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Computer passwords are a fact of modern life; here are some tips for staying secure and memorable.
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Sometimes when I look at envelopes I understand technology. When I was a student in college, I worked in the server room where we had a secret lock box full of envelopes. Every time I had to upgrade a database or create a new user, I remember looking for the right envelope (will it be this yellow one? Will it be this blue one?). After I found it, I went happily to the designated server. You can imagine how disappointed I was when I went to the Windows server or to the UNIX server, typed the password stored in the envelope and got "Username and password do not match" or "The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name and domain are correct."
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If this year will be remembered for high-profile data breaches, with the TJX break-in topping a long list, then what troubles are in store for 2008? Predictions include more powerful hacker botnets that elude shutdown and growth in numbers of compromised Web sites that attack trusting, unsuspecting visitors Those are some of the picks from Symantec’s director of emerging technologies, Oliver Friedrichs. A rundown of his top five:
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The greatest strategic challenge facing leading global businesses in 2008 will continue to be regulatory and compliance risks, according to "Strategic Business Risk: 2008 - The Top 10 Risks for Global Business". This is closely followed by global financial shocks, workforce and consumer aging, and the rise of emerging markets
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A new survey has revealed than many companies do not activiely manage and monitor their chinese suppliers. In light of recent counterfeit and safety concerns the survey highlights an urgent need for review.
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Forget about attacks through your firewall. What about the guy who phones up the IT helpdesk, pretends to be a senior manager and gains access to your information that way? This is social engineering - exploiting human vulnerabilities rather than technical ones.
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The Information Security Forum (ISF) today publicly launched the 2007 version of its international Standard of Good Practice for Information Security Aimed at major national and international organisations, the Standard provides a key resource for organisations committed to reducing the business risks associated with information systems.
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A recent article in Strategic Risk caught our eye, highlighting an innovative method of quickly and simply quantifying and displaying risk on a single sheet of paper.
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Users of encryption systems can no longer refuse to reveal keys to UK authorities after amendments to the powers of the state to intercept communications took effect on Oct 1, 2007. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA) has had a clause activated which allows a person to be compelled to reveal a decryption key.
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Climate change could end globalization by 2040 as nations look inward to conserve scarce resources and conflicts flare when refugees flee rising seas and drought, national security experts warned recently
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The recent wildfires in California are expected to produce insured losses between $1.2bn and $1.6bn, according to Impact Forecasting, a unit of Aon Corporation.
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Jonathan Evans, the Director General of the UK Security Service, MI5, has spoken at the Society of Editors' conference in Manchester on 5 November 2007 on the subject of the terrorist threat facing the UK
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A steady rise in weather-induced catastrophes in Europe and elsewhere has increased insured losses by 250% since the 1980s, according to Munich Re.
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Anyone who tells you that your IT network is "100% secure" is either a fool, or greatly mistaken. Security is a moving target, and unfortunately, this target is being manipulated by the bad guys.
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Although virtualisation is not a new concept its present implementations are changing the face of corporate IT, through the reduction of the number of physical servers, the consolidation of rack space and the cutting of energy costs.
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Stories of ‘yet another IT security lapse by company X' are hitting the headlines far too often, each time raising the alarm about how little is being done to protect commercially sensitive data on mobile devices and the hidden costs associated with this negligence. Some recent victims of laptop security breaches include organisations in the retail, banking, public sector and local government markets.
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The theft of CDs containing the personal information of 25M UK citizens has rightly caused an out-pouring of "Shame on you" on HMRC and prompted questions like "How could you let this happen?" The real question that the British people should be asking though is this: "Who else has lost my data that I haven't been told about?"
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