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Smarter Than Your Average Card April 17, 2008 
Think having a credit or debit card with your photo on it is cool? Well, how about a card the same size and thickness as a credit card, with a window that shows a passcode, and with a public key infrastructure chip on it? When you need to use the card, press on its switch and the PKI chip will run an algorithm that generates a one-time passcode for you to use.
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The Uneasy Future of Online Security April 11, 2008 
The face of online security will change drastically, Jim Bidzos, founder and chairman of trusted certificates vendor VeriSign, said in a keynote speech on Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco. "In the '70s in enterprises, there were mainly mainframes." When local area networks came along in the '80s, tokens were introduced and "they were good enough for this kind of access," Bidzos said.
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Security Sleuths Search for a Single Sign-On Solution April 08, 2008 
Project Concordia -- formed last year by vendors offering electronic identity products to create a harmonized standard and ensure identity initiatives and protocols can interoperate -- held a series of demonstrations by seven vendors: FuGen Solutions, Internet2, Microsoft, Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun Microsystems and Symlabs.
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Live From RSA: Getting Ready for the Security Smackdown April 07, 2008 
It's quiet on the streets of San Francisco today, the first day of the RSA Security Conference, being held at the Moscone Convention Center south of Market Street. Traffic on the streets is light, so either the cops are doing a good job redirecting the crazy San Francisco traffic, which in this area can almost rival that of New York, or the gloomy economic news has trickled down to the streets.
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New Tech Fights Chip Piracy With Virtual Lock and Key March 06, 2008 
A new technology unveiled Wednesday aims to prevent hardware privacy by protecting microchips with the virtual equivalent of an embedded "lock" that can be opened only by the patent owner. Called "EPIC" -- short for Ending Piracy of Integrated Circuits -- the technique relies on established cryptography methods.
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Secure E-Commerce From First to Final Click February 27, 2008 
What's most important to consumers when making a purchase online? Personal identity. Consumers are taking more notice of their individual online security after a string of recent identity theft cases made major headlines. According to a recent survey by University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future, 61 percent of adult Americans said they were very or extremely concerned about the privacy of personal information when buying online, an increase from 47 percent in 2006.
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New Security Suite Blocks Data Diversion February 26, 2008 
Perhaps like no other industry before it, the IT industry has come to thrive on continuous innovation coupled with rapid and widespread product introduction. In the competitive -- at times mad -- rush to be first or early to market key things are sometimes overlooked. When it comes to security, it is impossible to identify every vulnerability, much less foretell just how hackers will try to exploit them.
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Security Wonks Warn of DRAM Decryption Danger February 22, 2008 
A new study suggests that dynamic memory on computers stores encrypted, secure data longer than originally thought. The research project -- conducted by eight researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Wind River Systems -- focused on retrieving encrypted data from dynamic random access memory.
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The Day the Music Lived Again January 08, 2008 
There have been many indications in recent months that the music industry is on the cusp of a sea change, and two announcements on Monday suggested that the change is nigh. First, as anticipated in reports last week, Sony BMG Music Entertainment officially announced the launch of its Platinum MusicPass, a series of digital album cards that enable consumers to download full-length albums.
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The Theory and Practice of Secure Data Mining December 21, 2007 
As you read a sentence, its meaning may be clear even before you reach its end. This illustrates our topic. Our minds process text sequentially. As we read, the context presented to us by an author develops in our minds. What precedes clarifies what follows, and vice-versa. This phenomenon is a result of efficiency.
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Data Breaches More Expensive Every Year November 28, 2007
Companies that fail to prevent data breaches will pay higher costs to repair the damage in 2008, according to a recent report. Data breach incidents will also cost these companies additional revenue from lost business opportunities and reduced customer retention. Data breaches cost companies $197 per compromised customer record in 2007, compared to $182 in 2006.
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IBM Places $1.5B Bet on Security Push November 01, 2007 
IBM on Thursday unveiled a slew of new security products and services and said it would continue to invest heavily in security innovations to address customer needs for a more comprehensive approach to information technology risk. On the heels of a security-related buying spree, Big Blue will spend at least $1.5 billion during 2008 to round out security offerings.
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The University's Role in Advancing Data Encryption, Part 2 November 01, 2007 
Research into encryption technology is on the rise at universities and colleges, spurred on by technological advances, pressing security needs, and new legislation and regulations. Investigators in both industrial and academic settings are now looking into a wide range of areas where encryption can be applied.
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Your Cash Is No Good at the iPhone Store October 29, 2007 
Consumers planning to splurge this holiday season and buy iPhones for the whole family will have to make other plans and they will have to pay for any iPhone purchased with a credit or debit card. Apple and AT&T have tightened restrictions on sales of the popular sought device in an effort to prevent resellers from scooping up the handsets.
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The University's Role in Advancing Data Encryption, Part 1 October 27, 2007 
Technological advances are making adoption of network and data encryption more practical than ever, spurring its use in enterprises. Sixty-six percent of respondents to a Ponemon Institute survey said they were hatching strategic plans to meet their organizations' encryption needs, and 16 percent of them already had enterprise-wide encryption strategies in place.
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Russian Firm Files Patent for Password Cracker October 25, 2007 
A Moscow-based software maker filed this week for a U.S. patent on a technology it claims will significantly reduce the time it takes to crack computer passwords. The Russian company, Elcomsoft, said in a statement that it has discovered "a breakthrough technology that will decrease the time that it takes to perform password recovery by a factor of up to 25."
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