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RSS threats in photos
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo The firm scours the net searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high street banks. The sale includes Sinclair computers such as the ZX81 machine and a ZX Spectrum 48K extension... [02 Oct 2009]
Photos: Inside the RSA cybercrime war room
Photo From the AFCC, the security firm sifts through more than 10 million emails every day, as well as domain names and fraudster chat rooms, searching for threats to its customers, which include a selection of Britain's high... [18 Sep 2009]
Photos: Vicious viruses find a home in art
Photo The RSA Conference being held in San Francisco last week brought together information security professionals to discuss the cyber threats looming beneath our fingertips. At the conference, artist Alex Dragulescu showed... [27 Apr 2009]
Photos: Army tech marches into future
Photo It was developed for the MoD's Grand Challenge in August which is a competition to find the best defence technology ideas to help deal with the changing threats faced by troops. The UGV uses a thermal and optical camera... [11 Mar 2009]
Photos: Military robot wars
Photo The MoD has announced the winner of its Grand Challenge competition to produce a vehicle capable of identifying threats encountered by UK troops on current operations. The competition was launched in 2006 to design... [21 Aug 2008]
Beijing Olympics, Google Earth, BlackBerry Bold and more
Photo The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify, locate and report a comprehensive range of military threats. This month silicon.com editor Steve Ranger visited China for a... [30 May 2008]
Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle
Photo The aerial unit carries daylight and thermal imaging sensors and a laser range finder to record information on the conditions of the ground and the distance to potential threats. The challenge is to create a system with... [06 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. This creation pictured is from a phishing program. See our photo story for more weird and wonderful creations. [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: Viruses and Trojans come to life
Photo Security software firm MessageLabs, has turned a number of cyber threats into works of art using the malicious computer code which forms them. Alex Dragulescu created the images for six cyber security... [06 Mar 2008]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo The team also uses a host of other tools to hunt and identify a variety of cyber threats, including a mobile phone bunker, which they use to see how devices react to viruses, a Google Earth mash-up and a fake IP address... [28 Sep 2007]
Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters
Photo The Advanced Acoustic Analysis Course (AAAC) - commonly referred to as the "A" course - takes experienced sonar operators and aims to buff up their skills to enable them to make quick decisions when detecting and classifying underwater... [22 Aug 2007]
Photos: Inside Symantec's secure bunker
Photo Threats are also monitored on the four flatscreens on the facing wall. The Symantec bunker was built by the UK government in the early 1990s to shelter key utilities workers in the event of a nuclear attack and was... [29 Nov 2005]
Photos: Tracking the hackers
Photo Such intelligence enables CyberTrust to see who might be working on particular exploits and to monitor the groups' activities to better predict the timing of threats and attacks. CyberTrust's application known as 'The... [10 Oct 2005]
Photos: Inside the antivirus control centre
Photo In a world where threats typically spread from east to west and follow the sun this throws up clear patterns. Access all areas: F-Secure's headquarters is situated in the dockyard district of Finnish capital... [12 Sep 2005]
