Transactional security gets a boost from the PCI SVA
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Synergy, I just love it. I get a press release from software security company PC Tools bemoaning the fact that us Brits are pretty crap when it comes to taking notice of transactional security on the same day as another heralding the launch of the Payment Card Industry Security Vendor Alliance (PCI SVA) which aims to assist merchants, banks and point-of-sale vendors in educating the business community with regard to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). This global benchmark is intended to improve security throughout the entire payment card transaction process, bringing benefit to all
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Fantasy Google OS League
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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The rumours surrounding a Google OS just will not die, fuelled by so called
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Vista best before date already expired
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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With Vista about to hit the consumer market, and already available in the enterprise, it would appear that the future is now. After all, there has been no shortage of hype assuring us that Vista is the future, right? Err, maybe not. Appearances can be deceptive, remember.
For a start there is Fiji, or Vista SP1 if you prefer to be formal. And there should not be long to wait as rumour has it that the service pack will ship in the summer, just a few precious months after the supposedly best ever Windows is launched. Which makes you wonder what it is that Microsoft already know and are not telling us, what is missing in Vista, what doesn
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Who owns your website
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Look, I can understand that any business with a lucrative revenue stream from a resource with a distinctive look and feel is going to want to prevent
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Mobile Phone Number Lottery
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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I have never liked the so called
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Big Brother meets Yes Minister
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Those of you old enough may recall that dangerously close to the truth comedy that was Yes Minister. Perhaps, like myself, you might be forgiven for thinking that someone in government has got hold of a lost script and is acting it out in some bizarre stranger than fiction, and hugely unfunny, fashion.
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Google Boxing
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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So Google has, as expected, announced a number of new features for the Google Search Appliance, the enterprise level search engine in a box that is actually a rebadged Dell PowerEdge with Google inside along with the dual-core Intel Xenons. So what is new, and is it exciting? Well, the new stuff consists of the following, and I
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Poker lessons
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Tyler Cruz is your typical young web entrepreneur, building websites from nothing in niche markets and living off the advertising revenue they generate as well as dabbling in domain brokering and
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Chaos Computer Club explodes Adobe PDF security bomb
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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Adobe Reader has been pretty much single handedly responsible for ensuring PDF has become the de facto portable document publishing format on the web. It could also single handedly allow a universal cross scripting (XSS) exploit to compromise your website and your business. How serious is this particular vulnerability? Well, how serious does the fact that any site hosting a .pdf file could be at risk from attack.
As Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio Fedon revealed at the Chaos Computer Club in Berlin, the open parameters feature of the Adobe Reader browser plug-in allows for the arbitrary execution of JavaScript code on the client side, and that code could easily come with malicious intent. Indeed, Symantec has gone as far as stating in its security response blog that the
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