Topic: Virus protection

22 May 2008

US power grid at risk of cyber-attack

By Tim Greene, Network World (US)

The network controlling the US's largest public electric company could be taken down by cyber-hackers because it has failed to take basic security measures, a federal report has said. Read more...

27 September 2005

Thin-client computing makes headway, part 2

By Elisabeth Horwitt, SNW Online

For those replacing or extending mainframe-based apps, thin clients can offer many of the benefits of PCs without most of the hindrances. Read more...

25 March 2004

Think before going "thin"

By David Cartwright, Techworld

Running applications on terminal servers needs careful sizing up. Here are the main things to look out for. Read more...

23 June 2008

How a laptop nearly ruined one man's life

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued Michael Fiola a Dell Latitude in November 2006, it set off a chain of events that would cost him his job, his friends and about a year of his life, as he fought criminal charges that he had downloaded child pornography on to the laptop. Read more...

01 February 2007

Network Access Protection

By Global Knowledge

Network Access Protection (NAP) is a security-policy enforcement technology built into Windows Server Longhorn, Windows Vista, and WindowsXP-sp2 that allow a computer administrator to develop and enforce compliance with health policies for network access and communication. NAP provides administrator-defined requirements for system health policy enforcement that help ensure computers connecting to a network or communicates on a network meet these policy requirements. NAP also provides an Application Programming Interface (API) to help administrators, developers and vendors enforce compliance with health policies for network access and communication. Read more...

24 May 2004

BorderWare MXtreme 400

By David Cartwright, Techworld

• List price: MX-200: £3,950; MX-400: £11,850; MX-600: £27,640
• Pros: Can act as a firewall or a mail server; sensible use of commercial add-ons such as Brightmail and Kaspersky AV; RAID as standard in all but the entry-level version.
• Cons: Installing software patches means multiple reboots; the Ethernet ports don't seem to be labelled, so you have to guess which is which. Read more...

20 October 2006

How to avoid phone viruses

By David Geer, CSO

In case you didn't know, here's a rundown of phone dangers, and steps to stop them. Read more...

07 April 2008

The 11 year-old network manager

By Ellen Messmer, Network World

When this school's IT overseer left suddenly, one of its pupils stepped in for the learning experience of a lifetime. Read more...