October 2007 issue

An industry born of necessity
Israel is home to a cluster of IT security vendors, as its military-trained citizens turn national security concerns into a booming export business. Eleanor Dallaway visited the country to find out more

We've been expecting you, Mr Bond
Corporate spies are taking full advantage of IT, and Ron Condon finds that high-tech industrial espionage is often easy to carry out

Double jeopardy
Laws and regulations such as the European Markets in Finance Directive can cause organisations problems, often requiring them to keep records while restricting their abilities to access personal data, says Mick James

Face-off in Oxford
Students are taking to social networking sites in large numbers, but a disciplinary investigation by Oxford University which trawled Facebook for evidence shows how such services can expose private data. SA Mathieson and Mike Simpson investigate

Zero-day, but not zero-risk
August’s Black Hat conference heard that zero-day vulnerabilities can be reverse-engineered. Cath Everett assesses the damage

To boldly make the quantum leap
The technology behind Star Trek’s photo torpedoes could soon have the same effect on those wanting to break cryptography, argues Alan Woodward of Charteris

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