machines in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Another modern day example of where you can see encryption at work is on the likes of DRM protection for music, where the music is coded so it cannot be played on unauthorised machines. An example of this is the work that went on at Bletchley Park... [28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet The virtualisation world is also more flexible - IT teams can shift virtual machines around the network without any manual work or the need to crawl under server room floors rearranging cables. Virtualisation? [04 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet These machines are to be sold to governments - one for every child. No, it's the $100 laptop. Basically some clever types are trying to build a load of laptops for poor children who can't afford to get on the internet. [29 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: M2M
Cheat Sheet It's pretty much doing what it says on the tin - it's where two machines communicate with each other without human intervention, typically over wireless networks (although M2M can also make use of good old-fashioned wired communications too). [09 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Two-factor authentication
Cheat Sheet Schneier also argues that attackers will simply lurk on users' machines - accessing via a Trojan (or backdoor vulnerability) - until the user has authenticated and then 'piggyback' into a secure session with that user. [24 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Federated identity
Cheat Sheet If you're a Lloyds customers you use the same form of authentication at ABN-AMRO, Citibank or NatWest machines, home or abroad, which all banks recognise - but it is the integrity of Lloyds' original record of you which is vouching for you - via... [20 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet The biggest grid working at the moment, part of the Large Hadron Collider, has over 6,000 machines in 78 countries, all working away on problems of particle physics. Grids connect up computers - usually not in the same building or even the same... [05 Jan 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Spyware
Cheat Sheet What we're talking about here are software applications that find their way onto users' machines for the purposes of, as the name suggests, spying on them. MessageLabs believes this is a result of spyware harvesting such information from users... [29 Jul 2004]
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