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Proliferating HIPAA complaints and medical record breaches

Proliferating HIPAA complaints and medical record breaches

The number of complaints regarding violations of the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) continue to increase each year in tandem with an increase in breaches of medical records.
Sue May 27 2008 2:06PM Security
Spammers exploit tragedies in China and Burma

Spammers exploit tragedies in China and Burma

Spammers are taking advantage of recent natural disasters to abuse the generosity of others for their own financial gain..
Staff Writers May 26 2008 7:43AM Security
Review: STRSRCH and URL_SRCH

Review: STRSRCH and URL_SRCH

STRSRCH and URL_SRCH are command-line utilities that can search text files for IP addresses, email addresses, URLs and strings. The biggest advantage of these offerings is the speed at which they can process large amounts of data.
Justin Peltier May 22 2008 3:19PM Security
EV SSL and XSS: Mixing apples and oranges

EV SSL and XSS: Mixing apples and oranges

When individuals lack an understanding of the specifics of a technology, it is very easy to make inaccurate conclusions on how any two technologies are related -- if they are related at all
Tim Callan, vice president, SSL product marketing, Ver May 21 2008 11:28AM Security
IDC: HP and EDS - a marriage of convenience?

IDC: HP and EDS - a marriage of convenience?

Do opposites really attract? IDC Australia has taken a hard look at what HP's recent acquisition of EDS for US$13.9billion, really means for the Australian outsourcing market.
Staff Writers May 20 2008 2:56PM Hardware
Zoho opens up for Google and Yahoo users

Zoho opens up for Google and Yahoo users

Zoho, the online productivity and business applications developer has opened up its tools to Google and Yahoo users.
Staff Writers May 15 2008 3:18PM Networking
Sun Microsystems boosts its Fire and Blade systems

Sun Microsystems boosts its Fire and Blade systems

Sun Microsystems has unveiled new Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems powered by AMD Quad-Core Opteron processors.
Staff Writers May 15 2008 3:18PM Networking
iPhone and Leopard take centre stage at WWDC

iPhone and Leopard take centre stage at WWDC

Apple plans to showcase a 3G iPhone and a new Leopard operating system to developers in San Francisco next month..
Shaun Nichols May 15 2008 7:35AM Software
Submarine cable to link Europe, Middle East and India

Submarine cable to link Europe, Middle East and India

A group of 16 global telcos is to build a high-bandwidth submarine cable system to link Europe, the Middle East and India..
Staff Writers May 9 2008 7:39AM Telco/ISP
AMD and Intel fling more legal briefs

AMD and Intel fling more legal briefs

AMD and Intel traded more court filings last week as their ongoing legal dispute in the antitrust case AMD filed in 2005 grinds towards trial next year.
Egan Orion May 7 2008 2:25PM Hardware
Human error and complacency biggest IT security threats

Human error and complacency biggest IT security threats

Human error and complacency remain the biggest threats to an organisation's IT security.
Lilia Guan May 7 2008 11:04AM Security
Microsoft and Novell team up on Linux management

Microsoft and Novell team up on Linux management

Novell is working with Microsoft to develop advanced Linux management platforms that will allow customers to simplify the management of mixed IT environments..
Clement James May 1 2008 8:58AM Software
Boffins research 'fast and slow' light

Boffins research 'fast and slow' light

Scientists have come a step closer to super-fast optical computing thanks to European research into the mysterious properties of "fast and slow" light..
Robert Jaques Apr 26 2008 10:22AM Hardware
Yahoo and Google tout green credentials

Yahoo and Google tout green credentials

Some of the biggest names in technology, including Google and Yahoo, have been talking up their green efforts for Earth Day 2008..
Shaun Nichols Apr 24 2008 7:29AM Hardware
Mobile Linux takes on Microsoft and Symbian

Mobile Linux takes on Microsoft and Symbian

Linux is poised to challenge Microsoft and Symbian in the handset operating system market as issues with framework fragmentation and silicon requirements are alleviated..
Robert Jaques Apr 23 2008 7:29AM Software
Microsoft and Novell push into China

Microsoft and Novell push into China

Microsoft and Novell have announced an "incremental investment" in their interoperability relationship, and have promised to put particular emphasis on the Chinese market..
Robert Jaques Apr 22 2008 7:36AM Software
Craigslist and eBay 'selling military equipment'

Craigslist and eBay 'selling military equipment'

A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said that stolen military items are being sold on sites like eBay and Craigslist..
Iain Thomson Apr 15 2008 3:02PM Software
IBM proposes the death of flash memory and hard drives

IBM proposes the death of flash memory and hard drives

IBM’s Almaden Laboratory has been outlining a new form of memory that it says will replace both flash memory storage and platter-based hard drives..
Iain Thomson Apr 14 2008 7:35AM Storage
Underworld economy runs on bots and spam

Underworld economy runs on bots and spam

The world of cybercrime is thriving on spam and the means of distributing it, say security experts..
Shaun Nichols Apr 11 2008 7:52AM Security
Global chip and electronics sales slump

Global chip and electronics sales slump

Global semiconductor and electronic equipment suppliers are feeling the pressure of the economic downturn with many already facing slowing demand in 2008, new research reveals..
Robert Jaques Apr 10 2008 7:31AM Hardware

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