Rift Caused By Malfunctioning Voting Machines

By Lashan Clarke

There has been a rift that continues to widen between security scientists, and manufacturers of voting machines. The rift has been widening to the point that many at the RSA Security Conference was calling on both industries to consider a “truce”.
Numerous flaws have been found in the softwared used in electronic voting machines, and this [...]

Sun and NSA team up for new version of OpenSolaris

By Isabelle Chaize

Sun Microsystem’s OpenSolaris operating system is to be enhanced by a deal between Sun and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
The merge will integrate Flask (Flux Advanced Security Kernel), the NSA’s security architecture for operating systems, into OpenSolaris in a move which will create mandatory access controls in OpenSolaris.
This will enable admins of [...]

East-Tec Eraser 2008 released

By Isabelle Chaize

East-Tec Eraser 2008, a program designed to permanently wipe data from your computer, has been released.
It can be used to completely delete sensitive data from your system or information stored on your machine without your knowledge. This is often difficult as even once the recycling bin has been emptied, content remains on the hard [...]

Businesses to gain from DIY hard drive recovery

By Dave Nixon

Data rescue authority Retrodata has announced what it maintains is the first device for recovering damaged hard disk platters that can be effectively used by non-experts.
Named the System P. EX (for “platter extraction system”), the 75-kilogram device uses laser-guided positioning to assist it precisely extract platters from any 3.5 inch hard drive with token [...]

Hard drive encryption not secure

By Dave Nixon

Encrypting your laptop’s hard drive does not maintain safe data, according to researchers at Princeton University.
They’ve revealed a method to appropriate the hard drive encryption key used by products such as Windows Vista’s BitLocker or Apple’s FileVault. With that key, hackers could get admittance to all of the data stored on an encrypted hard [...]

Lawsuit Filed Against The DHS

By Lashan Clarke

A lawsuit has been filed against the Department of Homeland Security for its use of electronic searches at the US border. The lawsuit filed on behalf of the Asian Law Caucus, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. These civil groups cite the purpose of their lawsuit against the Department Of Homeland Security is the use of [...]

Malware Attached To Digital Photo Frame

By Lashan Clarke

Last month three people reported that the flat panel photo frames they received, tried to install malware onto their computer system. This information was released by the Internet Storm Center, which stated that each person had received the same brand of photo frame from the same group of stores. The Internet Storm Center is not [...]

New network test appliance from BreakingPoint

By Janet Harris

Startup company, BreakingPoint Systems, is launching the BPS-1000 network test appliance, which aims to give customers an accurate picture of how their networking equipment will perform in the real world.
The device can detect security vulnerabilities in routers, load balancers and other devices. It also enables users to see how their networking equipment performs under a [...]

SonicWALL TZ190 featured at Business Continuity Expo 2007

By Janet Harris

E92 Plus Ltd will demonstrate its latest SonicWALL product, the TZ190, at the Business Continuity Expo, which will take place at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London on the 28th-29th March.
SonicWALL TZ190 is a network security appliance which provides secure broadband wireless Internet access. Users can instantly create a secure 3G wireless broadband network in [...]

Kingston announces DataTraveler Secure

By Janet Harris

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., has announced the availability of its DataTraveler Secure and DataTraveler Secure - Privacy Edition USB 2.0 Flash drives in 8GB capacities. 
The drives have titanium-coated, stainless steel casings, which are waterproof and capable of withstanding harsh operating conditions. 
They incorporate 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) hardware-based encryption to safeguard critical data. This allows [...]

Intel boosts security with vPro chipsets

By Janet Harris

Intel Corp’s 2007 line of vPro business desktop chipsets, codenamed ‘Weybridge’, place the emphasis on security and energy efficiency.
The new chipsets feature network firewall capabilities, and introduce the memory protection capabilities of the Trusted Execution Technology (TET) codenamed “LaGrande”. The upgrade includes an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and adds support for industry management standards. 
TET [...]

Yoggie launches Gatekeeper Personal and Gatekeeper SOHO

By Janet Harris

Yoggie Security Systems announced the release of the Yoggie Gatekeeper Personal and Yoggie Gatekeeper SOHO, at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany.
The appliances, which are about the size of a credit card, provide enterprise-level security in a user-friendly form.
Yoggie Gatekeeper Personal is designed to protect consumers’ laptops and PCs, while Yoggie Gatekeeper SOHO protects up to five [...]

Vasco adds authentication to aXs security appliance

By Janet Harris

Vasco Data Security International, a software security company, specialising in authentication products, is launching aXs Guard at the CeBIT 2007 trade fair, which will take place from March 15-21 in Hanover Germany.
Vasco acquired the aXs Guard security appliance when it took over Able NV, a Belgian security company, in December 2006 and has enhanced the [...]

ASI to sell laptops with Seagate’s encrypted hard drive

By Janet Harris

ASI Computer Technologies of the US is to start selling laptops with Seagate Technology’s new Momentus 5400 FDE.2 hard drive, which features built-in encryption technology.
The computers, called ASI C8015, will be sold through a number of ASI’s partners, including Newegg.com, PowerNotebooks.com and ZipZoomfly.com and will be equipped with Seagate’s Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive.
They will also [...]

Sabadille releases SmartLock USB software dongle

By Janet Harris

Sabadille Systems of France has released SmartLock, a driverless USB hardware dongle for software protection, to the USA and EMEA market.
SmartLock provides software publishers with strong copy protection and therefore secure licensing.
The SmartLock system is based on fully programmable CPU smart circuit technology consisting of an 8-bit CPU coupled with an 1024-byte EEPROM. It provides [...]

Businesses spend 15% more on data storage and security

By Janet Harris

According to a new report from US-based Access Markets International (AMI) Partners Inc, small and medium-sized UK businesses (with up to 999 employees) will spend up to $2.2bn on data storage and IT security in 2007, 15% higher than expenditure in 2006.
The research found that while small UK businesses (with up to 99 employees) spend [...]

Concerns over hardware-based rootkit detection

By Janet Harris

At the 2007 Black Hat DC conference, Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher at COSEINC Malware Labs, demonstrated how hardware rootkit protection can fail to find a sophisticated rootkit on a compromised machine.
A rootkit is a program that is used to hack into a system and gain administrative-level access for malicious purposes.
Rutkowska demonstrated three different attacks [...]

Steganos updates encryption software

By Janet Harris

Steganos has launched a new release of its market-leading encryption software for business - Steganos Safe Professional 2007.
The software has been enhanced to provide protection for Outlook data and a fourfold increase in the maximum size of each encrypted safe to 256GB.
The software is ideal for business users who carry company information on mobile devices [...]

HSM level security for mobile environments

By Janet Harris

Spyrus, Inc., the California-based security products company, has announced the Rosetta Micro - the first micro-sized, low-cost embeddable Hardware Security Module (HSM) for highly secure authentication and encryption for embedded devices.
Rosetta Micro is designed for use in consumer electronic devices, such as PDAs, smart phones and other devices requiring high security, where board space and [...]

Cyber-criminals turn to kernel-level malware

By Janet Harris

Kernel-level malware is increasingly being used to attack systems, according to security researchers at F-Secure.
Kernel-level malware acts inside the operating system’s kernel - the component that links the system to the computer’s hardware - compared with traditional malware which runs on top of the operating system.
Kernal-level malware operates with the same privileges [...]

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