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iPhone nano: Fact or fiction?
Comment Photoshop cowboys have long made merry with Apple myths, distributing images online of dinky iPhones or dainty flip versions - another rumour fuelled by yet another Apple patent (of which the company files many, most of which are considered... [05 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Autosync, at last
Comment So it is a matter of routine to be able to access files or control applications on a remote PC or server. Written while flying from London to Rome and dispatched on arrival at my hotel via a 3G HSDPA data service. [22 Jul 2008]
FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat
Comment They are open and people can put links or trade files with somebody. Scott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers. The cyber division is one of the faster growing... [15 Apr 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Of course the loss of data happens in business too - such as the loss by TK Maxx of 45 million customer credit files. High-profile data breaches and new laws have put encryption back in the limelight. [27 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Countless more sensitive files must be lost every day on USB drives when someone downloads accounts records to work from home but mislays the flash drive en route or emails it to the wrong address. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is... [10 Mar 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... [13 Feb 2008]
Whose data is it anyway?
Comment But the loss of millions of data files by HMRC suggests it was not the best time to be making an argument for how the public sector could and should be doing more with the information it collects. The loss of two CDs containing the data of 25... [17 Dec 2007]
Filtering's ding-dong fight with malicious spam
Comment Towards the end of 2007, spammers were also investigating the potential of MP3 and Excel files and prime candidates for 2008 are PowerPoint presentations or even Flash and video files. But as the threat has evolved, so have the filtering techniques... [10 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data breach row, hotel iMac, wi-fi piggybacking: yay or nay?
Comment Whilst they're there they might as well look at any files on your computer. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. UK's worst security breach [22 Nov 2007]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Instead of deleting files, it contained an email engine and turned over access of the infected machine to gangs who could use it to send spam. One of the most successful of this generation was the so-called Love Bug, which in 2000 reportedly... [19 Nov 2007]
Minority Report: Apple's blues
Comment Fixes to the problem soon appeared on the website and, with the exception of the incredibly silly people who decided to upgrade their system software without backing up their files first, there was no permanent damage. [05 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment What about systems where no single individual has keys to all the encrypted files, such as the FreeNet P2P (peer-to-peer) project? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [11 Oct 2007]
Speeding up the net - is it possible?
Comment Control means first making sure employees are focused on the things they should be doing and not inadvertently consuming bandwidth for non-work purposes such as browsing YouTube, downloading MP3 files or keeping up with the cricket via IPTV. [09 Jul 2007]
Minority Report: Steve Jobs fails to wow
Comment The Leopard features announced this week were mostly solid additions to the product: the revised Finder (which now has a very 'iTunes' look and feel), Quick Look (for previewing documents without opening them) and Stacks (a way of arranging... [15 Jun 2007]
Editor's Blog: 'It was taken out of context... '
Comment But every big event - a one-to-one with a major CIO or CEO or perhaps an important press conference - usually gets the Dictaphone treatment and those files are backed up and kept. And expect many publications beyond The Guardian to start posting... [15 Jun 2007]
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