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Anti-ageism legislation isn't working, say IT pros
News The result is largely unchanged from last year's survey - suggesting anti-ageism legislation passed by the UK government back in October 2006, that made it illegal to discriminate against individuals based on their age during the hiring... [01 Dec 2009]
Mini laptops, codebreaking, Wikipedia and why there's no 'British Google'
News And from cutting-edge tech to vintage techies - some of the surviving veterans who worked on the Colossus codebreaking machine and helped crack the Nazi military's codes during the Second World War talked to... [30 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can I become faster and smarter?
Comment Conventional search techniques cannot crack this problem and we need to employ new thinking and new techniques. I just cannot work any faster or smarter - I seem to have exhausted every degree of freedom, every element... [30 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park's World War Two codebreakers in their own words
News At the event, silicon.com spoke to men and women who worked on the Colossus codebreaking machine and helped crack the Nazi military's codes. The Colossus was the world's first programmable electronic computer and was... [05 Nov 2009]
Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
News The Foreign Secretary was speaking at the manor house at Bletchley Park, where he presented commemorative medals to 35 veterans who were part of the 10,000-strong team that helped crack the codes used by the German,... [13 Oct 2009]
Intel: How chip maker is tackling the changing datacentre
News He noted that there are people out there who are trying to "crack transactions on the internet", among other criminal activities, and that Intel is building technology directly into the chip architecture that will help... [23 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Google Chrome
Cheat Sheet Google is clearly keen to have a crack at challenging Microsoft's dominance. So Google's invented its own metal now has it? Erm, no - Chrome is Google's open source web browser that launched around a year ago. [22 Sep 2009]
Microsoft files lawsuits in malicious-ad crackdown
News Aiming to crack down on a growing problem, Microsoft said it filed five lawsuits on Thursday against parties it suspects of posting online advertisements laden with malicious code. Microsoft has tried to work with ad... [18 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo During the Second World War these women pictured helped crack the codes used by the Nazis to protect communications. Many of the veterans returning to Bletchley on Sunday were the Royal Navy Wrens who worked on the... [07 Sep 2009]
Open source hack could make mobiles vulnerable to prying ears
News Security researcher Karsten Nohl is launching an open-source, distributed computing project designed to crack the encryption used on GSM phones and compile it into a code book that can be used to decode conversations and... [26 Aug 2009]
Is there hope for unified comms?
Comment And, of course, as a relatively untapped market at the moment, suppliers that crack this segment can make significant gains. Businesses have been slow to adopt unified communications, but Freeform Dynamics's Josie... [22 Jun 2009]
WEP Cloaking for Legacy Encryption Protection
White Paper Motorola's WEP Cloaking module leverages the Motorola Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) using wireless monitoring sensors to protect handheld devices, in use at thousands of retailers world-wide, from passive and active... [20 Jun 2009]
Yahoo! Mail welcomes PayPal and Picnik
News s beta programs will be the first to get a crack at the new services, with the applications coming to the wider user base over the next several months. Yahoo! has added new applications in another step towards giving its... [08 Jun 2009]
Securing Wireless Networks Internally
White Paper However, it has become increasingly easier to crack WEP encrypted networks and cracking WPA/WPA2 networks is difficult, but feasible. WEP, WPA/WPA2, and the associated authentication methods are designed to keep invaders... [01 May 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment Poe was fascinated by cryptography, often concealing hidden messages in his works, and even once challenged his readers to submit their codes to him - which he then claimed to crack. The RSA Conference in San Francisco,... [21 Apr 2009]
