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RSS weaknessBlackBerry PDF flaw puts business networks at risk
News RIM is aware of this weakness and said in its advisory that the BlackBerry Attachment Service can be installed on a remote computer in an isolated environment to prevent attacks affecting other computers. [17 Jul 2008]
The Case for Separating Routing From Routers
White Paper To overcome this weakness, interdomain routing should be separated from today's IP routers, which should simply forward packets (for the most part). Over the past decade, the complexity of the Internet's routing infrastructure has increased... [11 Jul 2008]
A Framework for Traffic Engineering in a SIP-Over-MPLS Based Network
White Paper To combine of SIP and MPLS give this network two major features: it overcomes the weakness of traditional SS7 running in the Internet and provides high quality of service to the user using Traffic Engineering technology. [10 Jul 2008]
Improving XCP to Achieve Max-Min Fair Bandwidth Allocation
White Paper However, Low et al.recently discovered a weakness of XCP. Extensive simulations show that iXCP overcomes the weakness of XCP, and achieves efficient and fair bandwidth utilization in both single- and multi-bottleneck environments. [08 Jul 2008]
A Cryptanalysis of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection System
White Paper This paper describes a weakness in the High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) scheme which may lead to practical attacks. HDCP is a proposed identity-based cryptosystem for use over the Digital Visual Interface bus, a consumer video bus... [08 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with a single infrastructure is running more than a year late and is £182m over budget. A National Audit Office (NAO) report into the £7.1bn [04 Jul 2008]
Is SOA testing tough enough?
Comment Another security weakness is that many organisations are SOA-enabling legacy applications as well as the new software that they are developing. Improved efficiency, new services, access to legacy apps - the advantages of service-oriented... [20 May 2008]
WS-SecurityPolicy Decision and Enforcement for Web Service Firewalls
White Paper A known weakness of Web Services is their vulnerability to Denial of Service attacks exploiting XML processing characteristics. To protect Web Services from these attacks, extended validation of SOAP messages - considering WS-Security and WS... [26 Apr 2008]
Cisco Security Advisory: Multiple SSH Vulnerabilities - Revision 1.5
White Paper By exploiting the weakness in the SSH protocol, it is possible to insert arbitrary commands into an established SSH session, collect information that may help in brute force key recovery, or brute force a session key. [10 Apr 2008]
Multiple choice helps council IT measure up
Case Study Vic Falcus, head of IT service management at Staffordshire County Council, said the council signed up to the benchmarking exercise as it wanted to get a handle on its IT team's capabilities "at the delivery level" - and also identify any areas of... [24 Jan 2008]
Experimental Study of the SCTP Compared to TCP
White Paper It also comments the weakness of multi-homing and surveys the possible solutions. The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) has attractive features such as multi-streaming and multi-homing. This paper examines the multi-streaming and the... [14 Jan 2008]
Data breach hits thousands of motorists
News It is ironic that an internal review instigated by the Agency after the child benefit disks went missing in GB identified this method as a systemic weakness a week after the disks had been sent. Another week, another data breach. [12 Dec 2007]
The Brampton Factor: Software costs under pressure
Comment Another potential weakness in the Gartner proposition is the strong likelihood the 'Chinese Effect', which has brought down the cost of many manufactured goods, is about to go into reverse. Hardware prices may have fallen over the years but... [22 Nov 2007]
Can retail old dog learn new tricks?
Comment ADT's main weakness has got to be its lack of IT expertise. Retail technology isn't exactly a green-field market. There are established vendors in pretty much every field where technology is used to support retail operations. [08 Oct 2007]
Examining the Costs of Threats
White Paper Finally, they propose initial solutions and strategies for online banking companies to combat these attacks and purge their own resources to find areas of weakness. This whitepaper targets financial institutions and the threat posed to online... [03 Oct 2007]
