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Latest News

  • FDIC: Hackers stole $120m in three months of online bank fraud

    Ongoing computer scams targeting small businesses cost US companies $25 million in the third quarter of 2009, according to the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.Online banking fraud involving the electronic transfer of funds has been on the…
  • Bogus intranets scam university students

    Universities and their population of students have been marked out as the next soft target by online criminals, security company RSA has reported. Universities and their population of students have been marked out as the next soft target by online…
  • Google reveals Chrome OS security details

    Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats, a Google engineer said at the RSA Conference. Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in…
  • RSA 1024-bit private key encryption cracked

    Three University of Michigan computer scientists say they have found a way to exploit a weakness in RSA security technology used to protect everything from media players to smartphones and ecommerce servers.
  • RSA extends security tools to VMware

    EMC's RSA division is embracing the virtualisation trend that its VMware spinoff helped kick off, announcing that three of its core security products will work in VMware virtualised environments. EMC's RSA division is embracing the virtualisation…
  • Windows needs patching every five days

    Also important, he said, was that the typical user had to master 22 different patch mechanisms, one from each of the 22 software makers whose programs were on her PC.That's why we called for software vendors to create a unified patching standard…

Latest Features

  • The security nightmare of REST web services

    Use SHA-2 and up, avoid SHA ll be getting into greater technical depth on REST web service security issues and methods at the RSA Conference 2010, session ID AND-203. Clearly, REST (Representational State Transfer) is winning the web service…
  • CA releases raft of admin tools for 'Lean IT'

    The new versions are designed to expand recovery management capabilities, including virtualisation improvements, built-in data de-duplication and Storage Resource Management (SRM) and DR testing, to improve recoverability of critical business…
  • Why employees ignore security

    According to a recent survey from security firm RSA, a majority of workers polled said they regularly feel the need to dodge corporate security policies in order to get their job done.The survey points out that while many companies are concerned…
  • Ransomware - frightening but thankfully rare

    Gpcode isn't new, in fact, but this 2008 variant turned out to be using encryption RSA 1,024 bit no less - sophisticated enough to defeat attempts to reverse engineer the key. Along with anti-virus companies around the world, we're faced with the…
  • Vista security annoying by design

    As reported by Ars Technica, UAC was created with a very specific purpose in mind: to annoy you.Ars picked up this tidbit at the recent RSA 2008 security conference in San Francisco, where David Cross, Microsoft's product unit manager for Windows…
  • NAC starts to get its story straight

    At this year's RSA Conference, there were fewer sessions and displays devoted to NAC than at previous conferences, but interest in the technology still seemed to run high among 2008 attendees. At this year's RSA Conference, there were fewer…
 

How-Tos

  • Bring the new iPhone into your business

    The iPhone's VPN capabilities are solid - comparable to Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices - with a choice of L2TP and PPTP protocols and support for EMC RSA Security's SecurID key-based authentication.
  • Readers' favourite free network tools

    Also available with the package is a secure FTP client for transferring files encrypted and an RSA and DSA key generation utility.PuTTY is one of those rare small freeware packages with huge benefits.
  • Case Study: Data loss prevention takes a catch

    With only two network engineers - whose time is consumed with managing firewalls, the virtual private network, RSA SecurID tokens and the like - it's difficult for us to get the full benefit of those sensors, which need to be tuned to decrease…
  • Case Study: Tech company goes real-time

    Because the new WLAN is small, EMS chose not to go with Cisco's WLAN controller-based architecture.For authentication, EMS uses the Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP), crafted by Cisco, Microsoft and RSA Security.
  • Security schemes for handheld devices

    An RSA SecurID-type token, generating a PIN, could be used but this type of security typically needs a link back to an authentication server, so is less useful for controlling access to a standalone PDA, say.Security researchers are therefore…
  • Set up 802.1X in sixty minutes - Part 1

    If you're going to use Secure Computing's SafeWord or RSA's SecurID or any other one-time password system, you'll need to find a RADIUS server that can talk to that authentication database. Authentication can be intimidating.

Reviews

  • Encryption software group test

    There are several block ciphers used today, all with variations in their approach, such as DES, AES, RSA and Diffie-Hellman.Many encryption products that use block cipher encryption can integrate with a PC's Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
  • SanDisk Cruzer Enterprise

    This can also look after the encryption and remote drive wiping.Businesses using RSA's RSA SecurID software authentication will note that the Cruzer can function as a token on such networks, a neat if proprietary extension to its security features…
  • PrimX ZoneCentral v2.5

    The receiver can then open the container and access to documents either by specifying an RSA certificate or, more simply, by agreeing a password in advance. But what makes a real difference is the management, without which encryption can be an…
  • disgo Xkey

    It's a thumb drive you can lose and be sure no one can read the content unless they are world class at cracking RSA security algorithms.The device comes with an on-board application supported on Windows 2000 and XP operating systems.

White Papers

  • The Impact Of Strong Authentication On Usability

    The Impact Of Strong Authentication On Usability RSA, the Security Division of EMC For financial institutions utilising the web whitepaper The key to maintaining a healthy channel is to provide consumers with the assurance that their online…
 
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