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RSS open universityThe Economics of Information Security: A Survey and Open Questions
White Paper The economics of information security has recently become a thriving and fast-moving discipline. As distributed systems are assembled from machines belonging to principals with divergent interests, one finds incentives becoming as... [11 Nov 2009]
Model-Based Security Analysis of the German Health Card Architecture
White Paper The use of health-care information systems has experienced an explosive growth. However, this usage carries critical risks concerning information security that are particularly significant for health-care systems, due both to the... [11 Nov 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Paul Haley, director of information technology at the University of Aberdeen said the total cost of migrating to open source, coupled with the size of educational discounts on proprietary software, means... [23 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment Andy Hopper is co-founder of the iconic Acorn Computers and currently head of the computer laboratory at the University of Cambridge.silicon.com's Nick Heath talks to Hopper about the BBC Micro, Acorn's early days and... [07 Oct 2009]
iPhones unshackled, IT wages revealed and outsourcing explained
News Once again, September saw another fresh crop of students head off to university for the first time, on their way to becoming the next generation of IT workers. Asked if tech graduates are finishing... [06 Oct 2009]
Introduction of SSL Protocol and OpenSSL Basic
White Paper OpenSSL is an open source, multi-platform implementation of the SSL. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a kind of cryptographic protocol that provides security and data integrity for communications over networks. [05 Oct 2009]
Higher Education With Virtualization
White Paper With the help of Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, the university deployed Dell PowerEdge servers with Intel Xeon processors running Xen open source virtualization software. Burapha... [02 Oct 2009]
Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Multiparty Applications in the Presence of Clock Drifts
White Paper A weak point in network-based applications is that they commonly open some known communication port(s), making themselves targets for Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Considering adversaries that can eavesdrop and launch... [02 Oct 2009]
Denial of Service Attacks in Networks With Tiny Buffers
White Paper If proven right, these results can open doors to building all-optical routers, since a major bottleneck in building such routers is the lack of large optical memories. Recently, several papers have studied the... [02 Oct 2009]
Introducing Traffic Analysis Attacks, Defences and Public Policy Issues.
White Paper Such traffic analysis techniques have been used in the closed military communities for a while but their systematic study is an emerging field in the open security community. A lot of traditional computer security has... [16 Sep 2009]
Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance
News Google plans to display portions of those books (rights-holders can specify how much Google is allowed to show) as part of the Google Book Search product and will also provide access to the books through public library terminals and... [09 Sep 2009]
Scientists Boost Productivity With User-Friendly High-Performance Solution
White Paper Scientists at the Centre of Informatics Science (CIS) at Nile University worked with Microsoft to migrate their open-source applications for bioinformatics to Windows HPC Server 2008. Nile... [01 Sep 2009]
Debellor: Open Source Modular Platform for Scalable Data Mining
White Paper This paper introduces Debellor (www.debellor.org) - an open source extensible data mining platform with stream-oriented architecture, where all data transfers between elementary algorithms take the form of a stream of... [29 Aug 2009]
Microsoft 'White-Fi' to solve interference worries in white space
News Researchers from the software giant, along with academics from Harvard University, have developed a protocol that the company claims could be the foundation for products that meet Federal Communications Commission... [20 Aug 2009]
Underwater robots, Google Moon, edible beetles and ID cards
Photo The Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge took place in July with seven university teams pitting their underwater robots against each other on a submarine obstacle course. The Routers of the Future project - a... [04 Aug 2009]
