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Current Research in the Bluetooth Security Architecture

This paper aims to provide an overall understanding of the Bluetooth specification security architecture and its shortcomings. A technical foundation of the overall security architecture will be reviewed, primarily focusing on the standard's implementation of device authentication and encryption. The report then provides a brief review of the Security Modes...

Tags: University Of South Australia, Security Architecture, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Security, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-08-30

Wrangling banks' security architecture to allow transactions anywhere

Wrangling banks' security architecture to allow transactions anywheresecurity is not about perceptionthe article positions security as user perception. This is not right. Security must be about withstanding real attack vectors, like man-in-the-middle and cross-site scripting, and phishing. Please push the company to be specific. Their...

Tags: security, security architecture, bank

Discussion threads 2009-06-10

A Security Architecture for Application Session Handoff

Ubiquitous computing across a variety of wired and wireless connections still lacks an effective security architecture. In the research work, the paper addresses the specific issue of designing and building a security architecture for Application Session Handoff,a functionality which the paper envisions will be a key component enabling ubiquitous computing....

Tags: Ubiquitous Computing, Security Architecture, Security

White papers 2008-10-10

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Microsoft Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 public betas now available for download

Microsoft still firmly planted in the LAST century.NTLinux Kernel speaks?Hmmm, I'd fear for the future of Linux if this is what comes out of it. You'd think the "many eyes" would have caught such silly logic in the kernel years ago...and looking ready to dominate this oneas well.Google is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, public beta, Microsoft SharePoint, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Office suites, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

Google to demo Chrome OS; Detail launch plans

the windoze killer has arrivedChrome OS will put the final nail in M$ coffin!You really can't be seriousyou have to be a fake or something.Your posts are allways way off the mark.By like a continent or two.Windoze? Grow up, manI hope Chrome is good - because it will make...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Google Inc., operating system, Chrome OS, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Survey: Cloud confusion among IT could slow enterprise adoption

Security - Connectivity?Can the connectivity be guaranteed, if a glitchoccurs and thousands of customers are lefthanging saving $500 is hardly worth it.Plus, the security holes when dealing with data... Instead of worrying about....whether your are using the cloud or any other "buzz word" technology IT pros need only worry that...

Tags: Marketing research, information technology, good-IT pro, Well HERE, IT Pro, survey

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Where should Mozilla go from here?

Consolidation and security, Now!Firefox has emerged as the most buggy browser robustness and security. It has more vulnerabilities discovered than any other browser, month after month. Each new release sees new stability and robustness problems.And Firefox still does not have support for sandboxing.Repeatedly they have to patch patches because their...

Tags: Web browsers, IE8, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Web browser, security

Discussion threads 2009-11-09

Apple releases iTunes 9.0.2, kills Palm Pre sync ... again

Round up the executive and throw them in jailApple's behavior is simply unacceptable.Palm... Shakes HeadNote to Palm: Make a Front end that uses the iTunes DB or quit trying to keep hacking. It is REALLY stupid. A) You will never keep ahead of this.B) Even if you keep fixing it,...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Smart phones, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Pre

Discussion threads 2009-10-29

Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'

Google CEO Eric Schmidt acknowledges that Google Docs lacks workflow features that Microsoft Office has, but isn't trying to emulate the suite. In an interview with Stephen Shankland at CNet News, Schmidt continued his courting of the enterprise. Schmidt on Wednesday had a good performance at the...

Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-22

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets. Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves...

Tags: Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Information Technology Department, Discontinuity, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Microsoft exposes Firefox users to drive-by malware downloads

is this a part of - framework assistantI am using Firefox 3.5.3 and it has".net framework assistant 1.0" disabled,claiming that is not compatible with thisversion of the browser.what makes this different from the ?Windows Presentation Foundation"that was not disabled until i did it my self ?is one or both the...

Tags: Web browsers, Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, Linux Distro, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Google Chrome, plug-in, malware, Google Inc., security, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

News to know: Oracle OpenWorld; Google Wave; Intel; Windows 7; WiFi

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Ellison's keynote: Linux, Exadata, the Governator and more Paul Greenberg: Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Wi-Fi, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-10-15

T-Mobile turns Sidekick data disaster into a PR mess

This wasn't cloud computingThis wouldn't have happened with cloud computing. In a cloud architecture users wouldn't have even realized any disruption. They would have automatically been distributed among other non failed geo dispursed instances while the failed instance was automatically restarted on other hardware and restored from replicated data...

Tags: Virtualization, PDC, cloud computing, SideKick, T-Mobile, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Product Overview: IBMXIV Storage System

The IBMXIV® Storage System is a revolutionary high-end open disk system designed to support key current and future business require-ments for a highly available information infrastructure. Its design is a grid of standard Intel®/Linux® components, connected in any-to-anytopology using Gigabit Ethernet. This groundbreaking architecture provides outstanding performance, scalability, and reliability....

Tags: Disk, IBM Corp., IBMXIV Storage System, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2009-10-12

Turbulent times call for an agile application foundation.

Does your IT change as fast as the market? A service-oriented architecture SOA provides a foundation that enables agility and aligns IT to business goals. This interactive presentation from IBM® will show you how to provide fast, flexible, reliable access to information, business-wide. It also covers methods to ensure trust,...

Tags: Information Technology, SOA, IBM Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Management

Download resources 2009-10-07

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...

Tags: Solution, BPO, Outsourcing Company, Customer, BPO Deal, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-05

Private clouds: A valuable concept or buzzword bingo?

Governance and Control are a serious isssue...The blog seemed to try to downplay the loss of control of business information and data like it was the same as losing control of an electricity grid. The two things are not the same. When the electricity grid goes down, sure business stops...

Tags: Virtualization, Recruitment & Selection, tech industry, Google Inc., cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Logalty Ensures Scalability and High Service Levels With Service-Oriented Architecture

Logalty wanted to provide a platform to enable the certification of electronic documents and support a high volume of transactions - starting at 10 terabytes of data - while ensuring high system availability and comprehensive security. The challenge was to provide a scalable and flexible IT architecture to accommodate the...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Linux, Servers, Enterprise Software, Databases, Web Services, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management

Case studies 2009-10-01

Lombard Odier Reduces Data Warehouse Development Times With Integrated Solution

Lombard Odier is a financial services provider that offers private and institutional clients a wide range of advisory services in asset management, financial products, and specialized areas. Lombard Odier used to handle the consolidation with file extracts that were then loaded in a cube system. They needed to replace this...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Financial, Lombard Odier, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Finance

Case studies 2009-10-01

News to know: Win7, Google Wave, Palm WebOS, Apple Tablet, Google Docs

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's message to IT pros: Meet us half way with Windows 7 Larry Dignan: ...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Google Docs, Palm Inc., Andrew Nusca, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-30