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BASEL II: Everyone is in the Risk Business Now
Managing risk used to be straightforward process, but all that is about to change for the world’s central banks and their IT departments. Basel II, the accord which …
Infosecurity Europe a Highly Successful Event
Neil Stinchcombe, public relations contact for this year’s Infosecurity Europe, dropped us an e-mail with some of the statistics on this highly successful event. …
Interview with Mark Komarinski, author of “PTG Interactive’s Training Course for Red Hat Linux: A Digital Seminar on CD-ROM 2/e”
Who is Mark Komarinski? Introduce yourself to our readers. A nice open-ended question. Professionally, I’m a Senior Linux System Administrator for Harvard Medical …
Handbook for Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs)
The document is aimed at aiding the planning, creation and development of CSIRTs: teams trained specifically to deal with IT security incidents. One of the principal tasks of …
Linux Security: Public Key and Symmetric Key Encryption
This is an excerpt from “A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux 8“. An interview with the author is available here. Public Key Encryption In order to use public key …
Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 Beta 2 Released
Trustix team announced that Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 beta 2 (aka Hurricane) is available for download. As this is a beta release, it is not intended for usage on production …
Commentary on Microsoft .NET Passport Vulnerability BugTraq Disclosure
Qazi Ahmed from PakCERT sent us a commentary on the Microsoft .NET Passport vulnerability announced yesterday on several security lists: “This is to clearify the issue …
Interview with Harvey Bondar, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Digital Persona
Introduce Digital Persona. When was the company started and with what mission? Digital Persona was founded in 1996 with the intention to bring biometric (fingerprint …
How an Antivirus Program Works
From the early viruses, created as experiments in the eighties, to the latest malicious code, one of the biggest worries for all computer users is the threat of viruses …
Application Security Releases DbEncrypt for Microsoft SQL Server
Application Security, Inc. today announced DbEncrypt for Microsoft SQL Server. This latest version of DbEncrypt is part of the company’s expanding set of application …
Positive Identification in a Wireless World
The use of wireless systems for network and Web access is exploding-from wireless LANs to e-mail capable cell phones. It makes network access completely portable, and with …
ISS “X-Force Internet Watch” Web Site Compromised
Well known defacement archive Zone-H reported that one of the Internet Security Systems’ servers has been compromised. According to the Google’s cache, the server, …