Daon Led Team to Provide Digital Identity Solution for United States Cyber Security Initiative

Daon Led Team to Provide Digital Identity Solution for United States Cyber Security Initiative


Daon Led Team to Provide Digital Identity Solution for United States Cyber Security Initiative

Posted: 26 Sep 2012 06:37 AM PDT

Daon, a leading provider of identity management and authentication solutions worldwide, and its team including Purdue University, AARP, PayPal and the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE), awarded grant for U.S. National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Pilots More information »

What Can I Do if My iPod Touch Went Through the Washer?

What Can I Do if My iPod Touch Went Through the Washer?


What Can I Do if My iPod Touch Went Through the Washer?

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Just because your iPod Touch went through the washer does not necessarily mean that all hope is lost. Find out what you can do if your iPod Touch went through the washer with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

How to Delete a City on Weather From an iPod Touch

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The iPod Touch includes a native weather application that allows you to always keep track of the weather in the cities you choose. Delete a city on the "Weather" application from an iPod Touch with help from a technology expert in this free video cli...

How to Add Mail.Com to the iPod Touch

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The iPod Touch includes a native mail application that allows you to send and receive e-mails on the go. Add Mail.com to the iPod Touch with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

How to Play an iPod Touch Through a Tape Deck

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Playing an iPod Touch through a tape deck only requires the use of one very particular device. Play an iPod Touch through a tape deck with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

How Do You Fix Your iPod Touch if You Jump Into a Pool With It?

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The iPod Touch from Apple and water are two mortal enemies that should not meet. Find out how to fix your iPod Touch if you jump into a pool with it with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

Effects of iPod Popularity

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The popularity of the iPod has had a number of interesting effects on our society. Learn about the effects of iPod popularity with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

How to Combine Pictures on an iPod Touch

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Combining pictures on an iPod Touch is something you can do to make a nice panorama image. Combine pictures on an iPod Touch with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

Sending to Blogger From the iPod Touch

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A very particular iPod Touch application allows you to actually update your Blogger site while on the go. Learn about sending to Blogger from the iPod Touch with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

How to Customize the Menu Bar on the iPod Touch

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Customizing the menu bar on the iPod is a great way to put your own personal stamp on your device. Customize the menu bar on the iPod Touch with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

How to Lock Internet Browsing on an iPod Touch

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Locking Internet browsing on an iPod Touch is something you can do through the general "Settings" application. Lock Internet browsing on an iPod Touch with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.

How to Make the Description Font Smaller in Blogger

How to Make the Description Font Smaller in Blogger


How to Make the Description Font Smaller in Blogger

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Blogger allows you to make the description font on your site smaller than the rest of the fonts. Make the description font smaller in Blogger with help from a well-versed app developer in this free video clip.

How to Open NetBeans From a Terminal

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Opening NetBeans from a terminal window requires you to know how to use a few basic commands. Open NetBeans from a terminal window with help from a well-versed app developer in this free video clip.

How to Get Rid of a Manga Screentone

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A Manga screen tone is a series of little dots of black and white that are next to each other in an image. Get rid of a Manga screen tone with help from a graduate of Art Instruction Schools in this free video clip.

How to Repot Sage

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You can re-pot sage in any plastic nursery pot that you happen to have. Find out how to re-pot sage with help from a small space garden designer in this free video clip.

How to Pollinate Parsley

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Parsley actually pollinates pretty well on its own, but there's no rule that says you can't help it along. Find out how to pollinate parsley with help from a small space garden designer in this free video clip.

Germinating Parsley

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Germinating parsley requires you to follow a few basic, easy to manage steps. Find out about germinating parsley with help from a small space garden designer in this free video clip.

How to Draw Two Pinkies Connected Together

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Drawing two pinkies connected together is a great way to get some practice drawing the intricacies of the human hand. Draw two pinkies connected together with help from an accomplished artist in this free video clip.

How to Download Online Audio Lectures Onto Your iPod

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Many different audio lectures are available in the iTunes Store for you to download. Learn how to download online audio lectures onto your iPod Touch with help from a tech expert in this free video clip.

