Eleven people have been charged with hacking major US retailers, including TJX, and compromising the credit- and debit-card details of over 40 million people.
More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine.
Microsoft on Friday will release a limited preview of its upcoming service pack for Exchange 2003, including its latest tools for pushing e-mail to mobile devices.
The data protection feature in Microsoft Word and Excel documents has a major flaw that could allow snoopers to decode password-protected files, a security researcher has warned.
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As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.
Organisations face a host of security concerns driven by the power of technology and the vulnerabilities inherent in its use. IT pros have to be vigilant about all these issues, from system penetration threats to hardware portability to employee turnover.
Off-the-record instant messaging enables chatters to confirm identity of other person, leaves no trace of conversation.
Companies are under pressure to keep more data for longer periods of time due to regulatory requirements. How should IT departments cope with electronic communications archiving?
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Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
A new version of Microsoft Office for Mac is due in a couple of weeks. Here are our impressions after testing the release candidate for a month or so.
The ease and convenience of instant messaging has made it popular with users. But is instant messaging a curse or a boon for the office environment?
The safest way to exchange instant messages (IMs) is to stay within the enterprise, but in most cases the IM cat is already out of the bag, and security staff are playing catch up.
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