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whitepaper This "virtual appliance" offers all of Proofpoint's anti-spam, anti-virus, secure messaging, data privacy and intellectual property leak prevention features in an easy-to-deploy package for VMware's virtualization products.
[07 Apr 2008]
Comment When a data leak is detected the DLP tool can block the leak or warn the user and also provide an audit trail for compliance. Data leaks are a growing problem. Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting out, let alone how to stop it.
[19 Mar 2008]
Comment Companies should also develop policies around use of portable storage devices such as CDs and USB memory sticks and consider using technologies to block their use so that they cannot be used to leak data out of an organisation.
[18 Mar 2008]
whitepaper This is an increasingly common problem that can severely harm individuals and corporations - for instance, a single email leak can potentially cause expensive law suits, brand reputation damage, negotiation setbacks and severe financial losses.
[19 Feb 2008]
whitepaper This is an increasingly common problem that can severely harm individuals and corporations - for instance, a single email leak can potentially cause expensive law suits, brand reputation damage, negotiation setbacks and severe financial losses.
[19 Feb 2008]
whitepaper Whether through malice or neglect, organizational data leaks occur daily. Research demonstrates the potential for devastating corporate losses in the wake of such incidents - in terms of customers, litigation, penalties and reputation.
[24 Oct 2007]
News The import placed on data security by UK consumers is in line with silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign (see grey box) - which has called on the UK government to bring in legislation to ensure organisations that suffer a breach of security must...
[10 Oct 2007]
News The fallout from HP's boardroom leak scandal continued as three silicon.com sister site CNET News.com reporters sued the computer maker, alleging its investigation tactics amounted to an invasion of privacy and a violation of state rules on...
[16 Aug 2007]
News Passing a data security breach law is one of the most important advances the UK could make to improve internet security, according to an influential House of Lords committee. And the government should begin consultation on the scope of such a law...
[10 Aug 2007]
News The patch also addresses problems with file transfer 'estimated time remaining' speeds, offline file corruption during synchronisation to a server and memory-leak and management problems. Microsoft has released two updates for Windows Vista.
[10 Aug 2007]
News Last month silicon.com launched its Full Disclosure campaign which calls on the UK government to rethink its existing legislation and require all companies and organisations that lose their customers' sensitive data to warn those individuals a...
[02 Aug 2007]
News For example, a financial services company that suffers a leak of customer information is pretty much obliged to notify the Financial Services Authority, while a retailer that loses credit card details is likely to have to proactively notify its...
[24 Jul 2007]
whitepaper This presentation explains how to detect memory leaks using System Performance Monitor in Microsoft Windows 2000.
[23 Jul 2007]
News Nearly one-third of UK business PCs still have sensitive data on them when they are discarded, according to research commissioned by Lenovo. Many companies simply erase data or format the disk on the PC, which leaves information easy to access, the...
[09 Jul 2007]
whitepaper The paper discusses the time the web sites take to respond to HTTP requests can leak private information, using two different types of attacks. The first, direct timing, directly measures response times from a web site to expose private information...
[20 Jun 2007]
whitepaper Furthermore, the power spectrum leak across subbands caused by motion compensation is another serious reason. This paper investigates the spatial scalability in 3D wavelet coding with spatial-domain MCTF encoder.
[25 May 2007]
News HP and US regulators have settled allegations concerning an investigation the company launched last year to uncover a boardroom leak. HP "failed to disclose the reasons" that a board member had resigned, according to a statement released by the...
[24 May 2007]
Round-Up 'What do we want? Windows XP! When do we want it? NOW! A few years back Microsoft could have only dreamed of such levels of user evangelism for its flagship software. It would, no doubt, have been a source of pure joy for the software giant's...
[27 Apr 2007]
whitepaper The leak detection algorithm is based on an underlying escape analysis: any allocated location in a procedure P that is not deallocated in P and does not escape from P is leaked. This paper presents a context- and path-sensitive algorithm for...
[18 Apr 2007]
News A possible computer security breach at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) may have put 46,000 campus and medical centre faculty, staff and students at risk of identity fraud. Personal information, including names, Social Security...
[05 Apr 2007]
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