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What’s a pirated song really worth?


January 28, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Databases, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, User behavior, cybercrime, e-commerce, file-sharing

When a judge recently reduced the $1.92 million in damages from a jury verdict against a Minnesota woman accused of illegally sharing 24 songs, music pirates everywhere breathed a small sigh of relief.

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Lessons from Obama: How to waste an IT budget


November 30, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, Communication, Data centers, Databases, Green technology, Software, Special Report

money-and-computers

Here’s the question of the week: Should the U.S. government shell out the $19 billion that’s earmarked for electronic health records (EHR) if computerization doesn’t improve health care quality, reduce costs or boost administrative efficiency?

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Putting off replacements could be risky business


October 20, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, Databases, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Software, storage

Things could get worse for the IT industry, but it’s tough to imagine how.

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Hackers charged in huge ID theft operation


August 18, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Databases, In this week's e-newsletter, Information security, Latest News & Views, cybercrime

Indictments were handed out this week against three hackers who are charged with plundering the servers of some of the nation’s biggest credit card processors. Their haul: the numbers of some 130 million cards.

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Jackson’s death certificate hacked


July 23, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, Databases, In this week's e-newsletter, Information security, Latest News & Views, cybercrime

Is nothing sacred? Where computer systems are concerned, it seems not.

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Mess with IT at your peril


July 21, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, Databases, IT employment, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

It’s the one-year anniversary of the Terry Childs case and it looks like there are still organizations out there that don’t take the threat of rogue admins seriously enough to prevent the problems they can cause.

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Azure pricing: No longer up in the air


July 14, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, Databases, Green technology, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Web 2.0, cloud computing, e-commerce, storage

The folks at Microsoft have unveiled the pricing plans for a new cloud computing scheme, and it’s fair to say the business model is pretty much up in the air.

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Cybercrime big, new target’s pretty small


June 17, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Budgets and spending, Databases, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Web 2.0, Web sites, cybercrime, e-commerce

Computer criminals have a new target in mind. And most targeted victims are completely unprepared. 

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Users who’d steal data if dumped


May 6, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, Databases, IT employment, In this week's e-newsletter, Information security, Latest News & Views, Software, cell phone, cybercrime, mobile technology, smartphones

Desperate times call for desperate measures. When employees are faced with layoffs, they sometimes do things they ordinarily wouldn’t. Such as steal company data.

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Security help for small biz — and it’s free!


April 29, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Posted in: Communication, Databases, In this week's e-newsletter, Information security, Latest News & Views, e-commerce

Big operations generally have big budgets for dealing with big problems. But what’s a SMB to do in the face of rising cybercrime and Internet theft?

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