Intelligent Application Gateway 2007 is the name of it. Through using the VPN technologies of Whale Communications combined with Microsoft’s own Internet Security and Acceleration Server, Microsoft hopes that consumers will find this as a suitable product when it comes to communicating outside standard firewalls. But since its a Microsoft product, will it […]

Entrust has recently developed the $5 security token and Expedia will be the first company to employ it. One thing I would be interested in is whether this was a product in the making for quite some time or if they are just following the path of Paypal. Either way, it’ll provide more […]

… or so that’s what this article says. Honestly, I don’t believe it. Every single operating system in the Microsoft family has been known for having many vulnerabilities, and they each were developed with breakthrough technology for the time. Granted, while I believe it was a wise decision to work off of […]

All I can say is thank goodness. Especially with the personal version of Vista, it would have been nothing short of disastrous if there were only a couple of anti-virus solutions. Why? Well, if there were only a couple of options avaiable, all the hackers would have to do is evaluate the […]

For those of you who have followed one of Microsoft’s main philosophy’s in terms of operating systems, you will know their reputation is based on making operating systems for functionality purposes, and putting security as a secondary objective. Well, this mindset has most definitely make the security community frown as well as all of […]

Now here is an interesting idea… an operating system that is capable of protecting users from their ignorance. For those of you who are not familiar with the topic, social engineering is simply the art of having someone convincing you to do something, usually by acting as someone they are not. It’s one […]

Quantum encryption is considered uncrackable. In the never-ending battle between securing and cracking communication channels, quantum encryption will be our best weapon, which is considered to be uncrackable, even when crackers develop quantum cracking tools with super computers. But is that really the case?
For quite some time, quantum cryptography has been discussed, but […]

All I can say about this is thank God the Navy understands the repercussions of insecure wireless LANs. Especially when it comes to the military, extremely sensitive data and information is at stake, and you don’t want just anyone to be able to waltz into a wireless LAN and have a look around. […]

Yep, you heard right. A company by the name of Vasco is in the process of turning this idea into reality. If you are familiar with how tokens work, then you can understand how this idea with dramatically increase personal security compared to just the standard username/password authentication. With threats only expected […]

It should be obvious that identity thieves and scam artists are going to put in the time when it comes to the Christmas season, since the pickings are so much better. With that in mind, the people behind the Opera browser have jumped into the fight to protect users from phishing scams by offering […]