Los Alamos lab confirms FBI probe of data breach   27 Oct 2006 13:00 GMT
The FBI is looking into a possible security breach at the Los Alamos National Laboratory that involves three USB thumb drives found by police in the trailer of a one-time subcontractor at the lab.
Source: Computerworld

Five things you'll love about Vista's storage   27 Oct 2006 13:00 GMT
Windows lagged competing platforms in storage management features. The new Vista platform sports an improved file system, native support for hybrid disk drives, volume shrinking, enhanced I/O prioritization and drive encryption features.
Source: Computerworld

Web site offers to 'fix' elections -- for a price   27 Oct 2006 12:17 GMT
How much for that legislator in the window? As the elections near, a new Web site offers "real-time voter correction" for the race of your choice.
Source: Computerworld

Federal biometric smart-card deadline looms   27 Oct 2006 12:17 GMT
Friday's deadline for U.S. agencies to begin issuing "Smart" I.D. cards should find about 80 percent of agencies in compliance. It helps that the directive didn't specify how many cards had to be in play.
Source: Computerworld

Tech presents legal system with 'tremendous curves'   27 Oct 2006 12:17 GMT
A speaker at this week's InfoSecurity Conference in New york characterized the proliferation of technologies such as VoIP, botnets, and malware as presenting extreme challenges to the U.S. legal system.
Source: Computerworld

Is your DBA a spy? Don't fall victim to internal security threats   27 Oct 2006 04:08 GMT
While most risks come from outside, the ones inside the perimeter --purposeful or not -- can be hardest to defend against. Here's how to do it.
Source: Computerworld

Did worm infect Alaska candidates' site?   26 Oct 2006 23:48 GMT
A husband-wife team running in the state's governor's race blame a hacker for infecting their election Web site with a virus.
Source: ZDNet

RFID passports take off   26 Oct 2006 23:07 GMT
Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries required by the U.S. to issue passports with radio tags are doing so.
Source: ZDNet

Linux guru warns on security in open-source code   26 Oct 2006 17:54 GMT
Veteran developer Alan Cox cautions that hackers are trying hard to break open-source code and that many projects are far from secure.
Source: ZDNet

Symantec earnings, outlook come in at low end   26 Oct 2006 16:34 GMT
Security software maker cites disappointing sales in Europe as big weakness in the second quarter.
Source: ZDNet