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A number of recent studies have highlighted the security concerns over e-voting machines. California's secretary of state has decertified the voting machines of four companies, saying the security of their systems is "too flawed to be widely used." Researchers from the University of California found IT and physical security vulnerabilities in three electronic voting systems as part of a study for the top election official of the nation's most populous state. Delegates at this year’s AusCERT’s Information Security Conference in the Gold Coast will have access to individual keypads in a move to improve audience interaction. A new Hall of Fame, more than 300 vendors and expert advice on the burning issues of the day are certain to attract more visitors than ever. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have warned that chip and Pin machines are not as secure as the banking industry claims. Nominations are now open for the 2008 SC Magazine Awards, which salute the security industry's best products, services and professionals. Democratic lawmakers supportive of privacy and information security reform will soon get the chance to quicken legislation after the GOP on Tuesday lost control of the House of Representatives and likely the Senate, a leading security lobbyist said today. We used to live in an analog world. We played records, radio stations had static interference, we flattened out dollar bills to work in vending machines and we anguished over hanging chads. Sure, everything was converted into bits and bytes in the end, but the world we interacted with was a physical one. Hackers are claiming the ultra-popular auction site eBay will shut down next month in their latest attempt to extract personal information from web users. Tuesday's election had one negative impact on citizens before the first ballot was even cast - a deluge of political spam messages flowing into users' inboxes. As America goes to the polls, many IT security leaders have concerns about electronic voting systems being used across the land. Identity specialist Viisage Technology and biometric technology firm Identix Incorporated announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge in an all stock transaction valued at approximately $770 million. The use of a multi-layer dual firewall topology is relatively new in network security, but it is rapidly gaining in popularity. It was only recently that IM was the preserve of teens and net-savvy companies. But like so many applications that start small, IM has made the leap from cool tool to useful business application. US analyst Gartner suggests that IM "will rival email in terms of both volume and ubiquity." In 2005 alone, it believes half of all companies will be using enterprise-level IM clients. Pen testing and vulnerability assessments are essentials. But how often and when these checks are made varies from one company to the next, as Marcia Savage found out Bournemouth Borough Council in Dorset has rolled out an email encryption system in a move designed to achieve compliance with the UK Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts. Bournemouth Borough Council in Dorset, UK, has rolled out an email encryption system in a move designed to achieve compliance with the UK Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts. Security professionals attending the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas this week left with a lot to think and worry about. An election watchdog group issued a security alert on Thursday claiming Diebold touch-screen voting machines - widely deployed in a number of states to replace traditional paper ballots - are susceptible to hacker attacks that could "incurably compromise" the terminals.