Uploading Notes From the iPod Touch

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You can upload notes from your iPod Touch to your computer in just a few quick steps. Learn about uploading notes from the iPod Touch with help from a tech expert in this free video clip.

How to Do Auto Slideshow in iPod Touch

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An auto slideshow on the iPod Touch is a great way to experience all your photos. Learn how to do an auto slideshow on the iPod Touch with help from a tech expert in this free video clip.

The various spam campaigns leading to Blackhole

The various spam campaigns leading to Blackhole


The various spam campaigns leading to Blackhole

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 04:11 AM PDT

At any given time, there is a considerable number of email spam campaigns that ultimately lead users to pages hosting exploit kits - more often then not the extremely popular Blackhole exploit kit. ...

Android malware threats analysis

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:17 AM PDT

Bitdefender released its August 2012 Android malware threats report. While in August the percentage of adware-bundled apps dropped to 55.15 per cent, from July's 77.34 per cent, June kick-started what...

Best practices for mobile software developers

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:17 AM PDT

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), a global, open industry standards body providing management of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), PINTransaction Security (PTS) r...

Worldwide security infrastructure market will grow 8.4%

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:17 AM PDT

While the global economic slowdown has been putting pressure on IT budgets, security is expected to remain a priority through 2016, according to Gartner. Worldwide spending on security is expected ...

Beware of FIFA World Cup-themed phishing attempts

Posted: 14 Sep 2012 02:37 AM PDT

For scammers, any lure that has the ability to capture the attention of a great number of users is good, and popular sport events on an international level are a prime example of this. The next FIF...

Messaging security platform for mobile network operators

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 11:31 PM PDT

Cloudmark announced Cloudmark Mobile Platform 3.0, a solution that provides real-time visibility and control of mobile messaging threats originating from internal or external networks and delivers the...

RSA unifies identity and access management

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 11:30 PM PDT

RSA announced new solutions within its Identity and Access Management (IAM) suite designed to address security challenges that require new ways to manage and protect the growing number of users and de...

Mobile device data visualization for field investigators

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 11:29 PM PDT

Cellebrite introduced UFED Link Analysis, a new product that allows field investigators to visualize key relationships between suspects and identify important behavior by analyzing data from multiple ...

iPhone 5 release brings out email scammers

iPhone 5 release brings out email scammers


iPhone 5 release brings out email scammers

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:31 AM PDT

Apple's long awaited release of iPhone 5 has provided cyber crooks with a perfect opportunity to scam users. Even before yesterday's official presentation of the new device, a mass mailing campaign...

Microsoft's study into unsecure supply chains leads to botnet disruption

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:03 AM PDT

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has disrupted the functioning of yet another botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain which was also hosting over 500 different strains of malware and has been linked...

Blackhole 2.0 is out with new exploits and same price

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 06:42 AM PDT

A new version of BlackHole, one of the most popular exploit kits out there, has been made available by its creator, who has supposedly rewritten it from scratch. BlackHole 2.0 brings many improve...

Five things that the private cloud is not

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 02:18 AM PDT

Ongoing hype around private cloud computing is creating misperceptions about private cloud, according to Gartner, Inc. To help reduce the hype and identify the real value of private cloud computing fo...

Cisco delivers new security solutions

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:35 AM PDT

Cisco introduced a set of security solutions designed to fortify data centers against the threats they face in moving toward more consolidated and virtualized environments, while also enabling busines...

Wave Endpoint Monitor detects anomalous behavior

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:35 AM PDT

Wave Systems announced Wave Endpoint Monitor (WEM), a solution that detects malware by leveraging capabilities of an industry standard security chip onboard the PC. WEM provides increased visibilit...

Structured method to data breach analysis and response

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:35 AM PDT

Data breaches are growing in frequency and magnitude, and have a tremendous financial, legal, operational and reputational impact to the breached organization, whether it's a financial institution, a ...

Trend Micro expands consumer mobile portfolio

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Trend Micro expanded its consumer mobile offerings to secure, enhance and simplify people's mobile lives. The new release of Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition for Android provides the mo...

Web security client for OS X

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Perimeter E-Security announced their cloud-based SaaS Web Security solution now supports OS X. The solution allows organizations to enforce acceptable use policies, reduce security risks and curb abus...

