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Will there be a digital Pearl Harbor?

Will there be one major catastrophe, or just smaller disasters? Panelists discuss what security issues we should be watching out for, where the threat might come from, and the difficulties in predicting the unpredictable. Panelists include: Whitfield Diffie, vice president and chief security officer for Sun Microsystems; Ronald Rivest, Viterbi...

Tags: Professor, Computer Science, Productivity, security, RSA, cryptology, threats

Videos 2009-04-22

Brightmail tackles zombies

Brightmail tackles zombies80% is good, however.....Brightmail is on the right track in my opinion but they are lacking the necessary link in taking the next step. That is notification to the zombie or it's ISP provider a notification email so that they can clean up their act. What the entire...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cryptology, Brightmail Inc., zombie

Discussion threads 2004-07-02

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Domino, cryptology, and response

Domino, cryptology, and responseCrypto futureIt's getting to the point where you might as well just encrypt the entire network. That way you can connect with any old technology, and your communication will always be encrypted. I thought it would be a great idea to do this with WiMAX - so...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Groupware, WIRELESS, Lol, Murph, WiMAX, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Lotus Domino

Discussion threads 2008-11-05

Domino, cryptology, and response

On coolthreads servers the performance effect of turning on Domino cryptology can be zero -and that radically changes the cost picture when you compare hosting alternatives for secure installations. by Paul Murphy

Tags: IBM Lotus Domino, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Murphy, Consultant

Blog posts 2008-11-05

KPMSS Encryptor 1 (Windows)

This program uses the AES government standard encryption to secure your data. This easy to use program allows multiple files and folders to be selected and is even smart enough to remember your selections. While encrypting there is a window form that displays the progress notes and the option to...

Tags: AES, Microsoft Windows, Encryption, KPM Software Solutions, Network Security, Security, Networking

Software downloads 2008-08-08

Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you

And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...

Tags: Computer, Hat Hacker, Productivity, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Betting that Apple will make PPC laptops again

But you won't be able to buy one any time soon. Apple says it bought P.A. Semi to get its hands on some patents and a bunch of very bright engineers who are already used to working together. I'm sure that's true - but...

Tags: Dual-core, Apple Inc., U.S. Department Of Defense, Laptop Computer, Chip, PPC, Robots, Corporate Governance, Processors, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-26

What 2.484564472E24 means for internet security

There are, it seems to me, only three kinds of cryptology systems known: there are the magic hand wave methods - like DES - which attempt to disguise the information content of the encoded message by combining information hiding typically via some form of transposition with information...

Tags: Message, Internet Security, Internet, Productivity, Network Security, Strategy, Security, Networking, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-06

What 2.484564472E24 means for internet security

What 2.484564472E24 means for internet securityYou missed one...4) One time pads. Theoretically unbreakableAs for what 2.484564472E24 means for internet security, you didn't tell us. All you was list 2 common encoding techniques, missed off the most secure one of the lot and then babbled on about language and universal translators.Is...

Tags: Digital security, Network security, SECURITY, Internet, DES, error rate, algorithm, Internet security

Discussion threads 2008-03-06

The meaning of Microsoft Server 2008

Server 2008 looks like a bit of an odd duck - it doesn't meet the promises made for "Longhorn" and "Blackcombe", it's probably neither more reliable nor more efficient than its 64 bit 2003/XP based predecessors, and unlike Vista with which it shares some code the kernel changes amount to...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Kernel, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-03-03

PCI Compliance Whitepaper

The Payment Card Industry PCI is a coalition of credit card companies including American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa. The PCI has created a Data Security Standard PCI DSS which details the security requirements for credit card merchants, service providers and processors. Any organization that stores, processes or transmits cardholder...

Tags: Payment, Credit Card, PCI, Linoma Software, Payment Card Industry, Payment Card Industry DSS, Operational Accounting, Finance

White papers 2008-02-25

Picking the right IT: Are some risks worth taking?

Challenge: pick the right information architecture for a 10 to 15 FTE research foundation. The operating budget runs around two million per year, the mandate is to hand out about one hundred million per year in health care related research grants, the scope is nominally worldwide with preference given to...

Tags: Software, Information Technology, Director, Office, George, Paul, Development Officer, Government, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Hey, I love you too, guy

Here's a comment from not so frequent contributor "SO.CAL Guy": murph_z you should be the last person calling someone a zealot. your the biggest zealot on zdnet. your blog is near the bottom of the list for a reason. ...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., T1, Intel Xeon, Performance Management, Processors, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-01-24

The 2007 IT top ten list

If I had to pick one word to describe 2007 it would be "emergence" - lots of things that were building up to change, changed. In politics George Bush got his mojo back: from stem cells and Iraq to his policies on Russia, climate change, and oil devaluation...

Tags: Game, Apple iPhone, Processor, Marketing, Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Multi-core, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-12-27

The T2 and media reaction

The UltraSPARC T2 announcements back on August 7th consisted of two separate stories. The first of these involved Sun's plan to sell it into the commodity processor market. Unfortunately almost nobody in the press understood either the announcement itself or where Sun's taking this, with the straight up treatment given...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, Paul Murphy, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, UltraSparc T2

Blog posts 2007-09-04

Borland Software Case Study: Tubitak-Uekae

The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey-National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (TUBITAK-UEKAE) is a government-owned research institute and one of Turkey's leading national defense contractors. The Council wanted to establish best practices for software Development and meet requirements on schedule and within budget. The challenge was to...

Tags: Borland Software Corp., Government, Software Development, Aerospace & Defense, Quality, Software/Web Development, Manufacturing, Business Operations

Case studies 2007-06-28

On re-inventing the internet

Last week a story by Anick Jesdanun made the rounds of, according to google, 211 nominally separate news sources under the general title Reinventing the Internet. The opening paragraphs; quoted here from the Kansas City Star: Although it has taken...

Tags: General, Unanswered questions

Blog posts 2007-04-18

A stray thought about the missing Ux86

In a conversation last week, ZDnets senior editor, David Berlind, asked me what would constitute an exciting development for x86 - and I didnt have a thought to offer. But that was then, and now? consider that nobody makes and sells an x86...

Tags: Unanswered questions, General

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Windows Vista activation cracked by brute force

Windows Vista activation cracked by brute forcePlease provide us a few extra keys once done"Brute force" has such a pretty ring to it. Like so many other things MS related.There goes the neighborhood"Microsoft's Windows Vista activation process has been cracked - by using brute force technique"That didn't take long exactly...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Vista thing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-01

Niagara2 - will blow away SQL-Server Clusters

Once upon a time, and in a lab far far away, there was a little machine rejoicing in the name of "atchewi". Atchewi lived for throughput, and as a result I started predicting that a single 1.4Ghz UltraSPARC T1 would offer rough performance equivelance, for non floating point intensive...

Tags: T1, Niagara2, performance, Intel Xeon

Blog posts 2006-12-11