A Guide to Evaluating E-mail Security Solutions   13 Mar 2008 13:00 GMT
(Source: SonicWALL) New e-mail protections are now available to ensure the safety, privacy and security of corporate networks, data and personnel. The increased sophistication, versatility and effectiveness of e-mail security solutions have been paired with improved ease-of- use, providing a transparent, simply managed barrier against spam, phishing and other inbound e-mail-based attacks as well as outbound compliance.

Source: Computerworld

Harvard grad students hit in computer intrusion   13 Mar 2008 08:03 GMT
Though the school's not entirely sure the information was accessed, Harvard's notifying around 10,000 students in its Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that their personal data may have been compromised. And they'll cover credit-monitoring services for around 6,600 of those students as well.

Source: Computerworld

Heart device hack could be a shocker   13 Mar 2008 08:03 GMT
Implantable cardio defibrillators -- technology that thousands of Americans carry around in their bodies -- are susceptible to wireless hacks that could cause the units to zap their hosts with 137 volts straight to the heart.

Source: Computerworld

Password-stealing hackers infect thousands of Web pages   13 Mar 2008 08:03 GMT
Hackers looking to grab passwords to various online games have infected thousands of poorly protected Web pages in an attack similar to that seen last year before the Super Bowl.

Source: Computerworld

UK defense department loses 11,000 military ID cards   13 Mar 2008 08:03 GMT
Over the last two years, over 11,000 military ID cards have gone missing -- lost or stolen -- in the UK, according to information revealed this week.

Source: Computerworld

Govtech newsfeed   13 Mar 2008 03:12 GMT
A few links to govtech stories of interest: Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review (Slashdot) Gates seeks more high-tech visas (AP) FreedomSpeaks lets citizens easily write to Congress by Richard Koman
Source: ZDNet

Skepticism and Mary Jo Foley   12 Mar 2008 16:44 GMT
Mary Jo Foley recently wrote a piece explaining why her Microsoft skepticism is warranted given the "suspicious coincidence" that these moves toward "transparency, standards and interoperability" fell so close to important signposts in Microsoft's tangled road through the legal and regulatory minefield. The much ballyooed interoperability announcement took place close to...
Source: ZDNet

Have a heart (attack): Defibrillators, pacemakers vulnerable to hackers   12 Mar 2008 13:48 GMT
Researchers have discovered that an implantable heart device, a combination of a defibrillator and pacemaker, is vulnerable to hackers. According to a study, authored by researchers at the University of Washington, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard Medical School, hackers could get wireless access to a heart...
Source: ZDNet

Microsoft delivers first update for Mac Office 2008   12 Mar 2008 13:00 GMT
Microsoft has patched its newest version of Office for Mac to fix more than two-dozen problems, including a security snafu that cropped up just days after the suite was launched in January.

Source: Computerworld

Reporters Without Borders launches Online Free Expression Day   12 Mar 2008 13:00 GMT
The organization Reporters Without Borders launched Online Free Expression Day and called on Net users to protest virtually against Internet censorship around the world.

Source: Computerworld