Cloud-based content management apps for the life sciences industry

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Veeva Systems announced Vault Enterprise, a cloud-based suite of content management applications developed specifically for the global life sciences industry. Now, life sciences companies can rep...

4K LCD TV output to outstrip OLED production

4K LCD TV output to outstrip OLED production


4K LCD TV output to outstrip OLED production

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT

Smart picture tech too late to market?

An interesting snippet here from market watcher NPD DisplaySearch: the momentum behind 4K x 2K TVs is rather greater than that behind large OLED sets.…

HGST floats helium for low power, MASSIVE capacity HDDs

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:28 PM PDT

Up to seven platters in one drive

A new hard drive technology from HGST promises to improve drive performance in virtually every category, the company says – including capacity, power, cooling, and storage density – all because the drives are filled with helium instead of air.…

Intel to take felon-foiling tech to phones, slates

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:11 PM PDT

Lock up your datas

IDF 2012  Intel has confirmed that it will bring its Anti-theft Technology (AT), currently being pitched at Ultrabooks, to Atom-based smartphones and tablets.…

Microsoft keeps Win Phone 8 under hype-boosting wraps

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:51 PM PDT

'Not all features have been announced'

The reason Microsoft isn't sharing more information about Windows Phone 8 with developers is because it doesn't want to let the cat out of the bag regarding the features of its new smartphone OS, the company says.…

Nintendo Wii U launch and pricing disclosed

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Two models inbound

Nintendo today officially revealed Wii U release dates, foreign pricing structures and launch titles.…

Intel builds 'can't be built' working digital RF transceiver chip

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 10:59 AM PDT

Analog out as radios enter SOCs

IDF 2012  Intel has developed a truly digital radio chip, a part that replaces the analog elements in today's radio frequency transmission and reception circuitry with digital equivalents.…

Blackhole 2: Crimeware kit gets stealthier, Windows 8 support

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 10:03 AM PDT

Malware-flinging tool to target mobiles too

Cybercrooks have unveiled a new version of the Blackhole exploit kit. Version 2 of Blackhole is expressly designed to better avoid security defences. Support for Windows 8 and mobile devices is another key feature, a sign of the changing target platforms for malware-based cyberscams.…

'Google strangled Acer phone using Alibaba Android rival at birth'

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 09:20 AM PDT

Cancelled launch event leaves journos milling

Google has reportedly forced Acer to cancel the launch of a phone that used an Android rival as its operating system.…

iPhone 5 adaptors goldrush begins

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 09:15 AM PDT

Conversion kit manufacturing mother lode

As Apple's iPhone 5 packs an all-new Nano Sim, those with two handsets will probably need a fresh Sim card adaptor. These have already hit the market, of course.…

Smartphone sales to new users 'have peaked'

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:43 AM PDT

It's an upgrade business from here on

The smartphone market will establish its maturity this year: 2012 will be the last time the shipment of handsets to new users grows.…

IT chiefs' purses drained, security budget still safe - report

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:33 AM PDT

CIO study finds spending maintained or rising, despite recession

Security looks set to be one part of companies' IT budgets that will be comparatively safeguarded in the recession, if the beancounters at Gartner are to be believed.…

Microsoft seizes Chinese dot-org to kill Nitol bot army

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:01 AM PDT

Takedown after infected new computers sold to victims

Microsoft has disrupted the emerging Nitol botnet - and more than 500 additional strains of malware - by taking control of a rogue dot-org website. The takedown is the latest in Microsoft's war against armies of hacker-controlled PCs.…

Who's afraid of Windows 8? Trio leads Microsoft migration pack

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 07:38 AM PDT

Internet Explorer a hurdle for most, says consultant

Windows 8 isn't ideal for many big businesses and government users. In fact, the majority of operations running tens of thousands of PCs are only now replacing Windows XP with Windows 7 at any meaningful scale – despite Microsoft's claims to the contrary. But a few brave businesses are planning on jumping into touch and swipe with Windows 8 in the next 12 months.…

VCs snaffle £200m of UK taxpayer gold ... to bet on high-risk biz

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 07:03 AM PDT

All systems are BONG!

