't have the data. There's not enough data," said Schneier. Shannon Kellogg, director of information security policy for...
[October 23, 2007, 17:12]
ID Card on track says government
Blog The Commissioner will also review how we are keeping personal data secure and report any data protection breaches to the Information Commissioner at the same time as the Home Secretary. Protecting the public is a top priority for the Government and...
[November 6, 2008, 13:03]
The FBI's top 10 online security threats
News Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) The Remote Data Services component of many MDAC versions has serious vulnerabilities. Every version of IE has critical threats, and new ones are found all the time.
[January 28, 2004, 13:30]
Critical PHP flaw patched
News Arguably the most critical vulnerability is in a function used to compact data for storage. Two software updates have been released to fix critical flaws that could allow an attacker to compromise servers using PHP, a programming language for Web...
[December 20, 2004, 7:40]
US reveals plans to hit back at cyber threats
News While cyber-espionage was inevitable, said Elder, knowledge of the US military being able to pinpoint the source of cyberattacks could deter assaults on critical national infrastructure that use Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (Scada...
[April 2, 2008, 17:27]
