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Esquire to debut electronic ink cover

Magazine testing digitised front page More...

ISPs to crack down on music piracy

Not the musical collaboration file-sharers wanted to hear More...

Google invests in plug-in cars

Do androids dream of electric Porsches? More...

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Mac Inspector

New Mac clones (okay, not so much)

26 Jul 2008For some reason, a TON of attention has been tossed the way of a company called "Open Tech." The firm, which refuses... More...

PCW Inter@ctive

Buy a Mac, get a PC

25 Jul 2008Thank you so much to your informative article, "Buy a Mac, Get a PC" in the September 2008 edition of PCW .... More...

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Latest Hacking Features

Chase De Vere Mortgage Management authentication case study

Chase De Vere Mortgage Management is the UK's leading independently-owned mortgage broker, specialising in professional and independent mortgage advice. The company needed authentication security to integrate with Citrix Gateway. More...

Orange Mountain Bikes anti-phishing case study

Like most companies, Orange Mountain Bikes has come to rely heavily on the use of email in recent years, with its factory in Penrith receiving over 50,000 email messages per day. The problem was that, at one point, Orange estimated that 65 per cent of those messages were spam, contained viruses or were phishing attempts. More...

University of Wales launches content filtering on campus

Trinity College Carmarthen turns to Blue Coat Systems to enforce proper use of new wireless network - and beat malware at the gateway More...

Compass Group and Security Appliances

As part of the largest foodservice and hospitality company in the world, Compass Group (UK & Ireland) provides high quality catering and support services such as staff restaurants, student refectories, hospital patient meals, coffee shops and executive dining - serving nearly three million meals a day at over 9,000 locations. Its parent company Compass Group PLC operates in more than 90 countries and is listed on the London Stock Exchange FTSE-100 Index. More...

Extract from: Adopting 7799: Practical, Achievable Security

The 7799 standards are becoming the most widely recognised security standards in the world. BS ISO/IEC 17799:2000 is a solid framework upon which to build the policies and procedures that support an organisation's information security program, and BS 7799:2 is an outstanding means to measure subsequent security compliance. Despite their quality, however, these standards remain simply an objective framework for the development of information security practices within the organisation. Like all objective standards, they need to be applied to the organisation at the granular level, with substantial expertise, or else they may prove ineffective in meeting corporate information security goals. Ideally, these standards must be supported by a security program in order to provide effective, real world protection to the organisation?s environment. More...