January 28, 2010 by Valerie HelmbreckWhen 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: file-sharing, fine, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Joel Tenenbaum, jury verdict, music
November 30, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
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? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, doctors, electronic health records, healthcare, hospitals, Software
October 20, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckThings could get worse for the IT industry, but it’s tough to imagine how. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Gartner, Hardware, IT spending, servers
August 18, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckIndictments 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: credit cards, Department of Justice, hackers, stolen
July 23, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck July 21, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckIt’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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: employees, hacking, IT, Terry Childs, vandalsim, workers
July 14, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckThe 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Azure, cloud computing, lauinch, Microsoft, platform, pricing
June 17, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckComputer criminals have a new target in mind. And most targeted victims are completely unprepared. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Canadian Chamber of Commerce, cybercrime, mid-size business, small business, survey, target
May 6, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckDesperate times call for desperate measures. When employees are faced with layoffs, they sometimes do things they ordinarily wouldn’t. Such as steal company data. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Cyber-Ark, data, layoffs, steal, theft
April 29, 2009 by Valerie HelmbreckBig 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? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cybersecurity, Federal Trade Commission, hacking, online, protection, theft
