Internet Security Sucks
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Symantec has published a new report into various aspects of Internet security, and pretty unsurprisingly tells us what we already know: things are getting worse. The 10th Symantec Internet Security Threat Report looks at threat activity that took place between January 1st and June 30th this year and its key findings (complete with my patented Homer rating in italics) are:
Everyone connected to the Internet, whether you do so for email, online banking, IM, is at risk without
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The IT energy meltdown
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Oh no, I can almost hear you groan, not another Gartner report telling me what I already know but in a much more expensive way. Well, sort of, but this time it
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Vista: the security application breaker?
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Symantec are not happy bunnies, and for once it
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Great smartphone, shame about the customer service
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The MDA Vario II is quite possibly as near as you
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Lost property laptops auctioned off with your data
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A rather interesting press release (yes, they do exist) found itself on my radar recently, claiming that 40% of mobile phones, PDAs and laptops left at airports over the summer will simply never be reclaimed by their owners. And that
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The password mismanagement minefield
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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The latest RSA Security annual password management survey, covering more than 1300 businesses across the globe, confirmed what most of us already know: passwords remain the weakest link in the business security chain. Well, to be more precise, managing corporate passwords is the real problem. Sadly, little has changed in the 12 months since RSA published the results of its first such survey and end users are still faced with an overwhelming number of passwords to mismanage. The end result being behaviours that fall way short of secure, that invite security breaches and could encourage potential compliance issues.
Of the people polled who were employed directly in the field of corporate password management, 57% admitted that they don
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Shock, Horror: Untrendy Tape Gets Seriously Secure
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Both Sun and IBM have revealed their latest efforts to convince us that there is still plenty of life left in tape driven data storage, and the big secret, literally, is built-in encryption. IBM were first off the blocks on Tuesday with the news that they were making encryption technology available to users of their System Storage TS1120 drives, as in available for an upgrade fee if you already have one but free if you are ordering a new unit that is. With a native capacity of 500Gb and transfer rates of 104Mb/s, it all sounds none too shabby.
Sun followed on Wednesday with the equally snappily named StorageTek Crypto-Ready T10000 tape drive (and with such a memorable name if you were at the annual Sun users conference last November you will no doubt recall them discussing it then) which features the same 500GB of native capacity as the IBM unit, but a faster 120Mb/s native transfer rate, oh yes and the ability to encrypt data as it is written to the cartridge of course.
Sun have also been making a fuss about the new StorageTek Crypto Key Management Station, based upon a Solaris 10 powered Sun Ultra 2 workstation appliance, but which can enable users to access that encryption technology without having to fanny around making changes to the OS, software or critically their tape libraries.
Of course, there has been the usual squabbling between the two of them. Mainly focussing on the IT war crime of using proprietary technology. Sun pointed the finger at IBM with a
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Is the mobile phone virus threat over-hyped?
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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I have just returned from a couple of days spent in Helsinki, the capital city of Finland, as the guests of IT security specialists F-Secure. During my visit I discovered many things: eating bear sausages and elk mousse gives you tummy ache, it is actually quite warm in Helsinki at this time of year (although you can ski to the F-Secure offices in winter), only 6% of the population speak Swedish and mobile phone viruses do actually exist.
That last factoid being the most surprising, it has to be said. Despite the many claims of how your mobile (be that a Bluetooth equipped handset or a fully fledged Smartphone) is the next target for those that would do you harm, steal your identity and empty your wallet, the truth is that since the first mobile phone virus was discovered by F-Secure a couple of years ago none of that hype has become reality. So why do I believe the problem is anything more than marketing collateral to get us to part money for a mobile phone anti-virus application, which F-Secure just happen to have developed?
Well, the fact that I have now seen a number of the known exploits in action might account for it. You see, at the F-Secure threat research labs there is a rather impressive looking RF shielded room that wouldn
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Stupid names, serious threats
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What is it with the world of IT security and naming conventions? I mean, OK, we
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