Wednesday - April 30, 2008
Microsoft has given law enforcement officials a new tool known as "Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor," or COFEE, to aid in the pursuit of crimes involving computers. COFEE is a framework of customizable and common forensic tools for law enforcement. Microsoft made the announcement at this year's Law Enforcement Technology conference. The three-day event, hosted by Microsoft, draws together some 400 law enforcement officials from more than 35 countries to demonstrate the latest technology tools.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Think having a credit or debit card with your photo on it is cool? Well, how about a card the same size and thickness as a credit card, with a window that shows a passcode, and with a public key infrastructure chip on it? When you need to use the card, press on its switch and the PKI chip will run an algorithm that generates a one-time passcode for you to use.
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Friday - April 11, 2008
The face of online security will change drastically, Jim Bidzos, founder and chairman of trusted certificates vendor VeriSign, said in a keynote speech on Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. "In the '70s in enterprises, there were mainly mainframes." When local area networks came along in the '80s, tokens were introduced and "they were good enough for this kind of access," Bidzos said.
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Tuesday - April 8, 2008
Project Concordia -- formed last year by vendors offering electronic identity products to create a harmonized standard and ensure identity initiatives and protocols can interoperate -- held a series of demonstrations by seven vendors: FuGen Solutions, Internet2, Microsoft, Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun Microsystems and Symlabs.
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Monday - April 7, 2008
It's quiet on the streets of San Francisco today, the first day of the RSA Security Conference, being held at the Moscone Convention Center south of Market Street. Traffic on the streets is light, so either the cops are doing a good job redirecting the crazy San Francisco traffic, which in this area can almost rival that of New York, or the gloomy economic news has trickled down to the streets.
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Sunday - March 30, 2008
There are few greater hassles for computer users than the loss of a laptop -- whether it was stolen from the airplane or left lying in a bus. Yet in many cases, the data contained in the machine is considered more valuable than the computer itself. One way to ease these concerns is to take steps to make data inaccessible to third parties.
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Sunday - March 16, 2008
A small Annapolis, Md., startup is using free software developed by scores of online users to build a data storage company that it claims will be secure enough to store sensitive government data like satellite images of terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan. Exponential Storage hopes to one day persuade the National Security Agency and other government bureaus to hire the company for its data storage network.
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Thursday - March 6, 2008
A new technology unveiled Wednesday aims to prevent hardware privacy by protecting microchips with the virtual equivalent of an embedded "lock" that can be opened only by the patent owner. Called "EPIC" -- short for Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits -- the technique relies on established cryptography methods.
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Wednesday - February 27, 2008
What's most important to consumers when making a purchase online? Personal identity. Consumers are taking more notice of their individual online security after a string of recent identity theft cases made major headlines. According to a recent survey by University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future, 61 percent of adult Americans said they were very or extremely concerned about the privacy of personal information when buying online, an increase from 47 percent in 2006.
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Tuesday - February 26, 2008
Perhaps like no other industry before it, the IT industry has come to thrive on continuous innovation coupled with rapid and widespread product introduction. In the competitive -- at times mad -- rush to be first or early to market key things are sometimes overlooked. When it comes to security, it is impossible to identify every vulnerability, much less foretell just how hackers will try to exploit them.
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Friday - February 22, 2008
A new study suggests that dynamic memory on computers stores encrypted, secure data longer than originally thought. The research project -- conducted by eight researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wind River Systems -- focused on retrieving encrypted data from dynamic random access memory.
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