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Whether you've been hacked or suspect an employee of wrongdoing, knowing how to preserve evidence is crucial. Derek Parkinson reports. Researchers find way to foil disk encryption. Dekart’s approach to encryption is innovative, albeit using accepted standards where appropriate. The company offers a range of useful security-related products and utilities, within which Private Disk plays an important part. A government laptop used by Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez may have been breached during a visit to Bejing last December. We are fans of open-source software and Helix 1.9 falls into this category. Helix has two components, each with its own set of utilities. The first component is the Windows element, which can be started on a booted Windows system by simply inserting the CD into the drive. Forensic Toolkit (FTK) is one of the most full-featured sets of products. It includes a forensic imager utility, a registry viewer facility and the Distributed Network Attack, which aids password recovery with the password recovery toolkit. Researchers have uncovered a number of ways attackers could force a PC to cold boot. Better keep that heating on. Microsoft fixed six vulnerabilities, three of them rated critical, with four patches in its May Patch Tuesday round this week. All were file-format vulnerabilities impacting client-side Windows machines rather than servers. As the Payment Card Industry's data security regulation begins to bite, Barry Mansfield examines its aims and obligations. HSBC has lost a disc containing details of 370,000 of its customers, in an incident which will raise further questions about firms' data security policies. The Secude Secure Notebook has the ability to authenticate the user using two-factor authentication, such as smart cards and USB tokens. The drive encryption product is broken into two pieces — one that provides the boot time authentication, and a second piece that provides the actual hard drive encryption. If James Bond had encryption software he would have the DriveCrypt Plus Pack. This software includes many more features than the other products in this category. Are they all useful to the typical corporate road warrior? Probably not, but they are all cool and definitely have some merit. There are plenty of tools around to make infosec professionals' life easier. But how do you find the right ones? Barry Mansfield reports. Six botnets are generating about 85 percent of all spam, according to security researchers at Marshal's TRACE labs. Mega-D and Srizbi have been trading places recently at the top of the spam menace list. On the day that Microsoft jumped into the burgeoning virtualisation market, VMware -- the pioneer and industry leader in this technology -- has announced a new product that significantly enhances and simplifies securing virtual machines. The public sector's ability to manage data has once again been called into question. Around 65 percent of APAC respondents to a Forrester survey say they back up to disk.
Microsoft claims that a small group led by a recently jailed Taiwanese man was the source of almost all high quality pirated copies of its software up until his arrest in 2004. Large-scale data breaches across both the private and public sectors dominated the news throughout the year. Rob Buckley looks back. A recent survey of 100 IT managers and CIOs from the financial services, health care, retail, manufacturing and government business sectors shows that despite a torrent of bad press on data-security breaches involving FTP (file-transfer protocol), its use is prevalent and growing.