Remember the post about how big security vendors are moving down the food chain to consolidate their hold on the security market? Well IBM through its partnership with (a much smaller) BigFix has released a desktop security solution that is positioned to enhance endpoint security and “reduce cost”.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have published a paper which discusses problems with the introduction of new hand held card readers optimized for online banking in the UK. Here is a part of the abstract:
Many are the articles suggesting ways by which departments can make the most of shrinking budgets in these hard times. If you are a small company, allocating funds for all the security resources you need can prove very challenging. You need to be smart about security spending. Therefore security tools that just do the work for as little as possible is a ‘must consider’.
A US federal court judge has ruled that taking a cryptographic hash (fingerprinting) of a suspects hard drive constitutes a search and therefore a search warrant should be obtained first.
The judge ruled:
“To derive the hash values of Crist’s [suspect] computer, the government physically removed the hard drive from the computer, created a duplicate image of [...]
