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Top CIO concerns

September 5, 2008 — 5:00pm ET | By Judi Hasson
A report by the Society for Information Management has found that IT and business alignment remain the top concerns for CIOs. "One would think that over 30 years, with all the smart people, CIOs,... Read more...

Passport RFID chips easily duplicated

August 8, 2008 — 8:42am ET | By Paul Mah
To get around the fact that passports could be forged, many nations are incorporating an additional layer of security in the form of an embedded RFID chip into the humble paper-based booklet. An RFID... Read more...

DNS flaws opens the door to an array of attacks

August 8, 2008 — 8:41am ET | By Paul Mah
Security researcher Kaminsky, who first discovered the DNS exploit that had organizations around the world scrambling to patch their Domain Name Servers (DNS), spoke to a packed session at the Black... Read more...

Exploit code for DNS flaw released

July 25, 2008 — 6:23am ET | By Paul Mah
Exploit code for a much touted flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS) has been released. This... Read more...

Source code for 'cold boot' attack released

July 22, 2008 — 9:03am ET | By Paul Mah
The security researcher, who in February this year demonstrated a 'cold boot' attack, has released the utilities used at the Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) conference last weekend. You can read more... Read more...

Security researcher develops rootkit for Cisco routers

May 16, 2008 — 9:59am ET | By Dan Bowman

A security researcher claimed to have developed a rootkit for Cisco routers. The concern is that this could open the door for routers to be intercepted and tempered with at the supply-chain level.

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SPOTLIGHT: Javascript attack gains control of routers

April 8, 2008 — 1:27pm ET | By Mehan Jayasuriya
Running a D-Link or Linksys router with the default admin login and password? For shame. Need yet another reason to change it? Here you go: researcher Dan Kaminsky has developed an attack that can... Read more...

Linux survives "PWN 2 OWN"

April 1, 2008 — 11:27am ET | By Mehan Jayasuriya
As you might recall, the aptly-named "PWN 2 OWN" contest kicked off with a bang last week, when a... Read more...

Is your VoIP network secure?

January 10, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Got VoIP security? Well if you don't, this may be the year that you see the first serious attacks on your VoIP networks. It may also be the year that the forthcoming presidential election and Olympic... Read more...

The CIO's job is about relationships

November 15, 2007 — 8:00am ET
Nobody told you that to be a good CIO, you have to remember how people feel. And despite the sterile conditions that often exist in the IT department, letting people know how they are doing at... Read more...
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