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Detection and Removal of Firewall Misconfiguration

whitepaper To police network traffic, firewalls must be configured with a set of filtering rules. The existence of errors in this set is very likely to degrade the network security policy. The management of these configuration errors is a serious and complex...

Tags: firewalls

[11 May 2008]

iPhone out of stock after £100 price cut

News More on the iPhone   Apple iPhone 'ready for business'   Doctor iPhone will see you now…   Video: Apple iPhone is a serious business at last   iPhone making business users smile   iPhone on the Edge 'disappoints...

Tags: carphone warehouse, o2, iphone

[02 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... XP lives, the femtocell 'truth', BlackBerry bashing…

Comment Get the police to do the job the Data Protection Registrar isn't bothering to do! Mr Button - you mean get the police to do the job the ICO doesn't have the authority to do. Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com...

Tags: iphone, blackberry, femtocell, vista

[01 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo The receiver/carrier WB400A was placed in police stations and emergency services buildings and received warnings by a secure government telephone line. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion...

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season

Comment As of the beginning of this month Google will no longer police the unauthorised use of trademarks in any new keyword purchases. This month Google changed its policy on selling keyword search terms containing trademarks.

Tags: keywords, google, search engines, trademarks

[30 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment Certainly when it comes to IT it's easier to think of the public sector as a series of small businesses - departments, quangos, NGOs, NHS trusts, police forces - that occasionally work together but more often work against each other, cynics would...

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

Geographic database opens doors to private sector

News The NLPG has been used by public sector organisations - such as the police, fire service and county council - for the past four years but is now available for private sector groups to subscribe to. A national geographical electronic database is now...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

National fraud reporting centre to arrive next year

News A spokesman for the Attorney General's Office said: "A proof-of-concept model is being developed and will be tested from the summer, for six months, with aim to identify what information is not being compared currently and join up information that...

Tags: security, cyber crime, fraud

[28 Apr 2008]

Photos: Discover high-tech India

Photo Oracle's Campus stands next to Satyam's School of Leadership near to a police checkpoint. Bangalore is India's most famous offshore location but the city of Hyderabad is also one of the country's tech hotspots, and silicon.com went to see it first...

Tags: offshoring, india, outsourcing

[28 Apr 2008]

Police e-crime unit set for green light

News The UK's proposed central e-crime police unit is close to securing the necessary government funding to make it a reality, according to one of the architects of the project. Speaking at the Infosec security show in London, The Metropolitan Police...

Tags: funding, government, police, e-crime

[25 Apr 2008]

Mobiles to come under attack from 'bad guys'

News Schmidt also reaffirmed his backing of a central UK e-crime police unit which silicon.com has been campaigning for. Speaking to silicon.com at Infosec 2008 in London, former advisor to the White House on cyber security, Howard Schmidt, said...

Tags: criminals, schmidt, security, sdk

[24 Apr 2008]

Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket

Comment More on the iPhone ¦ Apple iPhone 'ready for business' ¦ Doctor iPhone will see you now… ¦ Video: Apple iPhone is a serious business at last ¦ iPhone making business users smile ¦ iPhone on the Edge 'disappoints' Apple co...

Tags: smart phones, apple, android, iphone

[23 Apr 2008]

Police Facebook presence strikes privacy chord

News Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first UK police force to establish a presence on Facebook. Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing...

Tags: facebook, privacy, police, submit

[22 Apr 2008]

Beware the insider security threat

Beware the insider security threat

News Steve Gediking, head of IT & facilities, Independent Police Complaints Commission Security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week warned of all manner of threats ranging from botnets to metasploit attacks.

Tags: insider, security

[17 Apr 2008]

UK phishing attacks shoot up 200 per cent

News Apacs said consumers must be vigilant after the number of reported incidents shot up by more than 10,000 during the first quarter of 2008.silicon.com's e-Crime Crackdown campaign is calling for a national UK cyber crime police unit.

Tags: cyber crime, e-crime, phishing

[16 Apr 2008]

Thieves foiled by 'phone home' computers

News Computers that 'phone home' after being stolen are guiding police to the doorsteps of thieves across the world. Tracking technology has helped police sniff out thousands of stolen machines, uncovering UK computers as far away as Argentina...

Tags: software, police, tracking

[14 Apr 2008]

ID cards fuel £147m consultancy bill

News Violent crime has doubled, immigration has tripled and police now spend more time on paper work than patrol. The UK's ID card scheme has helped fuel a 2,000 per cent hike in the cost of Home Office consultants - taking the bill up to £147m last year.

Tags: home office, biometrics, id cards

[11 Apr 2008]

'CopNav' to track Met's police officers

News Every police officer in London is to be tracked using a new electronic tagging system that will be able to pinpoint their location out on the beat to within a few feet. The £2.2m scheme will see the Metropolitan Police Service's 31,500 officers...

Tags: tag, london, police

[11 Apr 2008]

Phorm defends 'traffic-analysis' methods

News Richard Clayton, FIPR's treasurer, told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk yesterday that FIPR's issues with Ripa - such as the "way that police could self-authorise [interception]" - remained, but had nothing to do with the elements of Ripa...

Tags: ripa, phorm

[11 Apr 2008]

Transit Police Go Wireless for Next Wave of Safety

whitepaper BART police wanted to use the newest wireless technology to fulfill its mission of ensuring the safety and security of the transit district's patrons, employees, and their property, as well as preventing criminal activity through highly visible...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, video, police, department

[10 Apr 2008]

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