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Cheat Sheet: Data Protection Act 1998

Cheat Sheet This means it has to be relevant to all the uses registered, including the type of information held, the purposes of the processing, the type of people who may be given access to it and the length of time that it might be on file.

Tags: security, data protection act

[28 Aug 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Grey nets

Cheat Sheet What about something like file sharing on peer-to-peer networks? Well, a bit of bicarbonate of soda in your wash will get those curtains sparkling. I'm laughing inside, truly. But these grey nets are not really grey and they're not really nets.

Tags: grey net, security, im

[06 Jul 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Wikis

Cheat Sheet Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales also created a list of 10 things that should be free (both free as in speech and free as in beer), including school curricula, TV listings and file formats. These are the people with the encyclopaedia, right?

Tags: wiki

[16 Aug 2005]

Cheat Sheet: Social engineering

Cheat Sheet An email arrives which promises smutty pictures of one of the aforementioned and although they know they shouldn't there are still enough gullible recipients who are tempted to click on the file. Often this will involve a promise of a sensational...

Tags: social, engineering

[15 Nov 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Virus names and alerts

Cheat Sheet However, other vendors only have a signature that's capable of detecting the previous variant, so they need another identity file - and therefore another virus name. OK, well I know what computer viruses are so this should be straightforward - the...

Tags: alert, virus, cheat sheet, netsky

[08 Nov 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Computer viruses

Cheat Sheet: Computer viruses

Cheat Sheet A second line of defence is to treat email attachments with suspicion: save attachments to disk and then check with a virus scanner before opening the file. A computer virus is a program designed to spread itself by first infecting executable files...

[26 Mar 2002]

Cheat Sheet: Micropayments

Cheat Sheet: Micropayments

Cheat Sheet On 22 March News Corporation will file a patent for its system which uses mobile phone numbers to let visitors unlock certain pieces of content on Times Online and then add that cost to their monthly bill.

[21 Mar 2002]

Cheat Sheet: The Microsoft antitrust case

Cheat Sheet: The Microsoft antitrust case

Cheat Sheet Chairman Gates, unsurprisingly enough, didn't like this ruling and ordered his legal minions to file, refile and file again until he got a result he liked. The main problem is that it reckons Microsoft was a bully, carried out unsavoury business...

[24 Jan 2002]

Cheat Sheet: Cookies

Cheat Sheet: Cookies

Cheat Sheet Internet Explorer stores each cookie as a separate file under a Windows directory, Netscape stores all cookies in a single cookies.txt file and Opera stores them in a single cookies.dat file. It looks like a small text file, often only just 1KB in...

[29 Nov 2001]

Cheat Sheet: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Cheat Sheet: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Cheat Sheet Large file transfer, off-site storage, disaster recovery, video conferencing and other streaming applications. Originally created in the 1970s by Valley's networking firms, Ethernet ran at 10Mbps and provided fast file- and resource-sharing between...

[31 Oct 2001]

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