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Increasing Volumes Of Spam A Growing Concern For UK Business
For around half of British businesses the increasing volumes of unsolicited emails or spam they receive is a growing concern and in some cases has reached unacceptable levels. …
Whose Site is it Anyway?
Despite the rapid increase in online commerce, it is estimated that some 85% of transactions are still cancelled at the final ‘confirm and buy’ page. While some of …
The Layered Approach to Security is Dead… Long Live Layered Security
Life isn’t the same as it used to be, the good old days of leaving your door unlocked are gone, never to return. Business isn’t the same either. IT has brought …
VoIP – Vulnerability over Internet Protocol
During the past few years the two most significant focuses for remaining IT budget have been security and cost saving systems capable of demonstrating rapid ROI. But in almost …
Mitigating the Complexities of Security Management
Securing your enterprise IT infrastructure can be a complex task. If your computing environment is like most, it is heterogeneous and contains a number of security products …
Creating Secure Backups With GnuPG
I’m working for a relatively large Internet Presence Provider (IPP) that servs about 4000 clients from about 30 countries worldwide. Besides a chunk of e-mails to our …
Patch Management
2003 has been the year of the Worm – worms such as Blaster, Slammer, Sobig (various forms) and Code Red, which can all be traced directly to exploitation of unpatched …
Gateway AV Scanners Caught By Surprise
Although by now most vendors have implemented some kind of patch to combat the most recent variant of the Bagle worm, fact remains this malware managed to defeat a large …
Increasing Security Awareness: Visualizing WEP Insecurity
This article describes how one can setup and perform a small wireless demonstration that is quick and easy to perform with a good visual result to trigger the attention of …
Video Interview with Jon Callas, CTO and CSO of PGP Corporation
In this video Mr. Callas discusses the importance of encryption in the overall security architecture, what he would like to see done in the field of cryptography as well as …
40GB Capacity And Biometric Security From The World’s First Pocket-Size USB HDD
Outbacker on display at the RSA Conference 2004 Memory Experts International (MXI) took the wraps off its ‘top secret’ biometric USB product – Outbacker …
Shavlik Technologies Adds Linux and Agent Capabilities to HFNetChkPro Patch Management Solution
The Shavlik Technologies booth at the RSA Conference 2004 Shavlik Technologies has announced new functionalities for its HFNetChkPro automated patch management solution. …