It is a problem that has been known about for years, and many banks with secure WAP applications keep their WAP gateways behind a firewall to reduce their vulnerability to this kind of attack. Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 - formerly known as Stinger...
Memory keys can be dropped pretty easily. The US Department of Defense drills out the cameras from mobile phones in some offices. Removable storage devices are one of the fastest ways to take the firewall out of the equation.
Network devices will have the ability to tear apart packets, block malicious code, enforce policies and filter content up and down the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) stack. Fragmented security architectures are a liability today, because they...
Cisco and Microsoft are teaming up to make their security architectures interoperable in an effort to keep worms and viruses off corporate networks. The Cisco and Microsoft architectures are part of a new movement in information technology that...
Only two generations before mine, cars were shipped without locks or keys. It would cost nothing to add a firewall and virus protection to all new machines, and then send them to the stores pre-configured with 'shields up' so that the unsuspecting...
During his career as an US Air Force officer he was assigned to the National Security Agency where he helped create the Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (Orange Book) and was co-author of Object Management Group's...