Ex-IT employee sues Providence Health for wrongful termination   07 Sep 2007 13:00 GMT
A one-time IT worker at a Portland, Ore. health care agency who was fired after a data breach in late 2005 has filed suit against the organization saying he was wrongfully terminated.

Source: Computerworld

Judge: National security letter provision is unconstitutional   07 Sep 2007 01:47 GMT
Congress recently revised the USA Patriot Act to allow the FBI to use "national security letters" to compel companies - including Internet service providers and telecom companies - to produce customer records -- and forbid them from telling customers or anyone else about it. The law also severely limited the...
Source: ZDNet

Apple plugs gaping iTunes hole, doesn't tell everyone   06 Sep 2007 16:43 GMT
Apple today shipped an iTunes software refresh to add support for all its shiny new toys but, unless you're following security announcements closely, you'd never know that iTunes 7.4 contains a fix for a pretty nasty code execution vulnerability. Here's what Mac users see: ...
Source: ZDNet

Coviello: EMC develops security for VMware software   06 Sep 2007 16:04 GMT
RSA president says his division of data storage giant is working on products for virtualization software of recent IPO standout. EMC is working on security products that would work with VMware software, EMC Executive Vice President Arthur Coviello said Thursday. Coviello, who is president of EMC's RSA security business, said...
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Singapore Exchange hit by another computer problem   06 Sep 2007 04:38 GMT
The latest bug is the fifth systems-related problem so far this year.

Source: Computerworld

House to consider e-voting reform bill   05 Sep 2007 13:00 GMT
A bill that could come up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week would require that all e-voting machines used in the November 2008 U.S. elections be accompanied by a voter-verified paper ballot.

Source: Computerworld

Virtualization users get vendor-neutral security guide   05 Sep 2007 13:00 GMT
The Center for Internet Security has published a 30-page document that includes a set of vendor-neutral guidelines for securely configuring virtual servers.

Source: Computerworld

Critical bugs plague QuickBooks' online service, warns US-CERT   05 Sep 2007 13:00 GMT
Users of the popular QuickBooks small business accounting software run the risk of losing data and control of their PCs to hackers, according to an advisory

Source: Computerworld

The 8 most dangerous consumer technologies   05 Sep 2007 04:28 GMT
This is a look at eight of the most dangerous consumer gadgets and services that threaten IT security and infrastructure. The responses from companies to these technologies range from banning and blocking to monitoring employee activities with sophisticated tracking software.

Source: Computerworld

Gartner: Expect an enterprise iPhone   04 Sep 2007 16:47 GMT
Analyst firm suggests that Apple might add enterprise devices or applications to make phone more adaptable, secure. Apple might start making enterprise-class iPhones or incorporate more enterprise-friendly features into existing models, a Gartner analyst has predicted. Gartner previously dismissed the idea of iPhones becoming business tools, but the analyst...
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