pc security in comment and analysis
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment At the consumer end of the market, most of us today own a PC and have a fast broadband connection of sorts and yet where in my contract as a parent, did it say that I had to fulfil the role of family IT, security and network manager? [17 Jul 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment I'd be interested to see the fall in the number of new PC sales after this date has passed. Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ The McCue Interview: Martin Taylor, group CIO, LCH.Clearnet... [19 Jun 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.05.08
Round-Up Faced with a 30 June deadline to stop shipping computers with Windows XP, the world's PC makers are getting creative. The way it works is thus: by taking advantage of the "downgrade rights" offered as part of the Windows Vista licence agreement, PC... [02 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…
Comment Except the PC manufacturers who sell the machine with one OS and have to support and provide drivers for a different OS. Being a long time PC user, I'm predisposed to dislike Apple. Make "Data Security Director" a position with statutory authority... [01 May 2008]
Legal Eye: Could you end up footing your e-crime bill?
Comment Defining reasonable care and allowing for genuine technical failures or inadvertent security breaches - particularly if the customer is banking on a work or public PC - will certainly test its application. [15 Apr 2008]
How closely are you monitoring?
Comment A PC will give systems management tools a certain amount of information back through the Windows management instrumentation (WMI) built into Windows, says David Solin, R&D solutions architect within the CTO's office at software vendor BMC. [10 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... work and play, mobiles on planes, data leaks...
Comment Death to the PC? Mobile phones to kill off the desktop PC? My T-Mob Vario II is a lifeline when I'm away from a PC. It is right that businesses should look carefully at the security threat posed by staff, but many of these articles are... [25 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... modern malware, Vista sales, Bluetooth ads...
Comment I use proper antivirus (etc), updated hourly, so viruses arriving on my PC are detected and cannot cause infection. My PC has never been infected by a virus/worm/trojan, which you say is "lucky". The suprise is the week the log shows no nasties... [04 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Ranking everything
Comment I'm working from home today and have compared my download/upload speeds over a home PC and a work laptop, both connected by Ethernet cables to the same router - rather than wi-fi, in the laptop's case, which I know would be slower. [13 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment As I returned to the UK I heard the sound of major deals being done in hardware, more precisely the rather staid PC industry seeing Taiwan's Acer announce its purchase of Gateway, with implications for the future of Packard Bell, which had been in... [29 Aug 2007]
Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred
Comment Predictably, the perceived cost of Macs is a major barrier and a common argument for choosing a PC. It also has a ready-made desktop PC replacement with the Mac Mini, which ships without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. [19 Jul 2007]
Virtualisation gets trendy
Comment An example of the first kind of virtualisation is partitioning a PC disk into smaller virtual drives, while an example of the second is combining a number of separate disks to make them appear as one physical disk (as in a storage network). [15 May 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 11.05.07
Round-Up True, he probably still couldn't switch on a PC if his life depended on it but this week Blair used YouTube to get his message out. If news that Tony Blair has finally 'got' the internet came as a huge surprise to everybody familiar with the famous... [11 May 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. [26 Apr 2007]
Network horror stories expose need for understanding
Comment Have you heard the one about the financial services organisation whose employees had a competition each day for the colleague who could best beat the URL filtering system and access the most inappropriate content on their desktop PC? [12 Apr 2007]
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