Wednesday - April 16, 2008
Passwords are not the best of security solutions, as enterprises and individual users have found over the years. They can be cracked or stolen, and not necessarily by high-tech means either. Often, passwords created by end users in corporations are simple, being based on numbers significant to them: their birth dates, wedding anniversaries, birth dates of their loved ones, their auto licenses plates or a combination of these. Or, where the passwords are created by the system administrator, end users tend to leave them exposed.
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Sunday - April 6, 2008
Why doesn't someone invent clothing with very small, powerful magnetic material woven in? That way all the clothes teenagers leave strewn about the house could be automatically pulled toward a designated laundry basket. Or what about a central trash system, like central plumbing, where all refuse gets whisked away to some underground recycling facility inhabited only by the alligators of urban mythology.
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Tuesday - April 1, 2008
Symark International on Tuesday released PowerADvantage, an integrated authentication and configuration tool that extends features of Microsoft Windows' Active Directory to networks also running Unix and Linux systems. PowerAdvantage adds centralized authentication, authorization and account access functionality to Unix and Linux systems.
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Friday - February 29, 2008
Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association.
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Wednesday - February 27, 2008
Users of many Microsoft Windows Live services worldwide were hit by an outage on Tuesday that lasted most of the day before Microsoft managed to fix it. The issue affected the Windows Live ID log-in process and for the most part spared customers who were already logged in, Windows Live product manager Samantha McManus said.
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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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Wednesday - January 30, 2008
Managers of enterprise networks are becoming more aware of the importance of IT risk management issues even though they still cling to four so-called myths that give a false sense of security, according to Symantec. The security vendor on Wednesday released its IT Risk Management Report Volume II, which looks beyond last year's study of how the IT industry reacted to risk warnings.
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Wednesday - January 30, 2008
Study after study continues to reveal a fundamental truth about the shifting landscape of IT security today: The biggest threat to proprietary systems and information is not the traditional cyber-criminal writing malicious code in a virtual location, but rather trusted employees. Savvy administrators recognize that because end users are privy to an organization's sensitive data, they represent a significant risk factor.
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Monday - January 21, 2008
McAfee announced Monday a security suite that provides enterprise users with host data loss prevention, device management and endpoint encryption to ensure compliance and limit exposure to fines. McAfee Total Protection for Data, a solution for data loss and data leakage protection, has full visibility and control of confidential data with scalability and centralized management.
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Thursday - November 29, 2007
Despite improvements in system and network security, wily cybercriminals remain a significant threat, adjusting their methods to take advantage of unwary Internet users, the SANS Institute says in its report on the top 20 Internet security risks of 2007, released Tuesday. Hackers and cyberspies have shifted their focus and moved in favor of more targeted assaults that rely upon unsuspecting users' gullibility.
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Friday - November 16, 2007
To help combat increasingly complicated home PC and networking environments, Microsoft has released the second major version to its Windows Live OneCare, a subscription service that helps manage security updates and performance of home and small-business PCs. Thirty-five percent of U.S. adults now own more than one home computer, according to Microsoft-sponsored research.
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