Is ISP Content Filtering just political point-scoring? Surely they can’t be serious!?

For those of you fortunate enough to be spared the current onslaught of political rhetoric in the lead-up to the Federal Election in Australia, you might be unaware of topical, technological hot potatoes like the state of broadband (aka “fraudband”), Telstra’s Next G vs CDMA and the sale of the incumbent telco.
Another issue with which [...]

Andrew McColm features in this week’s Green Guide

World-class high-speed broadband is the key to Australia’s future, community radio host Andrew McColm tells Adam Turner.
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Educating the Public about Malware

The other major concern pointed out by Eugene Kaspersky is the need to better educate the public about threats and vulnerabilities surrounding this new digital age. 
Theoretically, this is a great idea; in reality this too, is problematic.
 
Those with the power to educate ordinary folk usually fall into one of two categories; the sensationalists and the [...]

Internet Interpol

Last night, Eugene Kaspersky of Kaspersky Labs told us his dream of Internet Interpol, a regulatory body with global policing/litigating powers. 
The idea brings to mind Professor Jonathan Zittrain’s (Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University) recommendation for a “21st Century International Manhattan Project,” a suggestion that we need a global taskforce to fully [...]

Show 7 of 2007

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Digital rights management is back in the news again this week stirred up by Apple Boss Steve Jobs. In a speech to industry on February 6 he said some have called for Apple to “open” the digital rights management system that Apple uses to protect its music against theft, so that music [...]

Rizvi takes Ellison’s Debut Spot at RSA 2007

It is 3:12 p.m. and I watch in hopeless fascination as Hasan Rizvi, Vice President, Identity Management and Security Products for Oracle, takes the stage at RSA 2007; he wasn’t meant to be here, everyone was waiting for Larry Ellison.
At 2.55 p.m., Rizvi appeared and explained Ellison couldn’t make his debut Keynote; turns out he has the flu and sent [...]

Symantec’s Smart Computing: Helping Consumers Make Smart Choices

Another keynote speaker at RSA 2007 is Symantec’s Chairman and CEO John Thompson who today said fostering consumer confidence in the security of Internet transactions is the “one thing upon which the growth of this online world depends.”
Regardless of the name put to it, he tells us, the Information Age is here and we are in [...]

RSA Conference 2007

So, what is RSA? 
In cryptology, RSA is an algorithm for public-key encryption.   It is important as it created the underpinning of electronic security as we know it today.  Named after its three inventors, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Len Adelman, the RSA Public Key Cryptosystem was invented in 1977 at MIT.
RSA Security developed the RSA [...]

Bill Gates: “Anywhere Access” A Reality via IPSec and IPv6

Bill Gates and Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie shared the stage for the opening keynote this morning at RSA 2007. 
Gates has a vision of secure and easy “Anywhere Access,” where people can be assured of online security; on anything, from anywhere, at anytime. 
According to Mundie, once upon a time, companies knew who [...]