Vendors of security technologies are often accused of over-hyping the threats. This is particularly true in the VoIP sector where critics point to the lack of reports of VoIP security incidents in as evidence of hype. This...

In today's Daily FIRST Security podcast and for the last time this year, our resident security expert Ben Chai brings us fresh interview excerpts fromTom MullenPeter AllorAdam LaurieStraight from the Seville.Listen to this daily...

Work Wise UK welcomes the report published by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) on the June 14 further reinforces its call for the UK to adopt new innovative smarter working practices. The report highlights that in terms...

Tom Mullen, Head of BT e-Crime Team & BTCERTCC (BT Computer Emergency Response Team), shares a few thoughts with Ben Chai at the FIRST Security Conference.Listen to this interview

Now that the FIRST Security Conference is in full swing, SecurityProPortal.com will bring you the latest news from the event. Podcasts of the conference (including interviews with key speakers) will be available to download on...

Nokia Siemens Networks claims to have come up with a simple, but secure, authentication system for mobile phone networks.Known as the Unified Attachment Node (UAN), the technology allows operators to use SIM card authentication...

SonicWALL, Inc. , a provider of IT security and data backup and recovery solutions, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Aventail Corporation, a Seattle-based, privately-held provider of market-leading SSL...

The new LTO-4 tape drive provides 100% more capacity and 50% greater transfer speed than the popular LTO-3 drive, bringing native capacity to 800GB (1.6TB compressed) and native transfer speed to 120MB per second (240MB/sec...

Ben Chai interviews Adam Laurie and finds out how to break into your hotel room location system, your hotel room and finally your hotel room safe…. Adam’s company supplies secure locations for containment of data...

Web 2.0 sites on the Web, such as MySpace and Flickr, are useful services to access but, according to Paul Henry, CTO with Secure Computing, they also expose organisations to potentially serious inbound and outbound security...

Ray Stanton, Vice President and Global Head of BT’s Business Continuity, Security and Governance, Customer Service Practices had a strong message to deliver to attendees of his key note speech.One of his first questions was how...

Mental ill health is the second largest cause of time lost due to sickness absence in UK organisations with stress, depression and anxiety accounting for over 50% of these mental health problems, according to a report published...

The speed of collaborative research using Europe's network of supercomputers will be advanced by a major upgrade announced today. The Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), has increased...

Perforce Software announced its plans to host the Open Watcom Server. Open Watcom is an open source suite of cross-platform compilers and tools for the C, C++ and Fortran languages. It consists of the famous Watcom C++ and...

I’m still kinda reeling from this week’s onslaught of interviews and conferences at FIRST. One of the issues surrounds the civil liberties of the individual. Many of you may have already heard the Podcast with Bob Ayers, the...

Peter Allor is the director of intelligence and special assistant to the General Manager for IBM Internet Security Systems where he is responsible for guiding the company’s overall security intelligence initiatives and...

So I’m in the bar in Seville and I meet my mysterious log guru and relate to him my various conversations regarding the problems with managing the sheer volume of information from the various audit logs. So out of the blue he...

Moving on from my previous two blogs on log files, my mysterious log file benefactor then showed me how using the right techniques, I could then use information within log files to predict a potential security breach. So now...

Nothing annoys me more than a software IT product which starts off with good ideals and product features, but which slips by the wayside in these regards as time marches on. I'm sad to report that Firefox, which was released to...