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  • Facebook addicts update from toilet

    In fact, 54% of those polled said they get their morning news fix by logging onto Facebook and Twitter.People seem so into their personal tech that they don't mind being interrupted from dinner, during a trip to the bathroom or even during sex.
  • Bogus intranets scam university students

    It is not clear how a student would have found such a site assuming a direct URL was already in existence, but any student logging into what appeared to be the official webmail site would have had their data harvested.RSA is unsure as to the…
  • Kaspersky invents security suite for 'expert' user

    This stores passwords securely inside a database (which itself can be backed up), which, depending on how it is configured, can be automatically summoned when logging into a specific website. Kaspersky Lab has invented a new security product that…
  • Google hackers stole source code, researchers

    Perforce sends passwords across the network in unencrypted form, allows anonymous users to create new accounts, and runs with a higher-than-necessary level of privileges, giving hackers an extra way to exploit the system it's running on.There's…
  • SAP tools available on iPhone, Windows Mobile

    The software can be used for any task or workflow in SAP's Universal Worklist, including supply chain, human resources and accounting.Traditionally, managers had been notified of these tasks in an email message and had to go to a web page to act…
  • SafeNet looks to secure data in the cloud

    The appliance centralises encryption processing and performs other functions such as logging, auditing and policy administration.SafeNet doesn't have a product name for the cryptographic key storage or the intelligent authentication tokens, but…

Latest Features

  • Will free Citrix upgrades boost virtual desktops?

    XenApps clients connect by logging in to the server and using software already running on it. The set of virtual desktop system enhancements Citrix Systems announced this week is unusual not for its timing or technical acumen, but for focusing on…
  • Seven reasons websites are not secure

    From there it's no sweat logging into the site and making changes. Conventional wisdom is that Web wanderers are safe as long as they avoid sites that serve up pornography, stock tips, games and the like.
  • Useful Facebook applications?

    Logging in with your Facebook credentials, you can see those friends and their friends, and send a message to your mutual friend to see if it might be a good fit. Although it got its start by enabling people to throw virtual pies at each other and…
  • 10 ways to hack into networks

    CIPAV grabs IP and MAC addresses, running processes, visited Web sites, versions of operating systems, registered owner and logging of computers the target computers connect to. The sad fact is that at some point some bad guys will try to hack into…
  • Getting to grips with PCI Security Standard

    It's essential, then, that your logging is comprehensive but concise, and that you have tools that allow you quickly to get to the key data. There's no point logging nefarious activity if you don't actually detect it because you never physically…
  • The next security worry - the photocopier

    Logging track printing, scanning, emailing, faxing against a list of users to monitor activity.In most companies, paperwork will always be signed. Name the previously ignored network device that is now at the forefront of information security?
 

How-Tos

  • How to protect your network with an open source firewall

    To get to the Web configuration page, point your browser to https://SmoothWallGreenAddress:441 and enter the admin password you configured earlier.One thing that may surprise you is that for a free-product that's easy to configure, SmoothWall is…
  • How to buy UTM products

    For example, the latest version of Astaro's Security Gateway product includes HTTPS Proxy Filtering, which allows users to filter and control secure web traffic and block programs that attempt to bypass security policy with SSL tunneling.Another…
  • Readers' favourite free network tools

    For those older devices that will only respond to Telnet, there is a Telnet option as well.PuTTY is a small program but big on options for secure access to your network equipment and servers running an SSH daemon.As with many other terminal…
  • Case Study: Insuring against network infection

    Eventually, the company will use the gear to scan endpoints to make sure they comply with security posture and to monitor behaviour of devices after they are on the network to make sure they behave according to policy.The company saw a need for…
  • Case Study: University picks two different wireless LANs

    For now, CMU plans to monitor traffic patterns on the two networks, and see how the gradual growth of 802.11n clients impacts the different architectures.Issue 2: integrating authentication modelsEach vendor has its own "captive" Web portal to…
  • IDS on the cheap

    The faster the connection being monitored and the level of logging dictate the machine capabilities.For brevity, this article focuses on installing a single stand-alone IDS at the network edge. Building an inexpensive but powerful…

Reviews

  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 review

    The commit step actually got annoying during our testing, because each change-test cycle requires about a 2-minute delay (on a very unburdened multi-core HyperV server) to activate, which slows down the cycle considerably.Monitoring and logging
  • Dell Studio 15 review

    And if you feel like sprucing up more than the internal components, Dell also offers dozens of colourful patterns to customise the lid back.The Core i5-equipped Studio 15 proved a very quick machine, logging a sterling score of 103 points in our…
  • Microsoft DirectAccess review

    It provides an encrypted bidirectional connection between the enterprise domain and the client device prior to the user logging on to the system, allowing admins to manage the remote machine via Group Policy and the like, just as if it were…
  • CoreTrace Bouncer application control review

    The extra features and security considerations put into this product are evident from the start.Logging into Bouncer's Control Center management console screen image requires a two factor USB access token and either physical access to the…
  • Iolo System Mechanic 9 review

    If you're logging in to raid in World of Warcraft, you don't need your Java updater lurking in the background, so you can create a "gaming" profile that deactivates unneeded background processes. Iolo's System Mechanic 9 is a powerful and deep set…
  • 1&1 MyBusiness Site review

    It is more than possible to get a professional-looking site up and running in a couple of minutes.The ability to upload a template and add content in 1&1 MyBusiness Site, however, is nothing to get excited about: what is significantly different…

White Papers

  • Predictive Self-Healing in the Solaris 10 Operating System

    Even a basic concept like error logging, provided in UNIX by the syslog service developed in the 1980s, is little more than interprocess or networked printf() that has barely evolved since then. Sun has developed a new architecture for building and…
  • HP StorageWorks 8000 Enterprise Virtual Array and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

    This leaves two main workloads to characterize, database and transactional logging. An Exchange stm database is utilized by Internet protocol clients such as OWA, POP3 and IMAP.In normal operations, transactional logging is a 100% sequential write…
  • Email Defense Requirements

    Industry data shows that SMBs receive a disproportionate amount of spam, with each SMB user logging more junk email than employees in larger enterprises. This white paper examines the special needs of SMBs to combat the wide range of email threats…
 
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