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When Reading FC won promotion to the Premiership in 2006, the whole club had to step up several gears. As well as building up its playing squad to take on the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United, it also had to equip itself for new business...
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Mar 11, 2008
It is no easy task trying to run information security for a school or educational authority. Not only do you have the usual problems of viruses, spyware and spam, but you also have a population of users with the skills – and motivation – to evade any...
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Apr 8, 2008
A consortium of companies -- including IBM and Novell Inc. -- announced this week that they are contributing code to Project Higgins, an initiative of the Eclipse Foundation to create open source tools, APIs and applications to manage the security of user... More... Feb 28, 2006
For companies in search of a secure way to authenticate users and prevent online thievery in an increasingly virtual and decentralized business climate, federated identity management looks great on paper. Unfortunately, experts say, a number of...
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Jun 21, 2007
Bill Gates is back at RSA as a keynote speaker for the fourth consecutive year, and while his annual speeches here may not have the hype or "cool" factor of a Steve Jobs address at MacWorld, attendees have come to expect a few fireworks during Gates' talks. This...
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Feb 6, 2007
RealNetworks Inc. has released a second round of updates in less than a week for critical vulnerabilities in its RealPlayer, RealOne and HelixPlayer that could be exploited by an attacker to gain access to a system. The second round expands the scope if... More... Oct 26, 2007
Updated Tuesday, Aug. 15 with comments from Microsoft. With IT security professionals already on edge following recent attacks targeting the Windows Server Service flaw outlined in MS06-040, a researcher is not only warning of new, unpatched flaws in... More... Aug 14, 2006
The SANS Institute Monday unveiled the Software Security Institute, a new exam program designed to ensure that software programmers demonstrate better security scruples when writing code. A coalition of technology users and vendors organized by... More... Mar 27, 2007
Adobe Systems Inc. has posted a workaround for a critical zero-day flaw in its widely-used programs for making and reading .pdf documents. Attackers could exploit the flaw to hijack Windows machines. The flaw affects Adobe Reader 8.1 and earlier versions... More... Oct 8, 2007
A critical vulnerability discovered in Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X could be exploited remotely by an attacker to compromise a user's system.
Danish vulnerability clearinghouse Secunia rated the flaw highly critical because it can be remotely... More... Jan 11, 2007
Mozilla has released an update of its popular Firefox browser to address a pile of security flaws attackers could exploit to tamper with sensitive information, conduct phishing attacks and run malicious code. The "highly critical" issues are being... More... Oct 19, 2007
How sure are you that your staff is not visiting infected websites, and that your current defences are keeping out all malware?
Security company Finjan Inc. says your defences are probably not up to scratch and is prepared to prove it -- for free. Any company... More... Nov 14, 2008
NEW YORK -- There's no doubt companies are going through misery trying to comply with such mandates as the Payment Card Industry's Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). But easing the rules would be a bad idea given the steady rise of identity fraud, financial...
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May 9, 2007
Recent large-scale data security snafus and thefts haven't gone unnoticed by lawmakers. Passage of data privacy legislation by two House committees in March increases the likelihood that Congress will approve a bill this year imposing new... More... Apr 20, 2006
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- To help reduce growing friction between user privacy and enterprise security, businesses should re-evaluate how much they need to know about people before vouching for their identities online, according to Tuesday's keynote speaker... More... Feb 14, 2006
Recent revelations over data losses at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and at the National Health Service (NHS) have made both organisations a laughing stock, but we should all think twice before laughing too loudly.
Last week, the MoD was forced, in an answer to... More... Jul 23, 2008
Microsoft security manager Stephen Toulouse hit the road this week in an effort to quell concerns his company is trying to drive security vendors out of business with its various security tools, including those being baked into Vista. Vendors are... More... Sep 14, 2006
If you think of data loss prevention (DLP) as simply some sort of information firewall to protect credit card numbers from careless employees or criminals, think again. We're increasingly unable to manage and understand the many ways and places in which... More... Nov 29, 2007
According to a report, several products from antivirus vendor McAfee Inc. are vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw.
Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based security firm eEye Digital Security Inc. has reported that a flaw in multiple consumer products from the... More... Aug 1, 2006
AOL insisted Thursday that a flaw in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) has been fixed, after a security researcher disputed earlier suggestions AIM users would be protected by upgrading to the latest version of the AIM beta client. In an email Thursday... More... Sep 27, 2007
The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips and devices will increase dramatically over the next few years, as retailers, businesses and even the federal government makes use of this often discrete communication technology. But do these... More... Aug 3, 2006
With file transfer limited via email, employees often have to find unique ways to transfer large files such as audio, video and photos, raising security issues among some IT Pros.
For Columbus, Ohio-based Grange Mutual Casualty Group, transferring... More... May 9, 2007
As the massive data breach at the TJX Cos. continues to play itself out in court, more details are emerging as the case shifts to how banks can recoup the costs of reissuing credit cards. TJX may have discovered that its systems were breached as early as... More... Dec 13, 2007
The Cyber Security Industry Alliance, a trade group made up of US-based security vendors, is in full gear to pressure members of Congress to enact data security and breach legislation. The organization said it is using the National Cyber Security... More... Oct 8, 2007
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