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MacForensicsLab 2.0 – The Complete Forensics Suite for Mac OS X

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

MacForensicsLab is a complete suite of forensics and analysis tools in one cohesive software package. Combining the power of many individual functions into one application in order to provide a single solution for law enforcement professionals and digital forensic investigators. When you need a single tool to perform digital forensics – you need MacForensicsLab from SubRosaSoft.

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NHS IT devolution plan goes into action

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Whitehall officials will start dismantling parts of Connecting for Health next month in a bid to “reinvigorate” the £12.4bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Under the plan, which forms part of an audit by NHS chief executive David Nicholson, some staff, job roles, budgets and responsibilities will be transferred from the agency to local and regional organisations. The rethink means that responsibility for meeting key local and national objectives of the NPfIT will be dispersed to more than 150 senior responsible owners at local and regional health service sites.

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Certification plan aims to close the door on hackers

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Major employers are backing the first qualifications in secure programming as part of drive to reduce software errors that are leaving corporate systems open to attack. The exams, launched this week, are designed to stem a rapid rise in the exploitation of software vulnerabilities by encouraging the use of secure programming techniques. The US Navy, Siemens, systems integrator Tata, Juniper Networks and Oracle are among more than 40 organisations backing the qualifications, developed by IT security research body the Sans Institute.

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Agile – Risk Management LLC

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Agile Risk Management, is committed to advancing information security concepts, technology, and techniques. As such, we have developed the following software tools. ’Nigilant32’ is an incident response tool designed to capture as much information as possible from a running system with the smallest potential impact. Nigilant32 has been developed with Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 in mind, and should work fine with computers running one of those operating systems. Nigilant32 is beta software and may not work in all instances.

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‘Halifax mortgage data stolen’

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

UK high street bank Halifax has admitted stolen documents from one of its employees contained data on 13,000 mortgage customers. The documents were in a briefcase stolen from the locked car of an employee last week and the bank yesterday started writing to affected customers, after first reporting the breach to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the police.

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