News (13)

  • Judge halts Defcon hacking speech

    A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.

  • Oyster security "fundamentally broken"

    Details of vulnerabilities in the chipset used in London's Oyster travel smartcard have been released by Dutch researchers, who have said the smartcard's security was "fundamentally broken".

  • Aust-headquartered company scores smartcard deal

    Australian-headquartered secure electronic transactions provider KeyCorp has secured a sub-contracting deal with Hong Kong-based PCCW Business eSolutions to deliver 1.2 million smart-cards for the territory's smart-card identity system.

  • Dutch researcher claims e-passport hack

    A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a video to prove it works.

  • US subway hackers still gagged

    A US judge let stand a temporary restraining order preventing three Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from discussing or disclosing their research into security vulnerabilities in the payment system for the local subway system.

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Features and Case Studies (2)

  • Security: Are you fully armed?

    Security is like an onion: getting to the heart of it makes people cry a lot. But in order to protect your systems, security vendors are now recommending an onion-like multilayered approach.

  • Security innovation: Building a better louse trap

    In the last few years, most of the innovation in security has involved finding clever new ways to do things with existing technologies. Are there revolutionary changes in the wings?

Reviews (1)

  • HP builds security into Vectra VL600

    Secure client systems will become a necessity as the world moves to Internet-based communications. Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Vectra VL600 is a solid choice for companies looking to build in security at the desktop level

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