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RFID-chipped passports cross the pond

News The document will also employ a cryptographic technique called Basic Access Control, which means the RFID chip unveils its contents only after a reader successfully authenticates itself as being authorized to receive that information. [15 Aug 2006]

New Vista preview comes out to play

News Tighter control over removable storage devices lets system administrators centrally block the installation of, for example, USB flash drives and external hard drives. BitLocker Drive Encryption is meant to protect data on computers when lost or... [20 Dec 2005]

Windows hacks available on the net

News The warning comes after several security programmers released source code that makes it easy for an attacker to take control of any Windows computer that has not applied a patch released by Microsoft. [29 Apr 2004]

New Phatbot worm out there?

News The worm probes Transmission Control Protocol ports 2745, 1025, 3127, 6129, 5000, 80 and 1433, as well as Microsoft's NetBIOS, according to the SANS report. SANS is currently in the process of attempting to capture a full packet of data - or an... [20 Apr 2004]

Gates reveals consumer dream - PC-TV hook-up

News The software, only available preinstalled on new PCs configured for entertainment tasks, allows consumers to use a remote control to navigate music files, digital photos and other media stored on the PC. [08 Jan 2004]

IBM continues utility push

News IBM's Tivoli Intelligent Orchestrator software has a starting price of $20,000 and costs more if it's used to control more servers. Although the software can control several products, subsets can be purchased as a bundle - for example, just the... [08 Oct 2003]

Passport problems could hit Microsoft in the wallet

News Provisions in the agreement call for the company to pursue the "design and implementation of reasonable safeguards to control the risks" to a customer's information. Passport accounts are central repositories for a person's online data and can... [09 May 2003]

PlayStation 2 taps into grid computing

News The grid solves a lot of problems, but the developer is still in control of the content--they can make whatever deals they want as far as marketing, distribution, accounting," Levine said. Game developers and gamers in general have always pushed... [27 Feb 2003]

IBM puts a penguin in its Tank

News IBM's goal is for the system to control as many as a billion files, said Jai Menon, an IBM fellow and storage research manager at Big Blue's Almaden Research Center. With Storage Tank, existing systems can be linked, so vaster amounts of data can... [23 Dec 2002]

Sun touts savings via "N1" project

News The company says that a single administrator will be able to control 100 terabytes of storage space instead of one terabyte, while a team of server administrators will be able to govern 500 servers instead of 30. [20 Sep 2002]

More details this week on Sun's Big Idea - N1

News Second, IBM and HP have management software - IBM's Tivoli and HP's OpenView - that can control not only their equipment but other companies' products as well. Its two biggest competitors, HP and IBM, have similar efforts underway called 'utility... [18 Sep 2002]

It's IP Christmas from Cisco

News Cisco's announcement also included software products, such as the CallManager 3.2, Emergency Responder, Media Gateway Control Protocol and the IP Contact Center bundle. In the largest product release in recent years, Cisco has unveiled a new range... [29 Oct 2001]

Symantec detects first Java virus

News The virus gains control by searching in the directory for other '.class' files eligible for corruption and reproduces itself. Nachenberg explained: "These files are programs which contain data and some logic. [20 Aug 1998]

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