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A Year Ago: Public Pays For Banks' Insecurity
News Even more frustrating than this insecurity, however, is the suggestion that banks actually prefer to leave their computers open to attack and charge customers extra for the damage that may be caused rather than address security faults and risk a...
[July 25, 2000, 6:55]
Information Insecurity And Microsoft Passport: An Economic Analysis
White Papers Recent research in network insecurity has led to the realization that online information insecurity may be due less to technological weaknesses and more to the lack of economic incentives for operators to fix their flawed software.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Public Pays For Banks' Insecurity
News Even more frustrating than this insecurity, however, is the suggestion that banks actually prefer to leave their computers open to attack and charge customers extra for the damage that may be caused rather than address security faults and risk a...
[July 23, 1999, 14:05]
Living With Insecurity: A Practical Philosphy
White Papers That means we have to learn to live with insecurity and manage our risks. Security is different from many other computer-related topics. It is as much a process or way of thinking about your systems, networks, and applications as it is a set of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
War Nibbling: Bluetooth Insecurity
White Papers The Bluetooth protocol, which is deployed in millions of products ranging from cellular telephones to laptops, is quickly becoming the new standard for intra-device wireless communications. This paper examines methods of assessing the security of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Printer Insecurity: Is It Really An Issue?
White Papers Printers are an essential tool for today's business activities and therefore an essential component of today's network infrastructure. Aside from computers, printers are usually the most commonly used devices on a network.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Homeland Insecurity
White Papers Since September 11, the government has been calling for a new security infrastructure - one that employs advanced technology to protect the citizenry and track down malefactors. Pending legislations demands that the Attorney General employ...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Broadband Network Insecurity & Implications
White Papers As broadband internet access is widely introduced throughout the United Kingdom, users has realized that a permanent Internet connection which they can telecommute, use online banking and purchase products and services using secure SSL channels.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Web Insecurity: An Exercise In Misconfiguration
White Papers There is currently a raft of information available on the threats to WWW security. However compromises of WWW sites continue to take place. Many break-ins are easily preventable by following simply security procedures and keeping servers and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Homeland Insecurity: How The Wackenhut Corporation Is Compromising America's Nuclear Security
White Papers Despite the high level of public concern over homeland security, the single largest supplier of security officers to sensitive U.S.nuclear facilities is a private firm that has overseen frightening security lapses, presided over training cutbacks...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
How To Prepare For Job Insecurity
News A recent survey conducted by Forrester Research states that companies are less likely to outsource their database administration than any other IT functionality. Does that make you sleep better at night?
[December 2, 2004, 10:55]
Insecurity In ATM-Based Passive Optical Networks
White Papers This paper considers the security of an ITU standard for ATM-based passive optical networks. First, it shows that the standard's encryption algorithm, called churning, has an effective 8-bit key length and thus is trivial to break with exhaustive...
[July 18, 2008, 0:00]
The Insecurity Of Test Data: The Unseen Crisis
White Papers When a large Midwestern US insurance company hired an outside expert from a respected technology consulting firm to develop business application software, it didn't think that it was turning test data over to an identity thief.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Designing For Insecurity
White Papers The most basic type of firewall is the venerable packet filter. A packet filter is a beast with no concept of what has been. It filters TCP/IP packets based on the information contained in the packet header protocol type, source address, source...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
US Department Of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level
Downloads Displays the current Idiocy Level in the status bar. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[September 26, 2007, 16:55]
Microsoft's February Security Bulletins
Talkback I believe that the right term is "Insecurity Bulletins" which MS publishes and serves to list the ubiquitous security breeches found in the Microsoft Software offerings. Please change the headings for future insecurity listings.
[February 21, 2006, 2:09]
Trojan Attack Hits Networks Worldwide
Talkback Insecurity is often created to encash it for own benefits but it is also a warning signal to take an immediate and emergent action. Any ignorance of a “genuine insecurity” created by an act or omission may bring catastrophic results.
[July 9, 2005, 17:06]
Ending The Epidemic Of Ignorance
News One of the most prevalent problems with security is that most users are completely unaware of the risks of insecurity. The average user uses Microsoft Windows, and Windows is where the battle against insecurity and ignorance needs to start.
[May 18, 2005, 13:15]
Trojans Exploit IE Hole To Run Up Massive Phone Bills
Talkback There is a simple way to protect oneself from IE and Outlook unfathomable insecurity : switch to another web browser and email client. Opera and Mozilla are more than credible alternatives. It's hard to believe that this way out is never suggested...
[September 29, 2003, 13:30]
Mac Hacking Competition Winner Mocks Apple Security
Talkback The only insecurity associated with OS-X is the fear and terror the competition feels at it's superiority in every way. There you go another Windows drone too stupid to recognize a spoof when it hits em in the head.
[March 8, 2006, 0:35]
