News tagged with security risks

Wipe technology in self-encrypting 2.5-type hard disk drives launched

Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of the world's first series of Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) equipped with Wipe Technology, Toshiba's proprietary suite of security functions that bring an unsurpassed ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Analysis suggests cancer risk of backscatter airport scanners is low

Calculations by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley estimate that the cancer risk associated with one type of airport security scanners is low based on the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New publication fundamentally changes federal information security risk management

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published the final version of a special publication that can help organizations to more effectively integrate information security risk planning into their mission-critical ...

Technology / Other

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

2 NIST publications recommend organization-wide IT security risk management

Two new draft publications from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide the groundwork for a three-tiered risk-management approach that encompasses computer security risk planning from the highest levels ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New NIST report advises: Securing critical computer systems begins at the beginning

Nothing beats the feeling of starting up a new computer - be it a laptop, desktop or a major, custom-designed computing system. A new system is a blank slate with no worry of botnets, viruses or any other cybersecurity hazards.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Study on the Security of Cloud Computing

Not only does cloud computing help to save money, it also helps to increase IT security: Small and medium sized companies especially can profit from special cloud security solutions and the knowledge advantage of experienced ...

Technology / Other

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Securing biological select agents and toxins will require developing a culture of trust

The most effective way to prevent the deliberate misuse of biological select agents and toxins (BSATs) -- agents housed in laboratories across the U.S. considered to potentially pose a threat to human health -- is to instill ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research: No evidence for 'too big to fail' policies

The U.S. economy would be better served by letting failing firms file for bankruptcy rather than by bailing them out under presumptive federal policies that deem them to be "too big to fail," according to ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Wireless drug control

Electronic implants that dispense medicines automatically or via a wireless medical network are on the horizon. Australian and US researchers warn of the security risks in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of ...

Biology /

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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