Airport security concerns: Bluetooth, switchblades and -- wireless X-rays?   29 Feb 2008 18:43 GMT
Airport security is obviously a major concern in our country, and I've made some observations that I'd like to share from my recent travels. February and March has turned out to be an insane travelling road show for me. When March completes, I will have spoken...
Source: ZDNet

Air Force: No! Stop! Blogs bad!   29 Feb 2008 18:30 GMT
The Air Force has had it with soldiers getting their information from the unsavory world of blogs. The service's Network Operations Center has instituted widespread filtering of the Web, blocking all sites with the letters b-l-o-g in their URLs and filtering out most other sites that qualify as blogs, Wired...
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Oil field data loss just common theft   29 Feb 2008 16:55 GMT
Sighs of relief can be heard coming from Brazil this week as police arrested four men (port security guards) responsible for heisting some computers that had lots of data from the newly discovered mega-oil-patch off the coast of Brazil. Way back when I was an industry analyst...
Source: ZDNet

Proposed 3Com buyers aim to allay U.S. security concerns (again)   29 Feb 2008 15:26 GMT
Bain Capital and Huawei will resubmit its bid for 3Com to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. in hopes of closing a deal. A $2.2 billion buyout of 3Com has been hung up over concerns that China's Huawei would have access to critical U.S. security...
Source: ZDNet

Opinion: Not where they think you are   29 Feb 2008 08:37 GMT
Whatever Hans Reiser's guilt or innocence, says Jon Espenschied, using mobile-phone usage records as evidence of location is dicey business.

Source: Computerworld

Five basic mistakes of security policy   29 Feb 2008 08:37 GMT
Distilling an appropriate security policy for your company can trip you up in obscure details -- but don't discount the possibility of face-planting on the basics, as Anton Chuvakin explains.

Source: Computerworld

Spam King trial set to start next month   29 Feb 2008 08:37 GMT
Notorious "spam king" Robert Soloway is headed to court again -- and this time, he's facing not only spam but fraud and identity-theft charges.

Source: Computerworld

Software sales reached $3.3 bln in US in 2007   29 Feb 2008 04:21 GMT
US retail sales of non-games software totaled $3.3 bln in 2007, a 15% increase over the $2.9 bln generated in 2006. Thanks in large part to new product introductions from companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Adobe, the most significant increases in revenue were seen in operating system, business, finance...
Source: ZDNet

Here's my problem with many rogue coders, hackers, Open Source cultists   28 Feb 2008 14:32 GMT
I'll call a spade a spade here. Too many hackers, coders, and open source religionists are elitists. They think they know better, and are better, than you and me. But they are not. I've been carrying around this 'tude for a long time,...
Source: ZDNet

U.S.-Mexico 'virtual fence' has huge software holes   28 Feb 2008 14:07 GMT
Software problems with a 28-mile pilot project send Homeland Security officials back to the drawing board--and cause a three-year delay in plans to seal off the southwestern border of the U.S. WASHINGTON--Technical problems have forced the Bush administration to retool a high-tech "virtual fence" along the U.S.-Mexico border and...
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