Security News

At Deadline Briefs 12 Mar 2007 04:30 GMT
Short, late-breaking IT news items.

Source: Computerworld

Critics: Clerks Can Easily Redact Personal Data From Web 12 Mar 2007 04:30 GMT
Some security experts question the difficulty of eliminating Social Security numbers from public documents, as contended by some county clerks in Texas.

Source: Computerworld

Native drive encrpytion comes to laptops 12 Mar 2007 04:30 GMT
Seagate's Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive, with native 128-bit AES encryption, comes in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB models and promises not to drain CPU utilization by placing encryption at the hardware level.

Source: Computerworld

You’re Not a Number ... 12 Mar 2007 04:30 GMT
On the Mark: Mark Hall learns what's in the Identity Cube, part of one vendor's approach to identity management.

Source: Computerworld

Seagate ships hard drives with encryption 12 Mar 2007 04:00 GMT
ASI will be the first to sell a laptop with Seagate's hard drive with built-in encryption technology.
Source: ZDNet

New shield foiled Internet backbone attack 09 Mar 2007 23:39 GMT
ICANN report says new load-balancing technology helped the Internet withstand a February attack on the domain name system.
Source: ZDNet

It's baaaaack: WGA reappears on XP by design, Microsoft says 09 Mar 2007 14:00 GMT
Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications, which was updated last month, cannot be permanently removed from the Windows Update list as a potential download, a Microsoft official said.

Source: Computerworld

Lawmakers: Additional pretexting legislation needed 09 Mar 2007 14:00 GMT
Despite dismay from telecom firms and the Department of Justice, lawmakers on Capitol Hill appear ready to once again put their weight behind laws designed to crack down on pretexting.

Source: Computerworld

UK official calls for international privacy standards 09 Mar 2007 14:00 GMT
After a spate of disputes between the U.S. and the European Union over privacy safeguards, the U.K.'s information commissioner is calling for international harmonization of data-protection rules.

Source: Computerworld

Shred your bits for safety's sake 09 Mar 2007 14:00 GMT
The IBM scientist who developed a method of sharing corporate data without revealing what that data contains describes the process and why it's geared toward protecting business resources, not consumer privacy.