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Thursday, July 26, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: Insecure about security questions?

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

* Insecure about security questions?
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* A security policy conundrum

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INSECURE ABOUT SECURITY QUESTIONS?

Security: Just how effective are those multiple security questions posed
by your financial institution? Ed Foster lays it on the line in today's
Gripe Line: "Are financial institutions only covering their own behinds
by forcing their customers to jump through additional layers of security
checks?" In the opinion of one reader, "If the security gets so
complicated that the rightful users have to write down their log in
information, or make the questions simple enough to remember, have we
really increased security?" Get the full story and weigh in with your
own opinion here. Green IT: Will energy-efficiency be the... ...

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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST

SugarCRM adopts GNU GPLv3, ConnectU's founders sue Facebook, Apple
reports record-high Mac sales, a hacker posts details of a Firefox flaw,
and more LISTEN!... ...

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A SECURITY POLICY CONUNDRUM

Security: A particularly sticky dilemma facing enterprises is what stance
to take on personal e-mail accounts and whether to shut down access to
all Web e-mail interfaces to non-company mail accounts. As Bob Lewis
writes in today's Advice Line, "Failing to enforce the [access shutdown]
policy subjects the company and its customers to liabilities. But
enforcing it is terribly difficult because the system is so difficult to
use." For the full discussion, see here. In the news: Intel claims an
optics breakthrough that could enable chips with speeds up to 40Gbps.
The new laser modulator technology could be capable of... ...

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http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=18446B5:20920CD98AAF82DD807D682F14CC81F0EFF29049075316B4

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