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The Virtual Safe: A User-Focused Approach to Data Encryption
White Paper The virtual safe provides the ease of use of full-disk encryption without any of the accompanying security or data portability flaws, but with the speed and flexibility of file-based encryption. Encryption is an... [01 Apr 2009]
Inbox: Government IT ignoring red lights?
Comment Work stops on £224m kids' database after security flaws found The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Government IT took a beating, with... [30 Mar 2009]
Web Application Security: Too costly to ignore
White Paper The number of web attacks is on the rise and is exponentially more cost effective to remedy those flaws early in the development process. Web application security is crucial to mitigating the risks of attack and... [18 Mar 2009]
Bluetooth Security
White Paper Then it points out flaws and possible security holes in the Bluetooth Security Specification. Bluetooth is a way of connecting machines to each other without cables or any other physical medium. It uses radio waves to... [16 Mar 2009]
Top 10 Concerns: Legacy Archiving Solutions
White Paper The confluence of markets and increases in email archiving demands has exposed the flaws of legacy archiving solutions. Many organizations are dissatisfied and looking to replace their old products with a new,... [07 Mar 2009]
Barclays cards make contact with RFID tech
News Researchers Ross Anderson, Saar Drimer and Murdoch published a paper on Thursday detailing security flaws in the Chip Authentication Programme (CAP) used for UK payments cards. As of yesterday, Barclays customers getting... [03 Mar 2009]
Indian tech giants to transform UK government?
News Woodford hopes the group can heal the fundamental flaws in the UK's approach to government IT that could make it difficult for TCS and its competitors to transplant their Indian success. India's tech giants are in the... [16 Feb 2009]
Web Application Security Testing With the Security Center and Nessus
White Paper The detection of Application-layer flaws within HTTP applications has become a major source of activity for many enterprise security groups. Source code audits are one means of finding these security holes. [06 Feb 2009]
Can IT be a green hero?
News The systemic flaws in the economy are what we really need to deal with. Despite its power-guzzling nature, IT could be the key to helping address environmental issues. Speaking at an event in London this week,... [05 Feb 2009]
Inbox: Home Office hacking powers go too far
Comment This means that firewalls and antivirus must have flaws to be exploited by the police, thus opening a great big door for cybercrime. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader... [23 Jan 2009]
Bell Canada Leverages Zend Platform for Montreal Exchange
White Paper Aware that certain of their websites and web applications had flaws, the Montreal Exchange has decided to gradually migrate them to a more robust architecture. Montreal Exchange (MX) is the Canadian derivatives exchange. [21 Jan 2009]
A first look at Windows 7 in action
Comment Despite its obvious flaws and acknowledging that some of its features need to be disabled by default, Vista at heart is a much more stable and usable operating system than XP, which was first released back in 2001. [08 Jan 2009]
MSDN Webcast: Penetration Testing With Visual Studio Team System and Fortify Security Tester (Level 200)
White Paper The attendee of this webcast will learn how to use the Fortify Security Tester to find the root cause of security flaws, not just the symptoms. Many organizations rely on application penetration testing to help identify... [31 Dec 2008]
SQL Server vulnerability warning from Microsoft
News The advisory comes less than a week after Microsoft released a critical security patch to plug vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer amid malicious attackers taking advantage of the security flaws. Microsoft has issued an... [23 Dec 2008]
Apply Visual Studio Code Analysis to Beef Up Security
White Paper Source code reviews and inspections have long been considered economical methods for rooting out functional and design flaws in code even before applications make their way to testing. As security has grown in... [22 Dec 2008]