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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport insecurity

Comment So, continuously travelling with scissors, nail file, tweezers and my full mini-electrical tool kit I have traversed the planet unchallenged and unimpeded. Neither airport's security systems spotted my nail file, tweezers or toolkit.

Tags: travel, airports, security

[29 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... File-sharers, women in tech and the price of 'experts'

Comment Europe: Don't ban internet file-sharers File-sharers: To ban, or not to ban? Perhaps it's time the music industry started to embrace music file distribution instead of fighting it. The latest in the debate over music downloaders and sharers also...

Tags: file-sharers, home office, women

[17 Apr 2008]

How to detect data leaks

Comment Ever-increasing email attachment file sizes and multi-gigabyte removable storage is driving an alarming increase in the volume of data leaking from companies. Data leaks are a growing problem. Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting...

Tags: security, data protection, data leaks, comply

[19 Mar 2008]

Outsourcing - life after the contract

Comment These should be kept in both a physical file and a computer file for electronic evidence. But the work is not all done just because the ink has dried on the paper, argues Paul Bentham. UK public sector outsourcing has overrun by billions, according...

Tags: contracts, legal, outsourcing, objectives

[12 Mar 2008]

Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…

Comment Illegal file-sharing: Gov't says enough is enough ¦ The Naked CIO: Identity crisis ¦ Revealed: The full cost of a corporate data breach ¦ Open source gains business credibility ¦ Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Tags: biometrics, id cards, file sharing, gains

[28 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?

Comment To avoid branding all file-sharers as criminals, blocking techniques will need to become more sophisticated and closely regulated. Not all aspects of file-sharing are illegal and distinguishing the legitimate from the malicious will not be easy.

Tags: law, isps, downloads, piracy

[22 Feb 2008]

Tiscali CEO: Bandwidth is key to fat pipe nation

Comment Because if you look at what the internet has been used for it has been used for email, surfing, file transfers and 1 or 2Mbps broadband is more than sufficient. Mary Turner heads up the operations of ISP Tiscali UK, occupying the CEO's chair since...

Tags: bandwidth, broadband, tiscali, talking

[21 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up A report in The Times on Tuesday suggested ISPs could be legally required to take action against file-sharers, which is hardly going to be music to the ears of ISPs. The body representing ISPs says they would prefer a voluntary agreement, but the...

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense

Comment Hot on its heels comes a second judgment, in which Autonomy Corporation appealed against the UK IPO's refusal to grant a patent to a program that analysed a file in an open window, searched the user's computer for files with similar or relevant...

Tags: patent, high court, software, law

[13 Feb 2008]

Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…

Comment Always file on the last day, not because you are lazy but because sometimes there can be significant advantages. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are...

Tags: hmrc, ebay, vista, driving

[07 Feb 2008]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Trying to explain

Comment From now on when my silver surfer friends ask me what a wiki is or about photos online, file sharing and more, I'm just going to point them at this website. Written at my home in Suffolk UK and dispatched to silicon.com from the Wild Strawberry...

Tags: video, www, wi fi, talk

[14 Jan 2008]

Banking can execute change in real-time

Comment Having customer information stored on a historical information file means data is almost always out of date. Not so, says Steve Boyle. The latest thinking in information processing could save the banks billions every year.

Tags: change management, banking, legacy, accuracy

[02 Jan 2008]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment While many rank and file industry observers forecast a great leap for creative alternate services, some raise a red flag. This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard...

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?

Comment I have one of our test Vista machines and it is far from stable, slow to browse file shares and still incompatible with various software. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week?

Tags: vista, iphone, hmrc, microsoft

[29 Nov 2007]

Web 2.0 threat looms

Comment XSS is one of the top 10 web application vulnerabilities identified by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), along with injection attacks and malicious file execution. The web is already the main target for security attacks.

Tags: malware, social networking, security, web 2.0

[26 Nov 2007]

Niklas Zennström

AS Profile Before Skype, Zennström founded P2P software firm Joltid, and file-sharing software company Kazaa - which means he's got a track record that should have competitors quivering in their boots. Niklas Zennström may have sold Skype to eBay in 2005 but...

[12 Oct 2007]

Good and bad year for comms

AS Analysis He did it at file-sharing player Kazaa, then at Skype, which ended up sold for billions to eBay, and now his latest brainchild, video-over-the-web start-up Joost, is taking off. The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations...

[12 Oct 2007]

Editor's Blog: 'It was taken out of context... '

Comment Not only could the newspaper say it could prove what the interview subject had said - it could place the words as an audio file on its website. I was interested earlier this week to read the conclusion of the incident between England cricket...

Tags: cricket, michael vaughan, journalism

[15 Jun 2007]

Editor's Blog: Grey areas, honesty and naivety

Comment Without touching a colleague's PC and doing nothing more pernicious than apparently asking the colleague to print a file from the key, Andre Muscat from security vendor GFI Software was able to steal all manner of data and passwords.

Tags: security, infosec

[26 Apr 2007]

Is Skype secure enough for businesses?

Comment Secondly, file transfers can be scanned by major antivirus products. Though Skype touts security features, is it safe enough to be a serious option for businesses? Stewart Baines hears from the sceptics and explains how to secure the popular VoIP...

Tags: social engineering, spoofing, spit, vishing

[02 Apr 2007]

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