Customer data found on eBay server highlights people as weak link
Blog And, secondly, they continue to concentrate on technological measures, when the weakest link is still the people. The recent news about customer details being retrieved from a server sold on eBay is yet another story about the sorry state of...
[August 28, 2008, 14:33]
Who's the Weak Link Now?
Downloads Has Anne Robinson got you frustrated? Want to give her a taste of her own medicine? Feel free to knock her around a bit in this fun, ping-pong-like game.
[January 24, 2002, 6:00]
Hijacked Web addresses show weak link in Net
News Web.net, an email and information site for 3,500 charities and volunteer groups, and holiday website Bali.com had their domain names re-registered to people in Hong Kong and Madrid respectively. The registrar handling those names, Network Solutions...
[June 9, 2000, 15:49]
A Year Ago: Hijacked Web addresses show weak link in Net
News Web.net, an email and information site for 3,500 charities and volunteer groups, and holiday website Bali.com had their domain names re-registered to people in Hong Kong and Madrid respectively. The registrar handling those names, Network Solutions...
[June 9, 2001, 6:28]
Photos: Famous fraudster hits out at ID cards
News At a press Q&A session before his keynote, Abagnale said that one weak link in an organisation can compromise the whole system. With the ID cards scheme, all it takes is one weak civil servant to be bought off, and one weak link can [compromise the...
[October 25, 2007, 13:25]
Catching up with a famous fraudster
News In a Q&A session before his keynote at the RSA Conference Europe 2007, Abagnale spoke to ZDNet.co.uk about security projects such as the UK ID scheme and explained how one weak link can compromise a whole organisation.
[November 1, 2007, 11:37]
PlusNet admits human error in email disaster
Talkback humans are also the weak link in security systems.we are weak, we need replacing with bots.
[July 14, 2006, 17:20]
Protect Your Data Via Managed Code and the Windows Vista Smart Card APIs
White Papers Smart cards are a compelling alternative to the weak link of authentication systems: passwords. The industry is hungry for password-replacement technologies. Via an embedded cryptographic processor, smart cards provide a very secure and easy-to-use...
[September 11, 2009, 2:03]
Gates takes a side-swipe at Apple, Linux security
Talkback considering the fact that microsoft is the weak link in this equation, i.e it is used as the transport agent for the attack, one wonders what mr Gate's is on about. Microsoft's crust is all too readily cracked.
[January 27, 2004, 12:49]
Data Grids & SOA
White Papers This white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Discover why the data grid offers improved data access that can create a...
[October 15, 2009, 9:11]
Data Grids and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
White Papers This free white paper demonstrates that a data grid infrastructure, built with clustered cahing, can help you avoid "weak link" vulnerabilities that can sabotage SOA strategies. Learn: How the challenges of selecting an SOA strategy can affect the...
[March 13, 2009, 15:45]
Self-Tuning Disk Drives Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks and Heighten ROI
White Papers This has made the hard disk the weak link in system performance. The explosion of systems storage capacity has not been matched by the evolution of faster hard disks. This white paper explains how self-tuning technology maximizes hard disk...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Next Generation Supply Chain Strategic Planning Technology and Applications
White Papers Operational supply chain strategy remains the weak link in the market, mainly due to the degree of difficulty involved in using sophisticated models and complicated algorithms. What is supply chain strategic planning?
[December 5, 2003, 5:54]
Mondex demos smartcard-enabled mobile e-commerce
Talkback Soon we will be told that the card will be the weak link and we need the technology protected and implanted into the skin ( the right hand or the forhead) as cards can be lost or stolen or broken etc - for real security and privacy have it...
[June 29, 2006, 22:32]
Laptop Security Best Practices
White Papers The weak link in the security chain, the end user, is left ill-trained to protect the vulnerable mobile computer. Given the realities of an increasingly mobile workforce and the growing regulatory obligations of organizations, IT security...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Driving Company Security and Profitability Through Centralized Management for PC Endpoint Security
White Papers Leaving the administration of that software up to each individual user is a recipe for a security breach - again, a single computer with weak security is the proverbial weak link in company's security chain.
[October 6, 2009, 0:00]
Alarm over 'pharming' attacks review
Reviews However, this translation is also a weak link in the Internet's infrastructure. The danger here is that you no longer have to click an email link to hand over your personal information to identity thieves.
[February 21, 2005, 9:35]
Banks 'must try harder' on ID theft
News His point is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link: banks must not let their outsourcing partners become that weak link. Identity theft has been in the headlines again in recent weeks in both the US and in the UK, where an undercover...
[July 5, 2005, 11:40]
Online banking: Web services may create vulnerabilities
News How can a bank trust a Web service is not creating a weak link into its systems at any point along the way? The victim could click a seemingly trusted link that the hacker has embedded with malicious code, thereby revealing his or her credentials...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
Symbian's research chief on going open source
News Under the EPL, if you link to other software then there's no obligation on that other software to take the same licence. In fact, a straight reading of the GPL says if you link to other software then that other software falls under the same licence.
[October 23, 2008, 16:48]



