Web site exposes Air Force One defenses
Whenever the president travels, security is a prime consideration. Motorcade routes are kept secret, and premature release of information about a presidential trip aboard one of the twin Air Force One planes can result in the Secret Service canceling a vis...
Florida county posts residents" sensitive data on public Web site
APRIL 10, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The Social Security numbers, driver"s license information and bank account details belonging to potentially millions of current and former residents of Florida"s Broward County are available to anyone on the Internet becaus...
Oracle accidentally exposes flaw, exploit
Oracle Corp."s next critical patch update (CPU) is a week away, but customers of the database giant already have a security hole to worry about -- and this one appears to have been accidentally released by the company itself. According to Alexander Kornb...
Registrar"s database said to have exposed data
A database problem with a U.S. domain name registrar exposed sensitive financial and personal information relating to thousands of domain name registrations, a Dutch company said Friday. DiscountDomainRegistry.com, of New York, fixed the problem shortly af...
Compliance, Not Malware, Drives IT Budgets: Merrill Lynch Survey
Regulatory compliance and protecting intellectual property (IP) are among the top reasons driving demand for security products – not phishing, worms, spyware and hack attacks, according to a recent report. Some 50 North American chief information ...
IBM Extends Enhanced Data Security to Consumer Electronics Products ("SecureBlue")
YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., April 10, 2006 -- IBM today announced a new technology designed to greatly increase the security of consumer products, medical devices, defense systems and digital media. Developed by IBM Research and codenamed “SecureBlue&...
A Better Way To Manage Customer Data (IBM"s Data Governance Council)
Messy, redundant, and insecure customer data has companies turning to data governance for a change The handling of customer data is one of the thorniest business issues of the 21st century. If companies aren"t struggling to determine which versions of t...