Any organization interested in securing data should take seriously the warning from Panda Security that one little device could be the sharpest tool in cyberthieves’ arsenal.
Tags: flash drives, malware, Panda Security, study, worms
The government’s attempting to drive home a new and important message to American companies: Cybercrime’s a big business expense and IT needs both organizational and resource support to fight it.
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Tags: ANSI, budget, CFO, cost, cybersecurity, publication, security breach
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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Tags: file-sharing, fine, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, Joel Tenenbaum, jury verdict, music
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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Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, doctors, electronic health records, healthcare, hospitals, Software
Things could get worse for the IT industry, but it’s tough to imagine how.
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Tags: Gartner, Hardware, IT spending, servers
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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Tags: credit cards, Department of Justice, hackers, stolen
Is nothing sacred? Where computer systems are concerned, it seems not.
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Tags: accessed, death certificate, hacked, improperly, Michael Jackson, unauthorized
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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Tags: employees, hacking, IT, Terry Childs, vandalsim, workers
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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Tags: Azure, cloud computing, lauinch, Microsoft, platform, pricing
Computer criminals have a new target in mind. And most targeted victims are completely unprepared.
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Tags: Canadian Chamber of Commerce, cybercrime, mid-size business, small business, survey, target
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