Tag Archive for 'security'
When simple objects are forced to protest their innocence you know the terrorists are having a laugh at our expense. With a relatively small number of actual assaults (and the threat of many) they’ve managed to make us (and, of course, the people in charge of policing the streets) indecently afraid rather than indecently indignant [...]
Let’s be honest, fingerprint scanning was cool a decade ago, but now when you can buy a cheap mouse with a biometric strip for your favourite digits in its back you know a technology has lost all of its kudos points. Which leaves us with a big “cool encryption” hole, and along come Irikon with [...]
If, like me, you dread deleting the cookies in your browser because you’ve forgotten most of the usernames and passwords to regularly-visited sites, then a simple fingerprint scanner might be a good option. Yes, a mixture of Hollywood scaremongering and honest security concerns have seen us nervous of people either cutting off our digits or [...]
If ever there seemed a good reason for entering MYiTablet’s iPhone giveaway and maybe winning a Starter Pack complete with case, this might be it. David Ciccone [Mobility Today] has been pestering poor AT&T employees who have been “fully briefed” on the Apple cellphone, and all twelve told him that the iPhone was “extremely fragile” and [...]
It looks like while you can download the beta of Apple’s Safari 3 browser for Windows, you probably shouldn’t. Security experts have been busily testing the software - hailed as twice as fast as IE7 - and found a number of instabilities and, more worryingly, exploit vulnerabilities that could see websites run multiple commands on [...]
Honestly, the things they make to plug into a USB port these days. It used to be that if you wanted enterprise-level security then, well, you’d probably need to be an enterprise with the budget to go with it; otherwise you wouldn’t be able to afford the chunky server that would scan all incoming and [...]








