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Schmidt: Proprietary code is more securely written

Video Ex-White House adviser Howard Schmidt says the open-source community needs to catch up when it comes to securing code [11 Nov 2009]

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Manchester ID card registration date announced

News People with a home or work address in Greater Manchester can register for an ID card later this month, the government has said [16 Nov 2009]

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Home Office introduces a dozen ID card readers

News The UK now has 12 identity card readers as part of a pilot scheme, having had none earlier this year [16 Nov 2009]

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Schmidt: Users need more browser control Video icon

Schmidt: Users need more browser control

Video As Web 2.0 apps become more prevalent, users need more control of how their browser interacts with operating systems, says Howard Schmidt [10 Nov 2009]


Zero-day flaw found in web encryption

News A security issue with underlying web encryption protocols TLS and SSL has left many authentication mechanisms open to attack, according to security researchers [05 Nov 2009]

South Korea plans to fingerprint visitors

Blog 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... [03 Nov 2009]

Government agency loses farmers' data

News The Rural Payments Agency lost two tapes holding encoded personal information on farmers earlier this year but only informed its minister last week [02 Nov 2009]

The simplest of ideas

Blog I have been struck by how the simplest of ideas can make a substantial impact. I was using internet banking recently, and a couple of banks have started to submit the username and password from... [02 Nov 2009]

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Tories: ID cards need 28m sign-ups to break even

News Half the British population would need to pay ID card fees before the government scheme becomes self-financing, according to the Conservatives [27 Oct 2009]

Project aims to devise Euro e-ID platform

News Chipmakers and smartcard manufacturers have joined forces to provide identity card technologies that conform to European standards [22 Oct 2009]

Attackers could steal crypto keys from mobile devices

News Security researchers have found a way to steal keys used for encryption and authentication on mobile devices by analysing electromagnetic signals and radio frequency emissions [21 Oct 2009]

IT managers told: Don't block social networking

News Analysts at the Gartner Symposium advised attendees that trying to lock down communications with the outside world is futile and not to be recommended [20 Oct 2009]

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SonicWALL TZ 210

SonicWALL TZ 210

Review SonicWALL's feature-packed TZ 210 gateway security appliance is capable of protecting all kinds of networks at a very affordable price. It's easy to setup and manage, and sets a new price point in the UTM market. [15 Oct 2009]


Windows 7 holes plugged in record Patch Tuesday

News In its biggest Patch Tuesday ever, Microsoft issued fixes for two Windows 7 vulnerabilities plus a number of zero-day flaws elsewhere [14 Oct 2009]

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Authorities reach agreement on travel card spec

News The move means councils can plan and implement additional services, following a period of uncertainty caused by changes to the accreditation requirements for cards [09 Oct 2009]

Firewalls failing to protect banks, says security expert

News Banks are spending more than they need on technology they would not miss, according to network security pioneer Nir Zuk [09 Oct 2009]

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Government changes tack on ID card tech

News The Identity and Passport Service will not use the DWP database to store biographical data for ID cards, at least in the short term [08 Oct 2009]

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Banks use Facebook despite security concerns

Blog According to a recent report, over half of CIOs reckon that users shouldn't be using social networking sites such as Facebook. The rationale is apparently that workers should be working not messing... [07 Oct 2009]

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Police hunt down IT forensics expertise

News The Metropolitan Police Service is setting up a £32m framework to buy forensic analysis of electronic devices [02 Oct 2009]

Government U-turns on passport pledge

News The Identity and Passport Service has said applicants will need to provide fingerprints when applying for biometric passports [01 Oct 2009]

BlackBerry smartphones open to SMS attack

News A certificate notification issue means BlackBerry users could be tricked into visiting malicious websites, RIM has warned [30 Sep 2009]

Tories: Centralised data creates 'honeypot' for fraud

News The shadow justice minister has said a Conservative government would collect less personal data and have a minister in each department accountable for information security [29 Sep 2009]

Google deactivates Gmail account after bank error

News The search giant and Rocky Mountain Bank have asked a court to dismiss a case that stemmed from the bank inadvertently emailing customer data to a random Gmail address [29 Sep 2009]

Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser

Blog A developer body is to hold a conference at Bletchley Park to raise money for the home of British WWII code-breaking. ACCU, which up until 2006 was known as the Association of C and C++ Users,... [28 Sep 2009]

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XP Nerd Trick 2

Blog DANGEROUS TECHNIQUE DESCRIBED BELOW. THIS WILL MODIFY YOUR DESKTOP OR LAPTOP COMPUTER TO THE EXTENT THAT IT WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO RECOVER CONTROL OF THE SYSTEM. MAKE an... [07 Sep 2009]

Gov't says scrapping ID cards won't save it £3bn

Blog The Identity and Passport Service has said that getting rid of ID cards won't save the taxpayer £3bn over 10 years — as the costs are to be met by people who apply for passports and ID cards.... [14 Aug 2009]

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HP darknet 'not for dissidents'

Blog Technology developed by HP to enable secure communications networks to be set up via a web-browser should not be used by dissidents, HP has said. One of the co-developers of HP's browser-based... [28 Jul 2009]

MP in Twitter security shocka

Blog Tom Watson MP, Labour's first blogger and Twitterer-in-chief, recently left an Apple store. We know this because, at 3:47pm, his Twitter account broadcast the message: "I've forgotten to log out... [15 Jul 2009]

PM calls on Berners-Lee in open-government drive

Blog Gordon Brown is bringing in the inventor of the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, to help open up government data. Brown made the announcement in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, during a speech... [10 Jun 2009]

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Gotcha!

Blog Maybe it's my eyes. Maybe it's my age. Maybe, like the motorcycle test, they're just harder. Whatever it is, captcha has now turned into gotcha. The captcha above caught me out, locked down... [10 Jun 2009]

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It seems to me this is a burden being placed on the wrong shoulders. There is not an It system in the world that can stop an individual taking information in their heads and spewing out at the nearest undesirable third party.

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