Watch who you deal with
Whilst visiting and exhibiting at Infosec Europe I found hundreds of “mushroom” security companies. These are companies that I find to ride the security band wagon whilst the going is good. Some of these companies are well staffed with good technical people and have great direction.
Some of the companies are [...]

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Microsoft’s release of Windows Vista is here, and network administrators need to begin considering deployment details. A major area of interest is the improved security features in Vista. Microsoft recently released the Windows Vista Security Guide, which provides network administrators with the information they need to begin developing security strategies for Vista deployments. There has [...]

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Some on-line backup services fail to provide adequate security, meaning attackers can read and even change the data being backed up or restored when it’s transmitted over the internet. Tests by heise Security show that four of the six services tested were vulnerable to attack.
While all of the tested systems encrypt communication with the backup [...]

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Connecting your naked PC to the Internet is like leaving your house unlocked–eventually, someone will wander in, rifle your underwear drawer, and empty the jewelry case. To make your system’s points of entry more Net secure, install one of the many free software firewalls now available, and set up a hardware-based firewall for backup.

Firewalls are [...]

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Q.I’m interested in recycling a PC in a way that protects the information stored on the hard-disk drive, such as banking records, tax returns and Social Security numbers. For two PCs I recently recycled, I drilled some holes in the disks and cut a few pieces out of them. I know there is software to [...]

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The Government Accountability Office today issued a searing indictment of the network security systems, or lack thereof, guarding the control systems that regulate the country’s largest public power company.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federal corporation that generates power using 52 fossil, hydro and nuclear facilities in an area of about 80,000 square miles [...]

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It is incredible just how big the effects of the newly discovered error in open source key generation is
For all the criticism of Microsoft and its security flaws, the software giant has made an impressive turnaround. While Vista has been derided for a variety of reasons, most would agree that it’s much more secure [...]

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