Linux PC on a stick brings security to Windows users
By Davey Winder in Editorial
Miniaturisation is a wonderful thing. I mean, how long ago would I have been beaten soundly with the silly stick for suggesting you could easily fit a couple of dozen Linux based computers into your trouser pocket? Exactly, probably no more than last year I guess. Even today the people who watch me type (they do exist, honestly Doctor) are guffawing away as they read this first paragraph.
OK, this will shut them up. The Yoggie Pico is a USB thumb drive no bigger than any other bog standard USB thumb drive. The Yoggie Pico is far from being bog standard, unless the standard bogs you frequent come replete with a full security suite of no less than 13 applications pre-installed and ready to run directly from the memory stick itself. Damn, they are still laughing. Did I mention that it also runs Linux 2.6 courtesy of the 520MHz PXA270 Intel processor on-board? Hey, it has gone quiet now.
I am used to seeing a lot of thumb drives which promise to solve the data security problem of taking your information with you on the move and accessing it on any old computer, any old where. Most of them are the same old same old. The Yoggie Pico is refreshingly different because it takes the route of solving security problems by offloading all your security applications from the PC onto the Little-Linux-Computer that it is instead. This means that all Internet traffic is screened before it can execute on that PC or lappy, and even then only once it has been given the thumbs up and passed fit for inspection. It is not meant to be a portable data device, it is a portable security device instead.
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DKIM is not the answer
By Davey Winder in Editorial
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What is it with all the media fuss over the DomainKeys Indentified Mail (DKIM) proposed standard RFC 4871? This email authentication framework uses crypto signatures to verify domains, and the likes of Yahoo! Mail is already seeing some billion DomainKeys signed emails every day. Impressive enough from a take-up perspective, but will it really make the Internet the spam free safe place to do business that its proponents, including large swathes of the media, claim?
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Spam? Not bovvered
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I like to think that I am as on top of the spam situation as anyone else with a decent understanding of the technologies and strategies of both the spammer and the available solutions. I see relatively little real spam these days, thanks to decent server and client side filtering services doing their respective jobs respectfully well. These fully trained and tailored systems are efficient enough to ensure that false positives are all but extinct. Not that this stops me having to check my junk folders far more often than I
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I am, like most people I expect, getting more than a little fed up with the naming convention that seems to insist that if a product is to be considered cool and trendy it has to be an
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Size doesn’t matter
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Despite being the IT Security Manager with Grant Thornton
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Can an adware leopard change its spots?
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PC Tools has been a major player in the consumer anti-spyware security software business ever since it launched its Spyware Doctor product some years ago. Zango, on the other hand, is the brand name for those businesses previously known as 180Soultions and Hotbar which merged to become this new
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Is paying hackers good for business?
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