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Congress Readies For Privacy Fight

Capitol hill is gearing up to tackle the online privacy issue once again — and this time there appears to be more resolve to...

Web Apps Pose Security Threat

Even if your network is not totally secure, you probably thought you had defenses in all the right places. Think again.The next wave of...

Close Calls, But No Cracks

The dust has settled from the frantic first week of Openhack III, with its heavy traffic and mass of DoS attacks. The second week...

A Cool SSH Security Tool

Putty, Simon Tathams quietly developed SSH client, has become one of my most often used tools over the past several months, particularly during eWeek...

Openhack III Bowed But Not Broken

The battle has begun, and the first salvo was a fierce one, as a cascade of denial-of-service attacks swept over the Openhack III site...

Wrestling with E-Commerce

Washington is more eager than ever to get its arms around the Internet, and much of the work of the 107th Congress will revolve...

Defenses Still Weak

Mafiaboy, the canadian teenager accused of launching DDoS attacks against a septet of the Internets most popular sites last year, pleaded guilty last week...

Absent Serious Medical Intervention, a Fingerprint Is Forever

Its official: biometric technologies have emerged as the new front-runner in the race to become the security industrys next big thing. As manufacturing costs...

The LAN, PAN, WAN Plan

As wireless networking continues to expand across the enterprise, it is important that IT departments evaluate the effects of these technologies on system security...

FTC Shifts To Right

The Federal Trade Commission during the past few years has taken the lead among federal agencies in tussling with online privacy issues, but its...