Antivirus, firewall and IDS products

New solutions for the zero hour

IT vendors are looking to fill the gap between when a virus first hits and when its remedy is released. Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Lawinski, News Writer

Fixes, workaround for Kerberos 5 vulnerability

A security hole could be exploited to launch malicious code. But there are fixes and a workaround. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

Botnets target the enterprise warn experts

Versatile and increasingly vicious bots will cause enterprises a lot of grief in 2005, security experts say. Continue Reading

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• Bill Brenner

NTFS permissions

This excerpt from Chapter 5 of "The definitive guide to Windows 2000 security" discusses the advantages of using NTFS for access control. Continue Reading

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• Paul Cooke

Spamming the universe

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• Douglas Schweitzer, Contributing Writer

Symantec offers bare metal restore software

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• Shane O'Neill

Over-specify when buying low cost replacement for Frame Relay

A project manager reveals how a VPN saved £275,000 a year Continue Reading

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• Peter Skipwith

Know Your Enemy -- Learning about Security Threats: Chapter 8, Legal Issues

Find out more about the legal issues swirling around the use of Honeypots. Continue Reading

Users at risk after web host attack

Users have been warned to brace themselves for attacks on sites which provide patch downloads and web hosting services. Continue Reading

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• Arif Mohamed

From exposition to exploit: One security book's story

A new manual that discloses vulnerabilities may have had a hand in compromises at supercomputing centers this spring. Continue Reading

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• Anne Saita, News Writer

Bacs launches online billing service

UK clearing house Bacs has embarked on a joint venture with a US software company to provide an online bill presentation and... Continue Reading

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• Nick Huber

Users warned as number of software holes soars

IT departments were put on alert this week after it emerged that the number of security vulnerabilities discovered in commercial... Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Victory! Lords confirm CW stand - software flaw could have caused Chinook crash

An historic House of Lords report has this week vindicated a five-year campaign by Computer Weekly for justice after the crash of... Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

CBI warns on cybercrime

A new survey warns that UK e-commerce is being stifled by rising crime and consumer caution about buying goods on the Internet Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

Government picks pathfinder councils

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• Chris Mugan

Government makes grants to council IT schemes

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• Chris Mugan

Government trials digital signatures on mobile phones

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• Arlene Martin

Why PKI?

Public Key Infrastructure could revolutionise the way companies do business online - if only anyone would use it, says Danny... Continue Reading

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• Danny Bradbury

Government Gateway due to launch today

Ministers were today (25 January) hoping to officially launch the Government Gateway, the middleware project that will allow... Continue Reading

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• James Rogers

MoD did not tell the whole truth on Chinook software

Letters from software experts to Computer Weekly show the Ministry of Defence omitted to mention it sanctioned the very testing... Continue Reading

Leaked RAF memo scathing of safety software evaluation

Computer Weekly's Tony Collins uncovers evidence that the MoD has consistently undermined the authority of its software assessors... Continue Reading

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• Computer Weekly's Tony Collins

Chinook software probe due

MPs are next week expected to investigate the air-worthiness of the engine control software on the type of Chinook helicopter involved in the crash Continue Reading

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• Tony Collins

NAO report puts software at the heart of Chinook debate

Tony Collins

Government auditors will report tomorrow (Friday) that defence staff put into operational service a fleet of Chinook...

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• Tony Collins