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Tuesday August 15, 2000
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Wireless Security Securing the Mobile E~Conomy
Guy Singh
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The marriage of the mobile phone and the Internet will never be as fruitful as analysts predict unless a manageable and scalable end-to-end wireless security system is adopted by mobile commerce vendors. Without such an infrastructure, the mobile mantra will become the mobile dodo.
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Is a Firewall Really Enough to Protect Your Intranet?
By Leif Akesson
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A firewall offers only a perimeter protection. However, an external attacker would not assault the firewall unless it is known to be flawed, but instead concentrate on other weak points. These attackers may already have legitimate access to resources on the internal network, or may include a customer, a business partner, a home user, or another remote user.
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What is Secure E-Mail?
By M. Patrick Hayes and Bradley L. Hecht of TechnologyEvaluation.Com
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The number of Internet users with e-mail capabilities has surpassed 200,000,000 people. Given the explosion of Internet e-mail, it is shocking that security has only now become a major concern.
- How To Mitigate Holiday Cybercrime
By Laura Taylor of TechnologyEvaluation.Com
- Cyberfraud is clearly on
the rise, and with the holiday season coming up, it behooves you to
understand the risks involved before shopping on-line. According to Sam
Nair, director of loss prevention for Cardservice International,
"Internet merchants are not keeping enough checks and balances to combat
fraud."
- Security Excerpts
from "The Elements of Intranet Style"
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IDM will feature a series of excerpts from Eric Brown and James W.Candler's "The Elements of Intranet Style" over the next several weeks. It features a series of chapters that take you through Intranet conceptualization, design and beyond.
- VPNs Are Hot, but What Are They?
By Laura Taylor and Bradley L. Hecht of TechnologyEvaluation.Com
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The Virtual Private Network (VPN) market is exploding.
There are many different ideas on what a VPN is, and
how to implement them. This article clarifies what
sound VPN products and services should include, and
what to expect as the market matures.
- Issues in Intranet Security
- An overview of challenges and approaches to securing the keys to the enterprise. By Stephen Cohn of nCipher, Inc.
- President Proposes Security of Medical Records
By Laura Taylor of TechnologyEvaluation.Com
- President Clinton has announced
plans to ensure the privacy of patient medical records. This initiative
will prove to be extremely expensive, and will pose a number of
technology challenges .
- Update: September 1999
- New vulnerabilities reported in Internet Explorer 5, Site Server,
Microsoft Commercial Internet System (MCIS), the Windows TCP/IP
stack, Microsoft Virtual
Machine and more. Linux alerts updated as well.
- Secure Your Search Engine
- A serious root level compromise on Zeus Technologies' high-performance web-server was reported on the well-known Bugtraq security mailing list.
- Secure Etoken Deployment
- Packard Bell / NEC Leads Secure Etoken Deployment
- Secure Search Engines?
- Webservers running search
engines are vulnerable to a serious security compromises. User passwords
and logins can be stolen, and the entire server could be brought to its
knees by hackers
- Banking Laws are Outdated
By Laura Taylor of TechnologyEvaluation.Com
- New banking laws that are more current than today's Depression Era banking laws need to be crafted to protect consumers, as well as the health of today's financial community.
- Focus on Windows NT
- As Summer
1999 winds down, so much of importance is going on with Microsoft's
operating system that this special edition of Insecurities is dedicated
to it.
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