eWEEK EDITORS

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) suffers from network security holes that make it vulnerable to saboteurs, according to a report by the General Accounting Office. The GAO said access control lists on the FDICs network could be modified by anyone with access to the network–some 6,300 people, including contractors. Other lapses include inadequate controls on […]

Way back in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a project designed to let people work together by combining their knowledge in a global Web of hypertext documents. That project became, of course, the World Wide Web. From humble beginnings as a WYSIWYG hypertext browser/editor that ran in the NextStep environment, the WWW has changed the world. […]

Former Informix CEO Phillip White was sentenced by a U.S. District Court judge in San Francisco last week to two months in federal prison for securities fraud. White pleaded guilty to one count of signing and filing a false registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July 1997. White, 61, admitted that a […]

Microsoft Corp.s MSN unit has a lot more than just new search and online music services on its new product plate. MSN Vice President Yusuf Mehdi, in a keynote address on Wednesday at Goldman Sachs fifth annual Internet conference in Las Vegas, shed a bit more light on a handful of the next-gen services on […]

A 16-year old Canadian has been arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and charged with computer-related crimes having to do with the Randex worm. The worm spreads through peer to peer networks like LimeWire and KaZaA and installs a backdoor for hackers to use. Read the complete story at Globeandmail.com

The AHA recently sent CEOs of all member hospitals a packet it called a “HIPAA security launch kit.” By April 2005, hospitals must meet HIPAA requirements in five areas: administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, technical safeguards, organizational safeguards, security policies, and procedures and documentation. Though the HIPAA legislation passed in 1996, HIPAA compliance hovers just under […]

Microsoft this week agreed to merge its Caller ID for E-mail anti-spam proposal with another of the leading domain authentication schemes, Sender Policy Framework (SPF). The combined specification will be presented to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body in June. The specification would confirm the senders domain at the message transport (SMTP) level, […]

Business Roundtables Security Task Force last week released a set of principles and an action plan aimed at building a more unified defense against the increasing number of malicious attacks on the global digital network. The principles said market solutions for cybersecurity are preferred over statutory and regulatory mandates. Corporate software buyers may have to […]

Young children are less likely than teenagers to illegally download music, movies and software from the Internet, according to a poll conducted by Harris Interactive Corp. Fourteen percent of children ages eight to 12 said they have downloaded music from the Internet without paying for it, while 66 percent of teenagers have pirated music. Younger […]

The U.S. Treasury Department this week issued a report on “phishing.” Recent phishing e-mails have purportedly come from government agencies, legitimate financial-sector firms, Internet auction sites and electronic payment services. “The report gives consumers even more information on how to detect, prevent and mitigate the effects of the identity theft scheme known as phishing, a […]

Agere Systems Inc. recently announced new hard disk drive integrated circuit technology for mobile phones and other consumer devices. The companys TrueStore RC1100ULP channel helps battery life in 1.0-inch and sub-1.0-inch disk drives. SoC samples featuring the RC1100ULP read-channel are expected to ship in 2005. Read the full press release at Silicon Valley Biz Ink […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. this week announced a network-attached storage (NAS) system designed to consolidate Exchange Server 2003 data on Windows Storage Server 2003-powered NAS systems. Users can backup and store data from file, print and e-mail servers on a single NAS device. For compliance issues related to HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, HP will partner with CommVault Systems […]