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Attacks using social engineering techniques can be difficult to defend against, as Gunter Ollmann discovers. It’s a fact - security risks are increasing. From the early days of the internet, credit and charge card companies recognized the enormous opportunities presented to them - but they also saw challenges ahead. So you have a mobile workforce, you have invested in laptops, PDAs, mobiles and smartphones and your staff are out there chasing and winning business. The emergence of the internet is a comparatively recent phenomenon. All of a company’s technical assets will hold some amount of proprietary data, and it is a legal requirement that companies dispose of that data permanently before the asset is sold on from the company. As a former police officer, it was driven into me during my formative years as an investigator that every facet of every case had to be prepared with the utmost diligence. "Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots." Sun Tzu, The Art of War Hackers manage to successfully break into systems much more often than you might realise. Wireless PCs and wireless laptops are being increasingly used in both business and the home. One of the most noteworthy IT security developments of 2003 is the convergence between spamming and viral techniques, leading to a much more dangerous threat for email users. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to host a workshop on spam prevention this week.

eTrust Single Sign-On is for the enterprise market and has three components – Policy Server, workstation client, and Policy Manager.

This is a comprehensive and flexible product upon which may be built an equally comprehensive access security model. It is scalable and facilitates the management of both local and remote network access within various environments and, if required, across multiple authentication servers.

Anti-spam company MailFrontier is warning companies that a new phishing technique has surfaced. Traditionally, security administration has focused on enforcement products. Advancement in the use of technology is unfortunately not confined to the law-abiding citizens and organizations of the world. Last October, many of us were shocked to read in newspapers that Procter & Gamble, a leading Fortune 500 firm, settled a dispute with European based Unilever over accusations of blatant corporate espionage - better known as economic warfare. In 1984 William Gibson's epoch-making novel Neuromancer introduced the world to the term cyberpunk (although many would argue that the term was actually coined by science fiction writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois). It seems obvious to me that electronic security took a significant step forward in 2001.