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Photos: Windows 7 - getting inside security
Photo Although AutoPlay was improved in Windows Vista, the granular control over it provided in Windows 7 is another threat vector that will seem revolutionary to Windows XP users. Here's a look at the security features of... [20 Oct 2009]
Photos: India's mega outsourcing training centre
Photo However, the pool has seen less use of late, as the threat of pay and job cuts due to the current economic recession has put pressure on trainees to work harder than ever to secure their future at Infosys. [23 Jun 2009]
Photos: Future safety tech on display
Photo If anything suspicious is picked up by the scanners, security officials could potentially use the UAV, as well as RFID chips in spectators' tickets, to track an individual and make sure they don't pose a threat to security. [15 Jan 2009]
Skills Survey 2008 in pictures
Photo Just under a third (28 per cent) of respondents agreed or strongly agreed offshoring is a threat, compared to a third who believed this in 2007, and more than a third back in 2004 and 2005. Results from the 10th annual... [16 Dec 2008]
Photos: A day in the life of a virus hunter
Photo Symantec threat researcher Candid Wüest's job is to rip apart the malware that the company discovers each day, look into its guts and pass on its telltale signatures to protect machines worldwide. With hundreds of new... [09 Oct 2008]
Photos: Sniffing out fraud with digital forensics
Photo The team does not attempt to crack high-grade encryption, relying instead on the threat of a prison sentence for individuals refusing to hand over passwords or decrypted files. Armed with laptops and suitcases containing... [13 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo And the centre at Symantec's Reading HQ faces a growing threat, with a 140 per cent increase in the amount of malware being deployed online over the past six months. The Tesla Roadster, a sporty variation on the electric... [01 Aug 2008]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo And the centre faces a growing threat, with a 140 per cent increase in the amount of malware being deployed online over the past six months. Symantec's security operations centre analyses more than one billion logs per... [21 Jul 2008]
Photos: A snapshot of what HP's got up its sleeve
Photo This is a cutting-edge security project set up to combat the threat of quantum computers. Although the threat is still theoretical, HP Labs has looked at how to combat it. This particular application... [09 Jun 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo Seven metres long, with two ramjet engines and four booster rockets it was a pillar of Britain's defence against the Soviet threat during the Cold War. This month silicon.com editor Steve Ranger visited China for a... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo A handheld PC is used to program the UAVs with waypoints and threat detection is performed by the operator. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify, locate and report... [06 May 2008]
Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain
Photo Seven metres long, with two ramjet engines and four booster rockets it was a pillar of Britain's defence against the Soviet threat during the Cold War. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war... [01 May 2008]
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo This pretty vision is Netsky - a worm that consistently poses a threat via email traffic. Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which... [06 Mar 2008]
Photos: Soldiers test battle simulator tech
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for frontline troops facing the threat of roadside and suicide bombs. As the type of... [22 Oct 2007]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo Mobile security is a relatively new arena for the antivirus company, but as F-Secure CEO, Kimmo Alkio, recently said: "The threat level on mobile malware is not very high at the present time. Antivirus company F-Secure's... [28 Sep 2007]
