When disaster recovery's down to you   11 Feb 2008 05:42 GMT
Is disaster recovery strictly IT's problem at your office once the latest catastrophe fades from the headlines? Jon Espenschied suggests you take a closer look at BS 25999 when working through your business continuity issues.

Source: Computerworld

Some Guidelines for Disaster Recovery   11 Feb 2008 05:42 GMT
Disaster recovery shouldn't focus solely on the worst-case scenario.

Source: Computerworld

Adobe PDF exploit infects 'many thousands,' says researcher   10 Feb 2008 14:00 GMT
Attackers have been exploiting a recently-revealed flaw in Adobe Reader since at least Jan. 20, with one security researcher estimating that "many thousands" of computers have been infected so far.

Source: Computerworld

What's Microsoft's Plan B?   09 Feb 2008 23:42 GMT
My ZDNet blogging colleague Larry Dignan asks what Yahoo's Plan B will be, now that it reportedly is turning down Microsoft's $44 acquisition billion bid because it is too low. But I'm wondering about the flip-side of this equation: What is Microsoft's Plan B if it fails to snag Yahoo?...
Source: ZDNet

DRM - in a nutshell   08 Feb 2008 15:31 GMT
For years now I've been trying to define DRM and how commercial companies use it to lock consumers into a buying cycle.  Finally I've found a definition that's just perfect. The definition comes from security guru Bruce Schneier: In my last column, I talked about the...
Source: ZDNet

The diabetes trial failure   08 Feb 2008 14:42 GMT
The "failure" of a major diabetes study has reporters and their sources wringing their hands. This should not be. (The picture is from the WebMD's doctors' site, medicinenet.) Science often makes wrong turns, especially when it's applied in the form of engineering or products....
Source: ZDNet

Soccer league's online shoppers get kicked by security breach   08 Feb 2008 14:00 GMT
The online store of Major League Soccer was hit by a series of SQL injection attacks, compromising the personal data of an unspecified number of shoppers.

Source: Computerworld

Mozilla delivers hefty patch haul for Firefox   08 Feb 2008 05:26 GMT
Mozilla on Friday delivered its Firefox 2.0.0.12 update including patches that fix a Web forgery flaw, browsing history and forward navigation stealing and the directory traversal via chrome, which has been the most visible vulnerability of late. According to the Firefox security advisory, Mozilla filed the following...
Source: ZDNet

Digital crisis: Motion pictures may fade to black   08 Feb 2008 05:22 GMT
A new report out of Hollywood suggests the data explosion could turn into data extinction through the loss of valuable digital content.

Source: Computerworld

RBAC problems wipe out AT&T DSL in California   08 Feb 2008 04:15 GMT
If things weren't bad enough last night with the computer problems I had, things got worse when AT&T decided to do an unannounced maintenance.  This was sort of similar to the massive network outage last year where the network goes down but they don't even bother to tell their own...
Source: ZDNet