The media has been making quite a lot about the fact that a number of journalists have allegedly been `hacking' into the mobile phone voicemail services of the Royal Family.But how have they have been doing this? Simple - like 60...

Chatting with a pal at a security conference in Manchester this week, I was amazed to hear that Eastern Europeans are moving on from installing card skimming systems on ATMs and into the field of ATM skimming kits.It seems that...

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID),which provides disk redundancy and fault tolerance for servers, is a popular hardware technology that uses an array of disks to provide failover services.Six RAID levels are available,...

Application protection should include the ability to configure the disaster recovery software for a series of corrective actions.For example, the application may have been stopped (by user action, which is sometimes inadvertent),...

Neverfail Heartbeat replicates data updates from one server, termed an Active server, to another server, termed a Passive server.If the Active server fails, the Passive server can take over processing and assume the full identity...

To bridge the gap between clustering and the degree of availability companies need, a market has developed for third-party solutions for disaster recovery.The solutions are designed from the ground up to provide instant failover...

A judge in the US has said that violent video games represent free speech and their sale to minors must not be banned. "Depictions of violence are entitled to full constitutional protection," said Judge James Brady.The state of...

That’s a typical Friday blog post. The Battle of the Bulge continues at the office, according to CareerBuilder.com's annual ‘Work and Health’ survey.Forty-six percent of workers report they have gained weight since starting their...

Hard on the heels of the six year prison term handed down to a US software pirate earlier this week comes news that another chap - this time from California - has been given three years for a bot attack.According to US newswire...

Security experts are warning of an increased threat from Microosft Windows-based atatcks but the company reports nothing out of the ordinary.Silicon reports that McAfee, the Sans Internet Storm Center, Symantec and several other...

More and more people are using online chat for customer service needs according to a survey carried out by SupportSoft. Two-thirds of the people who use online chat for customer service have had a positive experience versus using...

Things are getting hot for the One Laptop Per Child project. According to various sources, it looks like Brazil is going to be the first country to receive the first million laptops ou there.One has to wonder how such a cheap...

In July 2006, I was giving a course on Windows 2003 Security when I came across some disturbing misconceptions about Microsoft EFS security. To give you some background, one of the features that came out with Microsoft Windows...

The most important focus for the implementation of a high availability disaster recovery system is to make sure users can continue to connect to data.If the source and location of the data changes because your failover recovery...

Health Industry : Covered Entities (CEs) must maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their electronic protected health...

Data protection is where a good third-party solution outshines clustering. Rather than relying on a shared storage device, disaster recovery software should continuously replicate all data from the primary server to the secondary...

British citizens are fighting back against the threat of viruses and spyware according to a new survey from the British Computer Society. Almost two in three adults now have access to a computer at home and over 90% of home...