Thursday, November 1, 2007

Report: IBM launching major data security initiative


Category: Biometric News, Security, IBM Corp., Reuters, Enterprise security, Business Operations
Company expects to spend about $1.5 billion on marketing and product development in data security. IBM is launching a "major initiative" to drive sales in the data security market, including $1.5 billion in spending next year on marketing and product development, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday in...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

One year later, Vista really is more secure


Category: Biometric News, Security, Software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Operating systems
Windows Vista was released to manufacturing a year ago next week, and landed on retail shelves exactly nine months ago today. To mark the occasion, I dragged a system out of mothballs and installed the original RTM version of Vista Ultimate on it. (Well, OK, I also needed a test...
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Likely Lib-Dem leader in ‘no to ID card data’ pledge


Category: Biometric News

Ah, but what about the card, Nick?

Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Nick Clegg has vowed to break the ID Cards Act by refusing to hand over his personal details when ID cards are made compulsory. Clegg, currently the likeliest winner in the LibDem leadership race, could therefore become the first major party leader to break cover as a law-breaking ID card refusenik. But before applauding, we should perhaps consider precisely what he's pledging, and what he's really risking by doing so.…

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The new urgency to fix online privacy


Category: Biometric News, Security, Privacy & data protection, Privacy
Unlike Y2K, which was a nonevent, Internet attorney Eric Sinrod explains why the business world is mobilizing behind what it sees as a real threat. A decade ago, I started writing about online privacy issues. At the time, legal colleagues told me that while they found the topic...
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Monday, October 29, 2007

Bogus FTC e-mail has virus


Category: Biometric News, Security, Identity Theft, Attacks, Reuters, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Cyberthreats
Agency says fake e-mail is a "treasure trove for identity theft," warns recipients not to open it. The Federal Trade Commission, which has declared war on Internet scams, warned consumers on Monday not to open a bogus e-mail that appears to come from its fraud department because it...
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DHS holds terror talks with UK Minister, then detains him


Category: Biometric News

Interested in terror, check, politics, check, step over here sir...

The UK's first Muslim Minister has chalked up his second detention at the hands of the US Department of Homeland Security - with exquisite irony, at Dulles Airport in Washington DC on his way back from talks with, er, the DHS on tackling terrorism.…

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