The UK government has showered venture capitalists with £200m of taxpayers' money for high-risk investments, the science and universities minister David Willetts told MPs today.…

UK govt to KILL OFF Directgov within weeks

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 06:32 AM PDT

Replacement GOV.UK nearly ready for showtime

New Labour's Directgov is about to be tossed into the rubbish bin, after it was revealed today that Britain's public services website would be replaced by the Cabinet Office's single government domain on 17 October.…

New monkey species with massive blue arse found in Africa

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 05:58 AM PDT

Possibly record-breaking buttocks stun boffinry world

A species of monkey previously unknown to science has been discovered in Africa: and boffins say that it has an "extensive" bright blue bottom which rivals that of the largest and most colourful known monkeys on Earth.…

Ding dong, the Ping is dead! Apple brings in Facebook for iTunes

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 05:22 AM PDT

Whether you Like it or not... bitch

Apple has quietly done away with Ping, its music-based social network in iTunes. The move came as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at the iPhone 5 launch last night, and announced all the ways his website will integrate with the latest version of Apple's music'n'vids software.…

Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Stuff climate change, this is serious

Doomwatchers are painting an apocalyptic picture of a world where weeping humanity is reduced to scraping meagre nourishment from mash without bangers, hole without toad, scratchings without pork and, chillingly, sarnies without bacon.…

RIP Howard Strowman: The stock doctor

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:41 AM PDT

Industry, friends and family mourn IT channel hero

Obituary  The career and life of Howard Strowman, who died in a motorbike accident this weekend, mirrored the ever-changing fortunes of the UK's high-tech sector.…

Ten... iPhone 5 challengers

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:24 AM PDT

Smart alternatives on price and performance

Product Round-up  It's that time of year again when the Autumn leaves begin to fall and a young man's thoughts turn to a shiny new iPhone. Or perhaps, this year, something running Windows Phone 8? Redmond's new baby is also just about to be thrust mewling and puking 'puting into the world and thus anyone shackled to a recently inked two year Windows Phone 7 contract will be feeling truly sick.…

Cambridge boffins: Chip-and-PIN cards CAN be cloned – here's how

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:02 AM PDT

Chip and skim

Boffins at Cambridge University have uncovered shortcomings in ATM security that might be abused to create a mechanism to clone chip-and-PIN cards.…

Who cares about Big Data

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 04:01 AM PDT

What do you think

Tech Panel  "Big Data" today clearly rules the web pages as market makers promote the topic at the drop of a hat. But with so much effort, and money, being spent promoting BD, is anyone actually doing anything in everyday businesses to exploit this loosely grouped family of technologies?…

Journo bung probe cops cuff armed-forces bloke and wife

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:45 AM PDT

Suspects quizzed by police after 6am swoop

Met cops investigating allegations of corrupt payments to police and public officials arrested two suspects in Surrey this morning.…

Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:20 AM PDT

The Lightning seeds

First look  Last night in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cook presented his third keynote in fine, relaxed form. There were announcements about iTunes, a longer iPod nano and colourful iPod touch models. But the night belonged to the iPhone, not to be dubbed the new iPhone, but the iPhone 5.…

EE screams UK iPhone 4G exclusive, rest of pack sobs quietly

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 03:04 AM PDT

O2, Vodafone unable to join Apple's party

Only Everything Everywhere will be able to offer islands of 4G connectivity to the 4G-capable iPhone 5 when it arrives in the UK.…

Yahoo! to! guzzle! £4.7bn! in! Alibaba! stake! sale! 'next! week!'

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 02:41 AM PDT

Troubled web biz needs cash for spending spree

Chinese internet giant Alibaba is set to get back half of Yahoo!'s 40 per cent stake in the company for a whopping $7.6bn (£4.7bn) outlay, as the two firms near the end of their bumpy relationship.…

Apple: Thanks for the iPhone 5s, China, now get to the BACK of the queue

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 02:18 AM PDT

Hong Kong braces for Chinese fanboi invasion

Chinese fanbois will have to rely on grey market imports and dubious online sellers yet again as their country was left off Apple's list of nations to get the new iPhone 5 next week.…

Hate the Windows 8 touch UI? Try Kinect-like finger shaking instead

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 02:00 AM PDT

Game console tech to stop punters fondling the screen

Microsoft is pushing hard to promote Windows 8: its first operating system to let you point, swipe and prod your way through desktop applications and actions - quite possibly without the need for a touchscreen or mouse, thanks to gesture-sensing tech.…

Agility without anxiety

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:56 AM PDT

Does deliver early, deliver often equal deliver badly?

