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Sunday, 09 March 2008 |
 Because of their portability, laptops are particularly vulnerable |
Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. It was previously thought that data held in so-called "volatile memory" was only retained for a few seconds after the machine was switched off. But the team found that data including encryption keys could be held and retrieved for up to several minutes. "It was widely believed that when you cut the power to the computer that the information in the volatile memory would disappear, and what we found was that was not the case," Professor Edward Felten of the University of Princeton told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme.
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Monday, 20 August 2007 |
Corsair Memory Inc. has come up with an ingeniously simple way to secure USB flash drives without having to remember a password -- build a PIN-based "padlock" into the drive itself.
As the picture on the company's Web site makes apparent, the new Flash Padlock drive has a five-button PIN interface on each drive, allowing the user to hit the unlock code before accessing the drive. Doing this is as simple as hitting an unlock button on the unit and then entering the chosen code, which can be up to 10 numbers in length.
For extra security, the Flash Padlock automatically unlocks ... |
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
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Hackers have attacked the United Nations official website, forcing some sections to be taken offline. Slogans accusing the US and Israel of killing children appeared on the pages reserved for statements from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Other pages on the site were also breached by the group, who described their actions as a "cyberprotest". In other attacks by hackers using the same names, they have claimed to be from Turkey. |
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
 There are no accurate statistics for online crimes |
The government must do more to protect internet users from the threat of e-crime, says a House of Lords report. The Lords Science and Technology Committee said the internet was now "the playground of criminals". The report criticised the government's current "Wild West" approach of leaving internet security up to the individual as "inefficient and unrealistic". A Home Office spokesperson said the government was examining the report and would respond shortly. "We are firm believers in the internet. It is a huge force for good. But it relies on the confidence of millions of users," said Lord Broers, chairman of the committee that published the Personal Internet Security report. |
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
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Oracle Corp. today posted its third security update of the year, patching 45 vulnerabilities in its flagship database and its application server, collaboration suite, e-business line and PeopleSoft software.  Nearly one-third of the bugs -- 13 -- can be exploited remotely by hackers without needing to authenticate using a valid username and password. Oracle counts those flaws as the most dangerous. "This means that an attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities remotely without having to authenticate directly to the targeted system," explained Eric Maurice, Oracles' security manager, in an entry on the company's security blog today. Here's a breakdown of the 45 fixes deployed in the July Critical Patch Update (CPU): ... |
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