Panel Advises OU to Rehire Fired IT Execs   16 Oct 2006 04:29 GMT
Ohio University’s grievance committee is recommending that two top IT managers who were fired following the discovery of a series of data breaches be rehired by the school.
Source: Computerworld

Spread Your Info Around ...   16 Oct 2006 04:29 GMT
Mark Hall finds an open-source software vendor who says the best way to secure important files is to break them up and spread the data around the Web. Seriously.
Source: Computerworld

News Briefs   16 Oct 2006 04:29 GMT
Short IT news items.
Source: Computerworld

Microsoft Releases Record Number of Security Fixes   16 Oct 2006 04:29 GMT
Microsoft issued patches last week to plug 26 security holes, the most it has had to fix in a single month. At least six are already being exploited or have had proof-of-concept exploit code written for them.
Source: Computerworld

Alaska Dems Battle State Over E-voting   16 Oct 2006 04:29 GMT
The Alaska Democratic Party says that audit logs from the November 2004 general election show that changes were made to the voting database after the votes were tallied. The party gained access to the logs after a long battle with the state.
Source: Computerworld

New RFID tech would track airport passengers   13 Oct 2006 19:24 GMT
RFID tags would be issued to passengers at check-in to track their movements before departure.
Source: ZDNet

Police blotter: Prosecutors want reporters' hard drives   13 Oct 2006 18:12 GMT
Pennsylvania's attorney general demands newspaper reporters' hard drives as part of a grand-jury investigation.
Source: ZDNet

Microsoft security chief Fathi moves along   13 Oct 2006 13:00 GMT
The reign of Microsot security czar Ben Fahti turned out to be a brief seven months. Fahti will shift to heading up development of the core components of the Windows operating system. His Security Technology unit will be absorbed by the company's Trustworthy Computing group.
Source: Computerworld

British ISP fires back at spammers   13 Oct 2006 13:00 GMT
BT, the large British ISP, is undertaking an aggressive new campaign to rid itself of spammers and to help recover user machines that have covertly joined the zombie botnet legions.
Source: Computerworld

Vista's DRM could bedevil antivirus packages   13 Oct 2006 13:00 GMT
Microsoft's push for digital rights management in Vista could spell disaster for antivirus programs, as malware writers use the "protected processes" feature to avoid removal.
Source: Computerworld