The recent O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference featured an interesting discussion of the uses of P-to-P technology in the battlefield. A panel discussion entitled "Military Applications of P2P," featured Earl Wardell who is on special assignment for the army to figure out how to improve critical communications using P-to-P.
Digital certificates are data files used to establish the identity of people and electronic assets on the Internet. They allow for secure, encrypted online communication and are often used to protect online transactions.
When intruders last year gained access to 3.7 million credit card numbers in its customer database, Internet retailer Egghead.com Inc. took immediate steps against extortion. The Menlo Park, Calif.-based company issued a press release to signal it wouldn't be cowed into silence, reviewed its security procedures and called in law enforcement authorities.
An unpatched, buggy version of open-source e-commerce software, combined with a misconfigured hosting server, exposed password files earlier this month for approximately 100 domains hosted by Atlanta-based EarthLink Inc.
Microsoft is scrambling to alert users of its Internet Information Server (IIS) software to a serious security flaw that has been discussed online by potential attackers for at least a week.
After a three-year worldwide competition, the U.S. Department of Commerce this week announced that an encryption algorithm from Belgium has been proposed as the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for the U.S.
While attempting to reassure the public that government investigators uphold the privacy of online data, the U.S. Department of Justice offended some protesters by appointing some longtime government employees to the investigative team.
In an attempt to address the privacy concerns surrounding the FBI's controversial and secretive Carnivore e-mail surveillance system, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday announced that it has chosen a team of researchers affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology to carry out a promised technical review of Carnivore.
Internet service providers may soon get an open-source alternative to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's controversial Carnivore computer surveillance system, which delivers court-ordered information on criminal suspects.
In an attempt to give Internet service providers a way to comply with court orders for monitoring e-mail without installing the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's controversial Carnivore surveillance system, security software vendor Network ICE Corp. is developing an e-mail sniffing program that it said could be used as an alternative to Carnivore.
Certicom Corp. in San Jose kicked off its PKS 2000 wireless security conference yesterday with a flurry of new products and services targeted to the growing handheld device market.
In a deal worth almost $US1 billion, Dublin-based Baltimore Technologies PLC announced that it was acquiring U.K.-based Content Technologies Holdings Ltd.
RSA Security Inc. pre-empted a number of celebration parties by unexpectedly releasing the widely used RSA public-key encryption algorithm into the public domain ahead of this week's expiration of the patent on the algorithm.
Microsoft Corp. this week said it's looking at altering the next version of its Internet Explorer browser to allow users to more easily disable the software's "persistence" feature, which lets Web sites gather some information about Internet usage and identify return visitors even if they have turned off Explorer's ability to accept Internet cookies.
Microsoft said it's looking at altering the next version of its Internet Explorer browser to allow users to more easily disable the software's "persistence" feature, which lets Web sites gather some information about Internet usage and identify return visitors even if they've turned off Explorer's ability to accept Internet cookies.