Australian researchers have worked with their U.S. counterparts to develop a way of making public key authentication ubiquitous and more accessible by encoding it as a sound.
An anti-spam technology that focuses on identifying forged e-mail addresses has been proposed as a standard by Cisco, Yahoo and partners.
Sun Microsystems donates new cryptography technology to an open-source project at the heart of many secure transactions on the Internet.
Proposed Web services security specifications are to be submitted to an international standards body by some of the industry's major vendors. But is it enough to protect businesses against the threats?
Six years after the federal government proposed creating a second internet that would leapfrog the first with speed and technology, most users - business and consumer - are still saddled with the low speeds, transmission delays and the other quirks of today's Net
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Sun Microsystems donates new cryptography technology to an open-source project at the heart of many secure transactions on the Internet.
Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
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Mail servers running on the new version of Exchange will encrypt Internet traffic between each other using what Microsoft says will be an open standard.
Version 9.0 of Ipswitch's WS_FTP Professional is one of the most complete, effective and secure FTP applications available.
Computer security firm Cylink says it will close an accepted security loophole inherent in WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology -- as soon as September.
Hackers and intruders probably can't see your e-mail, but "probably" sometimes isn't good enough. PrivateExpress, a document delivery service (US$19.95 a month), uses public key encryption to ensure privacy when sending files across the Internet and then instantly notifies you when a document has been received and opened.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a respected encryption mechanism for protecting email correspondence. PGPi is available for free, so the main reason for purchasing PGP Personal Security 7.03 would be to obtain the extra features that McAfee provides.
Trying to keep corporate secrets away from prying eyes? We evaluate five encryption software packages
Visa CIO touts new transaction technologies
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Australian Govt funds IT start-ups
Google should come clean on datacentres
US shows what OPEL could have been
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