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RSS schemeHow to pay for your Amazon purchases with a feisty mango
News The PayPhrase scheme is also being taken up by other retailers in the US, including electronics company Buy.com and fashion store DKNY. Amazon has launched a new payments system based around a user's memorable phrase. [30 Oct 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News For example, in July 2008, the UK government informed 10,000 businesses that they could be affected by the Carbon Reduction Commitment - a climate change and energy-saving scheme that will take effect in 2010. [29 Oct 2009]
Blocked: BBC plan to share iPlayer with rivals
News The BBC Trust, the body that oversees the BBC, announced yesterday it thought the scheme "was not the best way to share the BBC iPlayer or to deliver increased public value to licence fee payers". The BBC Trust has... [21 Oct 2009]
ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News From early next year, the scheme will be extended to cover those living in the wider North West area. Thousands of UK citizens have registered their interest in getting their very own ID card. According to the Home... [19 Oct 2009]
Revealed: The anatomy of an internet scam
News If the scammers' structure sounds like a clever marketing operation than a criminal scheme, that's no surprise: most scareware operations are closer to business than they are to gangster rackets, according to Wall. [19 Oct 2009]
BBC iPlayer gets ready to go Worldwide
News The new service, which will have to be approved by the BBC Trust before it can be implemented, is part of a wider scheme by BBC Worldwide to establish new revenue models. BBC Worldwide has confirmed it wants to launch an... [12 Oct 2009]
Sainsbury's tech shopping spree revealed
News The system uses data from its Nectar customer loyalty scheme to determine a customer's tastes and prints off customised vouchers at the checkout, Sainsbury's CEO Justin King revealed in a conference call with investors... [09 Oct 2009]
Microsoft's 'browser ballot' plan gets the green light
News Microsoft's plan to offer new Windows users a choice of browser - the so-called browser ballot screen - has been approved by the EC. Market testing will now go ahead for the ballot, which was created in response to EC antitrust concerns... [07 Oct 2009]
Self-Encryption Scheme for Data Security in Mobile Devices
White Paper This paper proposes a novel data encryption and storage scheme to address this challenge. Treating the data as a binary bit stream, the Self-Encryption (SE) scheme generates a keystream by randomly... [04 Oct 2009]
Cryptanalysis on Improved Remote User Authentication Scheme Preserving User Anonymity
White Paper Remote user authentication using smartcards is the most widely used scheme for a valid user to login to a remote server and to access the services provided by the server over insecure channels. Due to the convenience,... [02 Oct 2009]
The Early Detection of DDoS Based on the Persistent Increment Feature of the Traffic Volume
White Paper The scheme can detect a DDoS attack in its early stages when the attacking packet's attribute value has no distinct features. This scheme detects DDoS attacks with on-line and distributed characteristics. [02 Oct 2009]
Detecting Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks With Nondeterministic Attack Intervals
White Paper The main contribution is Vanguard, a new anomaly-based detection scheme for this class of PDoS attacks. This paper addresses the important problem of detecting Pulsing Denial of Service (PDoS) attacks which send a... [02 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up The government believes the scheme could raise up to £175m per annum. Every once in a while an application comes along that defines a platform. For the Apple II it was the early spreadsheet VisiCalc. For the IBM PC it... [25 Sep 2009]
Sphinx: A Compact and Provably Secure Mix Format
White Paper It is more compact than any comparable scheme, and supports a full set of security features: indistinguishable replies, hiding the path length and relay position, as well as providing unlinkability for each leg of the... [16 Sep 2009]
Compress Compound Images in H.264/MPEG-4 AVC by Fully Exploiting Spatial Correlation
White Paper To solve the problem, this paper proposes a novel coding scheme based on the H.264 intra-frame coding. Compound images consist of text, graphics and natural images, which present strong anisotropic features. [16 Sep 2009]
