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Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox
Reviews If data security is paramount, the DataTraveler BlackBox is the USB flash drive of choice, despite its relatively high cost.
Tags: NIST, Security, Kingston Technology Corp., USB Flash Drive, USB, Password, Notebook, Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox, FIPS, handheld
Schneier warns of marketers and dancing pigs
Insight newsmaker Security guru Bruce Schneier pokes fun at U.S. National Cyber Security Month and says when it comes to privacy, marketers are scarier than governments or criminals.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Facebook, Computer, Security, NSA, Schneier, Hard Drive Encryption, Information Broker, Security Consideration
Top-end server group comes home to HP
News After a long round trip, HP's high-end server unit may offer clues to the company's integration skills.
Flexible memory developed for chips
News Researchers at U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a flexible memristor, which can be bent or twisted and remain functional.
Tags: Memory, Components, Hewlett-Packard Co., NIST, Electronics, Chip, Memory, polymer, researcher, U.S.
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Science and Technology have thrown doubt on accepted rules, threatening the future of nanoscale transistors.
Tags: Processors, Nanotechnology, NIST, Chip, Flaw, transistor, theory, researcher, scientist, IEEE
DNS resource records still open to malicious redirection
Techguide Attacks against DNS cache integrity are an easy way for criminals to redirect your unsuspecting users to malicious sites. Learn more about how DNS works and what exactly DNS cache poisoning is.
Tags: LANs and WANs, Network security, Domain names, NIST, Security, Domain Name, DNS Server, Entry, IP, IP Address
Researchers cut costs of quantum cryptography
News A method to lower costs and improve the security of quantum cryptography has been developed.
Tags: Security, Cost control, NIST, Quantum Cryptography, Cryptography, theory, researcher, blog, technique, IEEE
Crypto project to lock down Net security
News VeriSign and Icann have joined with two U.S. government agencies to encrypt one of the fundamental Internet protocols.
Tags: Domain names, Network security, Security implementation/standards, NIST, Security, Domain Name, VeriSign Inc., ICANN, U.S. Department of Commerce, Internet User
HP server exec leaves for Linux firm
News Penguin Computing plans to announce Monday that it has hired Pauline Nist, who long led HP's NonStop server group.
Tags: Servers, Linux, Executive recruiting
Competition planned for new crypto standards
News Attack on current standards prompts National Institute of Standards and Technology to look for alternatives.
Tags: Digital signatures
Atomic particles 'teleported'
News Scientists say complex quantum experiment could lead to faster computers that work like magic.
Tags: Components
Paperless e-voting is not secure
News Advisory agency to federal election standards commission dismisses most e-voting machines, but leaves door open for new technology.
NIST endorses Microsoft's Open XML in upcoming vote
News The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard.
Tags: Office suites
Wi-Fi users warned of pirates
News People warned to secure their networks after someone used a neighbor's access to send a pirated movie.
Google dominates in machine translation tests
News The search giant beats out IBM and academia in tests translating articles written in Arabic and Chinese to English.
Tags: Web sites, Web browsers, Search, Web services
