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It’s a very painful way to learn an obvious lesson
Aug 5 2004 4:33PM
Security
The open network, or an open door to prosecution?
The last decade has seen organizations of all types and sizes investing huge sums in establishing sophisticated computer networks, aimed at enabling employees to better meet customers’ needs and create a competitive edge.
Jul 27 2004 5:51PM
Security
Our archaic law leaves an open door for cybercrime
Think what the world of IT was like in 1990. A few lucky researchers, military personnel, government workers and assorted hangers-on would have been able to enjoy the novelty of fledgling email and internet services. If you were a forward-thinking large corporate, you might well have a mainframe or a minicomputer network storing and processing crucial data and, although dial-up modems could connect systems to each other and enable remote terminal access, viruses and hack-attacks were minor worries. The occasional infected floppy disc might contain some malware that could potentially compromise the contents of your expensive 40mb hard drive, but a relatively up-to-date antivirus programme would probably protect you. Hackers and virus writers were mostly a minority sub-culture of cyber-kids operating from their bedrooms bragging and swapping war stories on underground bulletin boards.
May 19 2004 3:49PM
Security
An Apple a day keeps outsourced support away
Apr 15 2004 12:00AM
Software
A Little Bandwidth Helps Out in an Emergency
Come fall, school bells ring throughout college campuses across the United States, but as excited students move into the dorms and make new friends, employees of the information systems (IS) departments are pulling out their hair trying to manage the dramatic increase in network traffic.
Jan 16 2004 2:57PM
Security
Software Compliance: A Helping Hand in an Economic Downturn
By now, it's obvious that the economy and the technology sector in particular, are in the midst of a significant downturn. But hand-wringing over ever-dropping stock prices, new rounds of lay-offs and lowered earnings do not constitute a strategy.
Jan 14 2004 2:23PM
Security
Evidence Preservation vs. Business Continuity: An Ongoing Electronic Struggle
On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, a call comes into the help desk notifying a technician that a strange and inflammatory web page is presented whenever someone goes to the corporation’s public web site.
Jan 12 2004 3:01PM
Security
