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In brief: PC vendors thrash out desktop security standards
News Leading PC vendors are joining forces to agree a set of security standards to be incorporated into the development of desktop systems. The standardised security features will include the capacity to store private keys that encode and authenticate... [04 Aug 1998]
CIO Jury: IT bosses ban Google Desktop over security fears
News UK IT bosses are already taking measures to ban employees from downloading Google's Desktop search software on PCs and laptops because of the security risk to corporate data. Google claims the enterprise version of the software includes security... [02 Mar 2006]
$100 laptop exec blasts desktop security
News The director of security architecture for the One Laptop per Child project has blasted the IT industry over a legacy of failed desktop security. Making a keynote speech at Australia's AusCERT 2007 security conference, Ivan Krstić said the... [21 May 2007]
Gartner issues Google Desktop 3 security warning
News IT departments are being warned to stop employees using the controversial 'search across computers' feature in Google Desktop 3 because it poses an "unacceptable security risk" to most organisations. Google launched the Google Desktop 3 beta... [20 Feb 2006]
Is Google Desktop 3 a threat to data security?
News Google Desktop's new search-across-computers feature could put sensitive data at risk and violate US federal data-privacy regulations, according to IT administrators at a public university and a large manufacturing company. [16 Feb 2006]
Major players get behind desktop security
News The Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) was formed in 1999 to help companies collaborate on security between hardware, applications and operating systems. The TCPA has adopted IBM's 256-bit security chips as a standard base for the platform. [30 Jan 2001]
Baltimore launch is a first for Windows security
News UniCERT 3.5 will become the first PKI to support and enhance all the desktop operating system security features, allowing Microsoft customers a more secure and cost-effective service. Paddy Holahan, executive vice president of marketing at... [15 Jan 2001]
Security firms show united front
News Antivirus-technology companies McAfee and Check Point Software have joined forces to release an automated internet and desktop security package designed for small businesses. The companies claim the package will help smaller companies streamline... [06 May 2004]
Holes found in Google Desktop
News Several flaws in the popular Google Desktop software could open PCs up to intruders and possible data theft, a security company has warned. Hackers could use cross-site scripting to manipulate Google Desktop's functionality for their own ends, said... [22 Feb 2007]
Intel rubber-stamps Symantec deal for protection
News Symantec will incorporate Norton's Internet Security 2001 package into the P4's D850GB desktop board, to provide internet entry-point protection against attempted intrusions, viruses and malicious code. [26 Jan 2001]
Google 'phishing flaw' fixed up
News According to a report posted to the Bugtraq Security Focus list on Wednesday, Google's new Desktop Search tool did not prevent a hacker from inserting JavaScript, a programming language, into the web address of its page image or logo. [21 Oct 2004]
Cisco announces security push
News The offerings are part of the company's new aim to provide end-to-end security for its customers, including selling more software to a platform that Cisco has rarely touched: the corporate desktop PC. [20 May 2003]
Google's sidebar is better than Apple's, says Gartner
News This is a significant endorsement for Google, as Gartner had criticised the first version of the desktop search tool for creating worrying security issues for IT managers and chief information officers. [24 Aug 2005]
Avoid Vista until 2008, business users told
News But Vista won't have any effect on the antivirus software space, which at $2.6bn is the largest market for Windows desktop security software, according to Yankee Group. Analyst Andrew Jaquith wrote in the report: "Yankee Group expects Vista to... [08 May 2006]
Font flaw foils Solaris security
News A flaw in the software that handles fonts for the desktop interface on Solaris-based workstations and servers could leave the computers open to attack, security experts claim. The flaw, a memory problem known as a buffer overflow, appears in the X... [27 Nov 2002]
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