Monday, June 28, 2010
SanDisk's SD card can store data for 100 years The cards can be written on only once, the company said. The card is designed for long-time preservation of crucial data like legal documents, medical files and forensic evidence
Friday, May 21, 2010
Wal-Mart to support smartcard payments Retail giant's reported move to chip-and-PIN transactions could finally nudge others into doing same in the U.S.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Equipment makers show 100 GbE systems Carriers and service providers need single-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for high-performance data centres, cloud computing and scientific applications. Vendors test-fire equipment at SC09
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Heartland data theft kingpin was U.S. gov't informant Albert Gonzalez, credited for the data breach involving 130 million credit cards, allegedly worked with the feds to rat on jail cohorts while launching his own massive attacks...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Miami man indicted for massive data theft A 28-year-old man and two co-conspirators are facing charges for lifting information from more than 130 million credit and debit cards
Friday, July 17, 2009
E-commerce industry opposes Indian online security rules New layer of security, lack of customer education, and poor Internet connection will cause online mayhem, industry members fear...
Thursday, May 28, 2009
U.S. travelers start using RFID-tagged passports June 1 Despite fears that RFID chips can be cracked, Canada's own ePassport program is scheduled to roll out by 2011 
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Vintage technology: Inside the LCBO How IT powers the Liquor Control Board of Ontario
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Data centre 10G whets switching companies' appetites Products scheduled for rollout this week include modules that support high-density Ethernet aggregation. Find out what’s new from 3Com, Brocade, Extreme and Force 10
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Security breach cost Heartland US$12.6 million so far The payment processor is still tallying the damage from last winter’s breach and has distributed samples of malware to other companies. Read about the encryption system it is working on
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
4 Canadian universities prep for IBM ACM finals The annual challenge pits post-secondary students against one another on a series of problems that only the best programming skills could solve. How Waterloo, Alberta, UBC and McGill hope to win
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Users gain options for mobile voice encryption Exhibitors at the CeBIT show demonstrated technologies such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Advanced Encryption Standard to scramble voice calls. Find out what Secusmart, Caspertech, Compumatica and Rohde and Schwarz have in store
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Security problems still plague retailers' wireless LANs A Motorola survey indicates security around Wi-Fi networks in shopping malls has improved, thanks in part to WPA2.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
EU investigates possible smart card chip cartel Commission is investigating price fixing, customer allocation and the exchange of commercially sensitive information among makers of chips in cellphones and bank cards
Monday, November 24, 2008
Home and office holiday gift ideas The gifts on the following pages all have one thing in common -- they rocked during our tryouts SLIDE SHOW AVAILABLE
Monday, November 10, 2008
Wireless, solar power drives Montreal bike rentals The city plans to roll out a self-serve system called BIXI that helps users plan short inner-city trips by picking up and returning vehicles from terminals. Where RFID fits in
Thursday, November 06, 2008
HP's GT7725: Thin client, heavy performance Hewlett-Packard Co.'s GT7725 thin client is "just like local" and combines blade workstations and remote graphics software, according to the company
Sunday, October 26, 2008
U.S. RFID passports, drivers' licenses vulnerable to snooping RFID-enabled cards can be read and copied by hackers hiding as far as 150 feet away
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Sprint's 4G Xohm WiMax: How fast is it? Tested in Baltimore, the Xohm network delivered a peak download speed of 4.4Mbit/sec., while AT&T could muster only 1.7Mbit/sec. But there are only a handful of WiMAX-capable laptops, modems or data cards
Monday, September 15, 2008
Busting MythBusters' RFID conspiracy tale Did the credit card companies pressure Disney to axe a segment of the popular show on RFID? Network World columnist Paul McNamara investigates. Sorry, fans, no explosions
Monday, July 28, 2008
Senior VP, Technology research, Harris/Decima The rapidly evolving payment industry is undergoing a new chip and PIN revolution in Canada and merchants will need to stay on their toes to keep up. Industry observers, including a newly appointed Canadian INSIDE Contactless executive weigh in on the issue
Sunday, July 06, 2008
Capacity of memory cards for cellphones to leap, say analysts Squeezing MP3 players and digital cameras into cellphones is pushing demand for more portable memory. As a result, the average capacity of removable memory cards will dramatically expand in the next few years
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Summertime security: No letup for IT For IT and security managers in businesses, hospitals and universities, this is just another season to get things done. A roundup of projects offers soem inspiration and best practices
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Five road warrior IT crisis strategies you can use Before you let enterprise executives out the door with their mobile computing gear, make sure they have a backup plan in case something goes horribly wrong. Like these ones
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
U.K. government's citizen databases slammed by outgoing politician The U.K. government's use of large IT databases on citizens has been slammed by David Davis MP as he resigned from parliament. The resignation is the latest vocal attack on the government's IT databases, after the Home Affairs Committee urged the government to stop creating databases without first proving they are necessary.