computer security in comment and analysis
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Secure remote access closes in
Comment Virtual private networks that use internet protocol security used to be seen as a nightmare. Those consequences mean technologies that provide remote access to computer networks must be highly secure. [25 Jul 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Is there really a skills crisis?
Comment Schools are boring IT students to death, and it's the fault of universities that computer games companies are struggling to recruit. As a result, it seems that criminal groups are picking up practices that were once the province of large companies... [09 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly, unleashed a tidal wave of tech nostalgia by asking the deceptively simple question: what was your first home computer? While many approved of the ZX Spectrum being crowned king - including one... [22 Apr 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers. Computer intrusion mainly focuses on criminal hacking and distributed denial of service attacks but also deals with... [15 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…
Comment On the bright side, thanks to passengers refusing to be finger printed, problems with the "high-tech" computer security systems failing were avoided and as a result planes managed to leave the airport with passengers onboard. [03 Apr 2008]
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment With an educational background in computer science he went on to become global CIO for logistics company DHL and then CIO for Lenovo Group where he helped lead the initial stages of the $11bn spin-off from IBM in 2005. [01 Apr 2008]
Box-tickers risk serious data breaches
Comment Simply throwing a firewall at your system won't cut it, says Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University's computer laboratory. Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new... [28 Mar 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment By converging physical and logical access controls, access to the computer network can be denied to all those who have failed to present their security badge when entering the organisation's facilities. [18 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Michael Small, director of security management strategy at Computer Associates, says: "Malice, misuse and mistake. And network security company eSoft reports that the number of sites seeking to install malicious software on an end user's computer... [10 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment The argument reminded me of a concept in cryptography and computer security known as security by obscurity. Of course that concept stands in contrast to the idea of security by design, where it is built in from the start. [06 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment Yet corporate losses from computer crime have reportedly doubled and the incidence of identity theft among the broader population continues to rise dramatically. Companies have been developing their security counter-measures to deal with the more... [27 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up Another reason is that Vista PCs which aren't properly activated are automatically made unusable due to a bit of technology that switches off many features with the computer entering a "reduced functionality mode". [07 Dec 2007]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment The web has become the next key security battleground as computer criminals take advantage of the ubiquity of browsers. The web is already the main target for security attacks. Alarmingly, this could allow an attacker to access a user's internet... [26 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?
Comment UK's worst security breach Then there are the potenial threats to the security of the data on your own machine. Don't leave security to chance, you may regret it later, please secure your wi-fi. Whilst they're there they might as well look at any... [22 Nov 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment This means these attacks are often targeted at C-level executives who are not always the most security-savvy computer users. The first computer viruses infected the boot sector of floppy disks, which were the main way of sharing files between... [19 Nov 2007]
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