Report: E-voting firms in hostile-takeover tussle   10 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
A takeover of troubled Sequoia Voting Systems by a smaller competitor would create the e-voting industry's second-largest player and shuffle the legal deck for electronic voting. But Sequoia -- or its lawyers, anyway -- won't go quietly.

Source: Computerworld

Three different hackers found 'Pwn To Own' bug   10 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
A Flash vulnerability used to hijack a Windows Vista laptop at last month's "PWN To OWN" hacker challenge was independently found by two other researchers, one who first noted it almost five months ago.

Source: Computerworld

Planning a company social network? Don't forget privacy issues   10 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
Jay Cline believes corporations need to undergo a rigorous privacy risk assessment before jumping onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon.

Source: Computerworld

MGM Grand's IT green field: RFID meets alcohol; predictive modeling; bandwidth galore   10 Apr 2008 12:34 GMT
Very few technology executives ever get a green field to play with. MGM Grand CIO Tom Peck has an $8 billion green field--actually massive construction project dubbed CityCenter--right in the middle of the Las Vegas strip. Peck was speaking at the Gartner Emerging Technologies Conference in Las...
Source: ZDNet

Microhoo careens toward closure: Assessing the moving parts   10 Apr 2008 12:02 GMT
The Microsoft-Yahoo saga appears to be heading toward closure, but there are multiple loose ends to tie up. Microsoft has set the pace with a three week deadline--quickly becoming two weeks--for Yahoo to join negotiations, but Jerry Yang and company are proving that they have more strategic alternatives in their...
Source: ZDNet

DHS offers first take on Cyber Storm exercise   10 Apr 2008 09:36 GMT
An RSA panel on Wednesday offered insight into the recent Cyber Storm II, as well as a moment of oversharing.

Source: Computerworld

Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle   09 Apr 2008 23:08 GMT
Within minutes of Yahoo announcing it was going to do an AdSense for Search deal with Google, Microsoft began firing the antitrust warning shots. It took about 15 minutes after I saw the Yahoo press release before I got an e-mail from the Microsoft camp reminding me...
Source: ZDNet

IPhone 2.0 beta gets hands-on test at major financial firm   09 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
Despite concerns about inadequate security, a large financial company will test the iPhone 2.0 beta to determine whether it's appropriate for internal users.

Source: Computerworld

Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers   09 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
A botnet researcher today released a census of bots at the RSA Conference showing how the top 11 malware networks can spew up to 100 billion spam messages a day.

Source: Computerworld

Adobe patches 'PWN To OWN' bug in Flash Player   09 Apr 2008 13:00 GMT
Adobe's update to Flash Player patched seven vulnerabilities, including several that could be used by attackers to hijack machines running the flawed software.

Source: Computerworld