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Securing a .NET Application on the Oracle Database
White Papers International, national, state, and provincial laws and regulations are driving a more detailed and granular approach to security. With the ever increasing interest in security, companies are taking a more mature look at security beyond the simple...
[October 11, 2006, 0:00]
Home Office begins work on comms data
News This comes before the the government has begun the consultation on a proposed parliamentary bill that would enable it to gather communications data for policing and national security purposes. Smith defended the need to change the arrangements on...
[October 30, 2008, 8:22]
Start-up reignites bug-disclosure debate
News DeMott, who has done work for the National Security Agency among other places, describes his business model as "edgy", while other security researchers see it as more akin to "extortion". An upstart security research firm with a controversial...
[August 3, 2007, 15:48]
Lords to consider data retention objections
News This will exempt communications providers from data protection laws so they can retain traffic data for cases involving national security. The FIPR has also tabled an amendment to restrict the purpose for retaining data under ATCS to...
[November 30, 2001, 17:40]
UN agency investigates curbs on internet anonymity
News The documents, seen by ZDNet.co.uk's sister site CNET News.com, indicate that the US National Security Agency is also participating in the 'IP Traceback' drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback...
[September 15, 2008, 13:31]
Networks hit by co-ordinated attack
News This new approach to attacking a network was uncovered at the National Information Systems Security Conference in the US. Further evidence of a new type denial of service (DoS) attacks with unparalleled potential for causing havoc has been...
[December 8, 1999, 12:28]
Millions of Bagles knock out Windows firewall
News Neil Campbell, the national security manager at Internet security specialists Dimension Data, said it is common for viruses and worms to try and disable any firewall and antivirus programs on the system.
[November 1, 2004, 10:44]
Debian 'Lenny' released
News However, it will not be enabled by default, according to the Debian 5.0 release notes.SELinux enables policy-driven security configuration, and was initially developed by the American National Security Agency (NSA).
[February 16, 2009, 11:45]
Get Safe Online membership costs revealed
News A Word document sent in error to silicon.com, ZDNet UK's sister site, has revealed that the UK's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) has specifically been consulting only with security and online fraud experts willing to pay between £50,000 and...
[October 28, 2005, 14:25]
Linux/UNIX threats: SANS top 10
News For the past four years the SANS Institute has partnered with the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Centre to compile and publish its list of the most commonly exploited IT security vulnerabilities for both Windows and UNIX systems.
[November 22, 2004, 12:10]
Virtual privacy centre started in Germany
News Now the German commissioners, headed by the National Centre for Data Security in Schleswig Holstein, have started a virtual privacy centre, where people get information about their rights. The site contains data security tools for free download...
[December 11, 2000, 10:29]
Aum cult infiltrates Japanese government computers
News According to press reports, the Japanese government has denied that there has been any threat to national security. Security officials believe that the cult could have gained access to important government information and monitored communications...
[March 2, 2000, 16:24]
US easy target for Chinese cyber-spies, says report
News The report concludes that Chinese cyberattacks, authoritarian rule and trade violations are impediments to US economic and national-security interests. China is actively conducting cyber-espionage as a warfare strategy, and has targeted US...
[November 25, 2008, 13:45]
IBM wins bid to build hybrid supercomputer
News Now sources familiar with the machine have said that IBM has won the contract and that the National Nuclear Security Administration is expected to announce the deal in coming days. The supercomputer, for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be...
[September 6, 2006, 10:05]
NASA hacker is no Neo
Leader If NASA, the US Department of Defense, and even the shadowy spooks at the National Security Agency can be hacked then what hope has the average enterprise got? The news this week that the 'World's biggest hacker of military networks' may be...
[June 10, 2005, 14:30]
China urged to follow the Wi-Fi herd
News The disputed specification, called Wired Authentication and Privacy Infrastructure (WAPI), was implemented by the Standardization Administration of China in a bid to address national security concerns.
[February 26, 2004, 10:10]
Why governments really choose open source
News Deciding what lies at the heart of some countries almost zealous uptake of open source is not a simple as looking at the cold hard costs - politics, national security, anti-Americanism and innovation all have a part to play.
[November 17, 2005, 15:40]
Sober climbs November worm charts
News Malicious messages that purport to be from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHCTU), the CIA or Paris Hilton generated the vast majority of virus-laden email traffic in November, according to security companies.
[December 1, 2005, 8:05]
3Com seeks $66m break-up fee over failed merger
News Bain Capital pulled out of the deal late last week, concerned that the US government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) was intent on scuttling the deal, citing national security concerns.
[March 25, 2008, 8:50]
Bush pushes for expansion of surveillance law
News A second section permits police to share the contents of wiretaps or Internet surveillance with the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and other security agencies. Using the pageantry of his third State of the Union speech...
[January 21, 2004, 9:25]
