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Practical Security Aspects of Digital Signature Systems
White Papers However, international regulations such as EU Directive 1999/93/EC and national signature laws provide only rough guidelines that define necessary properties of secure signature-generation systems. A digital signature is an electronic token that...
[October 5, 2009, 0:00]
50 license Pack - Attack Shield Worm Suppression - Optimized for Norton AntiVirus
Downloads Attack Shield Worm Suppression (WS) provides built-in protection for Microsoft Windows core services at the operating system (OS) level from code injection exploits, the largest risk class of Internet attacks, without any end-user administration...
[February 20, 2005, 6:00]
75 license Pack - Attack Shield Worm Suppression - Optimized for Norton AntiVirus
Downloads Attack Shield Worm Suppression (WS) provides built-in protection for Microsoft Windows core services at the operating system (OS) level from code injection exploits, the largest risk class of Internet attacks, without any end-user administration...
[February 20, 2005, 6:00]
Handheld security in the Palm of your hand
News Unlike traditional password protection systems, your signature cannot easily be guessed or forgotten. Well now you can, thanks to revolutionary signature recognition software from US company Communication Intelligence Corporation (CIC).
[October 19, 1999, 17:17]
Windows XP Service Pack 2 review
Reviews In addition to providing a single interface for monitoring your system's firewall, (either Microsoft's or a third party's), Automatic Updates, and your third-party antivirus program, it tracks certain antivirus programs to make sure they and their...
[August 12, 2004, 9:25]
Flaws found in BSD, Linux software updaters
News In the case of many distributions, the signatures either never expire or the package manager used by the distribution isn't set up to support signature expiry. Administrators can protect their systems in the short term by using trusted repositories...
[July 14, 2008, 17:08]
Apple fixes downloads vulnerability
News Packages presented via the Software Update mechanism are now cryptographically signed, and the new Software Update client 1.4.6 checks for a valid signature before installing new packages," Apple said on the site.
[July 16, 2002, 10:23]
Vital intrusion detection
News It detects unauthorised activity navigating the network by analysing traffic against rules-based signature files. When unauthorised activity is detected, the sensor can send alarms to a management console with details of the activity and can...
[May 15, 2002, 14:49]
OpenSSL hit by forgery bug
News The flaw only affects a particular type of signature — PKCS #1 v1.5 signatures — but these are used by some certificate authorities. If an RSA key with exponent 3 is used, it may be possible to forge a PKCS #1 v1.5 signature signed by that key...
[September 22, 2006, 16:20]
Centrally managed antivirus software
News Because such systems store the virus signature/definition files in a single location -- usually a network server -- this server becomes a single point of failure for the entire system. Most virus signature/definition files are somewhere between 1...
[January 8, 2003, 8:45]
Gates predicts death of the password
News This information is put through an algorithm to create a digital signature in the form of a barcode, which is also printed onto the ID card. If any of the information on the ID card is altered, it will not correlate to the signature and the card is...
[February 25, 2004, 7:20]
Security hardware battle heats up
News V-Secure IPS 8.0 offers signature-enabled intrusion prevention technology, which serves as a way to verify the appropriate user is gaining access to the network and information. Internet Security Systems has added two new models to its flagship...
[April 5, 2005, 9:15]
PC-cillin Internet Security 11 review
Reviews According to Trend Micro, you can access almost all functions within PC-cillin 11 with two mouse clicks or fewer (for the record, it took us three clicks to start a viral signature update, but we're not complaining).
[January 12, 2004, 9:55]
Microsoft plans new Web services push
News Visual Studio.Net, Microsoft's development tool package, will be updated later this year to allow developers to add digital signature support and SOAP message encryption; Microsoft seems more sensitive to what companies need to secure systems...
[June 6, 2002, 9:42]
Mobile banking: ease-of-use is more important than trust, really?
Blog Vasco’s Digipass for Mobile provides two authentication applications, first of all a response only authentication code and a second application that can either be a challenge/response authentication code or e-signature.
[October 30, 2008, 18:20]
PGP Personal Security 7.03 review
Reviews I then send you your own public key so you can get my signature of your key. Most computers that stay put in an office don't really need encryption -- if other proper security systems are in place. Disk encryption slows the systems down, increases...
[July 13, 2001, 0:00]
IDS: The integrated partner for your firewall
News While signature-based detection is a solid system, protocol-anomaly detection can be used to identify the various attacks that do not follow normal patterns. Stateful signature detectionProtocol anomaly detectionBackdoor detection
[April 23, 2003, 8:33]
Help & HowTo: Slammer
News A McAfee ThreatScan signature update is available to locate unpatched Microsoft SQL 2000 servers. Use secure file systems. Assign a strong systems administrator password. Delete or secure old setup files.
[January 27, 2003, 10:18]
Digital Signatures for the Pharmaceutical Industry
White Papers Typical examples of digital signature use within the pharmaceutical industry include systems and processes such as electronic submissions, RA/QA, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), clinical operations, manufacturing instructions, electronic...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
RSA: Split passwords make secrets safer
News It could be used for strong secrets such as a bank's signature key. Breaking passwords in two and storing them in two places will make systems more secure, said RSA Security at its eponymous security show in San Francisco on Tuesday.
[April 16, 2003, 8:54]
