This warning isn't just about protecting mobile devices - some malware will sit on a laptop and then move onto a corporate network at a later stage. The rise of WLANs based on 802.11b - also known as Wi-Fi - is indisputable in offices and homes.
However, Nokia could not clarify exactly where customers might get hold of the patches or even whether they will be able to apply it themselves. Mark Rowe, an IT security consultant at Pentest, which was one of the companies that first discovered...
Several open source security systems use it already, including OpenBSD, and the PaX and Exec Shield patches for Linux. But when used in conjunction with other technologies.it is a useful defence, because it makes Windows systems look 'different' to...
The Indian government rejected proposals by the country's Planning Commission to buy the $100 hardware from Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. According to local newspaper Kaumudi, India's education secretary Sudeep Banerjee...
Furthermore, I purposely scanned small villages of 30 dwellings or less through to towns up to 30,000 homes. So for this scan I think I can safely state that wi-fi density is greater than 6.2 per cent of homes with around 30 per cent of these nodes...
The first step is to realise that once IT access is granted from outside the physical corporate perimeter, the infrastructure is outside of the business' control and the focus must be turned to the endpoints - the PCs, laptops and mobile devices.