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  • Fundamental Oracle flaw revealed

    Posted January 18, 2012 - 12:31 pm

    A design decision made by Oracle architects long ago may have painted some of Oracle's largest customers into a corner. Patches have arrived, but how much will they correct?
  • How to guard your data as it travels among cloud providers

    Posted January 5, 2012 - 12:00 pm

    Some cloud computing vendors outsource parts of their services to subcontractors, who may in turn outsource to others. Here's how to know who has your company's data and how secure it really is.
  • Cloud SWAT teams

    Posted January 3, 2012 - 3:57 pm

    Cloud computing poses unique security challenges. Here's how cloud-specific 'security incident-response teams' could help governments and large enterprises respond to malicious activity and make the cloud more trustworthy. Insider (registration required)
  • 5 hot tech projects to boost your IT career

    Posted November 7, 2011 - 7:06 am

    Take the reins of any of these five forward-looking initiatives and become an IT hero in the eyes of upper management
  • Windows 8 Deep Dive Report

    Posted October 31, 2011 - 10:57 am

    Find out what Microsoft's forthcoming OS means for developers, admins, network security, mobile usage, and more
  • On the front line against the next Stuxnet

    Posted October 1, 2011 - 11:28 pm

    Meet the people who will get the call when the next Stuxnet worm strikes.
  • 5 secrets to building a great security team

    Posted September 19, 2011 - 3:43 pm

    For a security industry leader, Tim Williams is a pretty modest guy. As the former head of ASIS International and now as global security director for the $42.5 billion construction equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Williams has won his share of recognition, which he doesn't take lightly.
  • Desktop virtualization users say the technology brings challenges

    Posted September 1, 2011 - 1:42 pm

    Sacking the old PC in favor of desktop virtualization is starting to grow and the information technology managers taking the lead on that trend offered some perspectives on the networking and security challenges it brings.
  • Rethinking the ESB: Building a simple, secure, scalable Service Bus with an SOA Gateway

    Posted August 15, 2011 - 2:49 pm

    For years the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) has been seen as a corporate integration and messaging backbone upon which application architectures are built. However, this concept must evolve to meet the requirements of today's corporate landscape, where IT boundaries are blurring, driven by the need to integrate with partners, cloud and mobile applications.
  • Pod Slurping – An easy technique for stealing data

    Posted September 23, 2008 - 5:42 am

    The problem with uncontrolled use of iPods, USB sticks and flash drives on your network
  • My life as a dog

    Posted November 29, 2007 - 12:00 pm

    Adam Laurie lived a few Novembers as a dog earlier this year. By duplicating the RFID tags used to identify pets in the U.K. and sewing it into his watch strap, Laurie, an independent security researcher, re-created his dog's ID as a hacking exercise. However, this kind of virtual animal cloning could become a serious issue as industrialized countries roll out RFID-based systems to keep track of their livestock.
  • Study: Weak passwords really do help hackers

    Posted February 9, 2007 - 9:51 am

    Clever combinations of user names and passwords really do help thwart hacker attacks, according to a University of Maryland researcher who detected 270,000 intrusion attempts in 24 days on four Linux computers with weak passwords.
  • Security is in employees' hands

    Posted June 2, 2006 - 9:47 am

    A decade ago, William Beaumont Hospital, a 254-bed community hospital in Troy, Michigan, had a problem with a small number of rogue employees who were stealing narcotics from a storage area. The solution: a biometric hand geometry system, which identifies individuals through hand measurements.
  • AirMagnet: Life beyond security

    Posted May 19, 2006 - 11:32 am

    A marketing strategy and Web site revamp by WiFi security start-up AirMagnet could signal changes in the wireless intrusion detection and prevention market as these technologies become more commonplace and vendors start to add new services and products.
  • Your thoughts are your password

    Posted April 28, 2006 - 11:15 am

    Imagine if all you had to do to authenticate your online ID was to think of a line from your favorite song. In Ottawa, Canada, Carleton University researchers are working on a biometric device that would read your brainwaves; instead of passwords, you'd have "pass-thoughts."
  • What's behind open-source ID push?

    Posted March 3, 2006 - 1:27 pm

    IBM and Novell have thrown their weight behind an open-source identity management initiative known as the Higgins Project, prompting speculation about why the two large companies would support an obscure technology that to date has no products or workable code. Microsoft, meanwhile, is moving ahead with its competing InfoCard technology, which will be integrated into Windows Vista.
  • Sony rootkit: A black eye for security vendors?

    Posted December 5, 2005 - 11:19 am

    Sony BMG Music Entertainment has been lambasted for shipping its spyware-like XCP software on music CDs over the past year, but an important question has gone largely unanswered throughout the controversy: Why didn't security vendors catch the problem sooner?
  • ATMs using biometrics gaining popularity around world but not in U.S.

    Posted October 13, 2005 - 4:54 pm

    Privacy concerns and start-up costs have prevented biometric ATMs, which use fingerprint- or iris-scanning to verify a customer's identity, from catching on in the United States, but they are gaining popularity in surprising places.
  • Digital signatures are key to e-mail security

    Posted September 23, 2005 - 8:57 am

    Amid the need for authenticate emails for regulatory compliance and contract purposes, companies are increasingly adopting digital signatures for all email. Find out what you need to know to set up a public/private key system for digital signatures.
  • Hackers looking hard for anti-virus software vulnerabilities

    Posted July 29, 2005 - 12:31 am

    Two security researchers used the Black Hat conference to outline a number of flaws in anti-virus software products that they found by using binary auditing tools.
  • Businesses deploy ID-management software

    Posted May 13, 2005 - 2:14 pm

    Security-conscious businesses will spend a total of $528.4 million on ID- and access-management systems this year, and spending will top $1 billion by 2009, according to research from IDC. This article looks at three companies that have already taken the plunge.
  • Expert: Better ID checks won't beat fraud

    Posted March 16, 2005 - 3:13 am

    The use of two-factor identification is not likely to resolve the identity theft problem faced by online merchants and database companies, an encryption expert has warned.
  • Advantage: Symantec and McAfee

    Posted March 2, 2005 - 1:42 pm

    The speed with which anti-virus vendors McAfee and Symantec reacted to a series of attacks designed to exploit their processes for issuing anti-virus updates demonstrates that they're more nimble than they often get credit for.
  • Fortifying your network-access control: Strong authentication

    Posted February 4, 2005 - 8:13 am

    Single sign-on and multi-factor authentication techniques are rapidly replacing the ubiquitous user-ID-and-password approach to network security. This article takes an in-depth look at the myriad alternatives, the costs and ROI, and where authentication trends are headed.
  • The mobile virus threat: Are security companies fixing a problem that doesn't exist?

    Posted February 2, 2005 - 5:46 pm

    With the advent of the first mobile worms and viruses, security companies are rushing out protection products for smartphones. But is the problem these products addressing real?
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