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Houston, we have a problem. There is no such thing as an un-crackable password. In 1995, the US Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) reported that approximately 80 percent of the security incidents they received were related to poorly chosen passwords. Seventeen years later and little has changed – and the problem might even be worse. […]

Security outfit SecurEnvoy claims that the recently discovered  Windows 7/8 password hints file exposure is another nail in the coffin for passwords. It has been reported how hackers can now gain ready access to the password hints file on Windows 7 and the upcoming Windows 8 platform. Andy Kemshall, SecurEnvoy technical director said that while […]

Commenting on reports that a security developer has concluded that password-creation policies are the enemy of secure passwords, SecurEnvoy co-founder Steve Watts says that the fundamental issue is that conventional ID/password security is now coming to the end of the line as far as security is concerned. The reasons for this are actually more complex that Cameron […]

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De stortvloed aan nieuwe mobiele apparatuur bezorgt it-beheerorganisaties aardig wat kopzorgen. Iedereen met een mooie nieuwe smartphone of tablet wil natuurlijk zijn zakelijke e-mail lezen en het liefst ook andere zakelijke taken uitvoeren. Maar een toenemend extern gebruik van bedrijfstoepassingen en -informatie betekent ook meer risico’s. Beveiliging en beheersbaarheid van alle apparatuur geschikt voor telewerken […]

It might seem hard to believe but the mobile phone was first introduced to the UK in 1985. Just twenty seven years later and the device that we now love is hardly recognisable to those first Motorola handsets. And it’s not just the size and battery life that’s changed. Let’s face it, if you were […]