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Technofile: IT Security
09/13/2007 - Though the paper is aimed at investigators who already have some of the skills needed to do computer forensic investigations, it includes much information that will be of value to anyone who is interested in how cellular devices work and how they should be properly seized and analyzed.
Telecommunications: IT Security
09/13/2007 - Find out how your company can benefit from Internet phone communications, called VoIP, while avoiding the risks
Beyond Print: IT Security
09/12/2007 - The weakest link in computer network security isn’t technology, it’s users, concludes a new government survey from the United Kingdom. Find out why passwords are key.
Beyond Print: IT Security
09/12/2007 - Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks pose a severe risk of inadvertent disclosure for large financial institutions, say researchers from the Center for Digital Strategies.
Beyond Print: IT Security
09/12/2007 - Consumers will pay more money to shop on a retailer’s Web site with strong privacy protections according to a Carnegie Mellon study.
Technofile: IT Security
09/12/2007 - Half of the corporate employees surveyed have saved a work e-mail outside the company network, and almost half have used corporate systems to send jokes, pictures, and “stories of a questionable tone” to friends. Yet 92 percent of these respondents believe that their e-mail use does not pose any risk to their employers.
Technofile: IT Security
09/12/2007 - If your e-mail address is posted on a Web site, the chances of it being “harvested” by a spammer are much greater than if the address appears on a blog, on a message board, or in a chat room. That’s one finding from a study conducted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), whose investigators created 150 e-mail accounts—50 with an Internet service provider (ISP) that does not use antispam filtering, and 50 each at two other ISPs that do filter for spam—to learn more about how to reduce spam. @ E-mail Address Harvesting and the Effectiveness of Anti-SpamFfilters, a report by the federal trade commission’s division of marketing practices, is at SM Online.
Beyond Print: IT Security
09/12/2007 - Malicious code threats continue to rise, according to this software company report.
Beyond Print: IT Security
09/12/2007 - According to a survey of IT in the corporate world, the importance of IT security professionals is finally being recognized.
Book Reviews: IT Security
09/12/2007 - The book covers these 19 programming flaws, which include the most devastating types of coding and architectural errors, such as buffer overflows, format string problems, cross-site scripting, and insufficient encryption.
Technofile: IT Security
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Technofile: IT Security
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Technofile: IT Security
09/11/2007 - The next time you see Microsoft Windows’ “blue screen of death” or a “fatal error” message flash across your monitor, don’t get angry; reboot and then point your browser toward the DistroWatch Web site
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