Monthly Archives: March 2003
ATM Encryption Weakness Leaves Accounts Vulnerable
Two Cambridge University researchers have discovered a new attack on the hardware security modules employed by banks that makes it possible to retrieve customers...
New Anti-Virus Apps Fight Worms
Security vendors are introducing capabilities that up the ante for traditional anti-virus applications to help catch more viruses and rein in emerging threats, including...
Whos Who When
A bevy of single-purpose single-sign-on products, biometric devices and integrated identity management frameworks promise reduced operational costs through streamlined user-rights provisioning. However, not much...
Whirlpool Cleans Up With Single Sign-On
Persuading business executives to spend money on security technologies can be harder than pulling teeth. It can be much less difficult, however, if you...
Sun Tackles Dell, Linux
Since taking on the role of executive vice president last summer, Sun Microsystems Inc.s Jonathan Schwartz has been revving up the Sun software engine,...
Security Is in the Smart Cards
Arent we smarter than this?News that a hacker recently accessed as many as 8 million Visa and MasterCard accounts would have been shocking if...
Scale Eight NAS Device Runs on Commodity Parts
Storage outsourcer scale Eight Inc. is getting ready to try its hand at NAS using skills and software developed internally over the past three...
Storage Switches Get Powered for Efficiency
As SANs mature from a high-end niche into a mainstream technology, vendors are converting switches powering them into application appliances to lower management costs...
Farewell to Floppies?
As the IS manager for a 32-member IT department, Scott Taylor is responsible for data spread throughout the IT infrastructure at furniture manufacturer Smed...
Progress Tunes ObjectStore for Enterprise
Progress Software Corp. is giving its ObjectStore embeddable database enhancements in speed, reliability and flexibility.The Bedford, Mass., developer this week will release ObjectStore 6.1,...