Some Reg readers think so. This is what a few of you tell us about agile development: "Often of a lower standard and the system will inevitably be less reliable". "If you don't have good people, you're screwed". "It leads to several wheels being reinvented in disparate ways".…

Prof casts doubt on Stuxnet's accidental 'great escape' theory

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:32 AM PDT

How DID the super-weapon flee Iran's nuke plant?

Analysis  An expert has challenged a top theory on how the infamous Stuxnet worm, best known for knackering Iranian lab equipment, somehow escaped into the wild.…

Osborne hands £80m tax break to punters drilling in 'old' oil, gas fields

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 01:03 AM PDT

Brown Field Allowance will 'repair damage' from 2011 rise – energy law expert

A new tax break for operators of older "brown field" oil and gas fields in the North Sea shows that the government understands their continuing importance to the wider economy, an energy expert has said.…

NHS eye hospital embiggens in-house open source system

Posted: 13 Sep 2012 12:28 AM PDT

What's that? An e-patient record system that works?

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has said that it has added three new modules for prescribing, operations notes and correspondence to OpenEyes, its open source e-patient record system.…

Foxconn to investigate iPhone 5 factory woes

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 08:40 PM PDT

Undercover hack claims filthy conditions, bullying

Foxconn, the Chinese contract manufacturer, has admitted it's "not perfect" and promised to investigate conditions at its Tai Yuan plant after an undercover exposé by an undercover reporter revealed filthy dorms and bullying by managers on the iPhone 5 production line.…

One more try: Metro apps are now 'Windows Store' apps

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 06:20 PM PDT

Microsoft really means it this time

Another week, another chapter in what must be one of the worst branding and marketing disasters in the history of computing: what to call the blocky, touch-centric apps designed for the new Windows 8 Start Screen, formerly known as Metro-style apps.…

Intel backs 'overhyped' HTML5 for cross-platform app dev

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:18 PM PDT

Resistance is futile

IDF 2012  HTML5 is overhyped, slow, and insecure, says Intel senior VP of software and services Renée James – but Chipzilla thinks it's the future of software development anyway.…

Congress report warns: drones will track faces from the sky

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 05:08 PM PDT

I am the eye in the sky, looking at you

With the FAA working on rules to integrate drones into airspace safety by 2015, the US government's Congressional Research Service has warned of gaps in how American courts might treat the use of drones.…

<i>Reg</i> hack runs Windows 8 on 82-inch touchscreen

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:37 PM PDT

Size matters

TechEd Australia  Back in July, Microsoft acquired a company called Perceptive Pixel which makes 82-inch capacitative multi-touch screens.…

ESA preps space junk radar

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:30 PM PDT

Contracts signed for test platforms

The European Space Agency has announced €4 million in funding to build a demonstrator of a radar system to detect space junk before it puts operational equipment at risk.…

AMD aims at big data crunchers with SeaMicro SM15000

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:28 PM PDT

'Petabytes are everywhere'

Earlier this week, ahead of the kickoff of the Intel Developer Forum, cheeky AMD launched its next generation of microservers sporting both Intel and AMD chips and a revamped SM15000 chassis that links storage arrays directly into the system "Freedom" interconnect fabric at the heart of the SeaMicro system it acquired earlier this year.…

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 launch spreads desktop app love

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 04:00 PM PDT

Free tools for C++, C#, VB devs now available

As expected, Microsoft officially launched the latest iteration of its developer tools on Wednesday, including Visual Studio 2012, .Net 4.5, and the surprise debut of a new member of Redmond's Express family of free IDEs, this one for building Windows desktop applications.…

Apple Lightning adaptors reveal limitations

Posted: 12 Sep 2012 03:43 PM PDT

Missing the bus?

Apple has introduced a Micro USB adaptor for its new Lightning dock connector. Speed freaks will be disappointed to hear it's a USB 2.0 connector.…