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Oasis forms ODF committee
News The body that maintains the OpenDocument Format has formed a committee to promote interoperability. Representatives include IBM, Oracle and Google.
Tags: Business applications, Open source, Office suites, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., OpenDocument Format, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, software, ISO
Schneier warns of marketers and dancing pigs
Insight newsmaker Security guru Bruce Schneier pokes fun at U.S. National Cyber Security Month and says when it comes to privacy, marketers are scarier than governments or criminals.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Facebook, Computer, Security, Schneier, Hard Drive Encryption, Information Broker, Security Consideration, network
Vendors: Ample tests to nip tainted goods
News Major hardware manufacturers say there are enough processes in place to prevent malware-infected equipment from being shipped to customers.
Tags: Hardware, Network security, Security Management, Malware, Manufacturing, Seagate Technology LLC, Spokesperson, Singapore, removable storage, virus
US Defense Department to partially lift flash drive ban
News Authorized individuals will be able to use USB thumb drives that are owned by the government and necessary for mission-critical functions, U.S. Navy CIO says.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, U.S. Department Of Defense, Malware, network, Chief Information Officer, Authentication and encryption, USB Flash Drive, medical record
US govt spends over US$100M on cyberattack cleanup
News That's the price tag for the past six months. U.S. military officials say they would prefer to spend money to prevent cyberattacks and security breaches rather than pay to clean them up afterward.
Tags: Hacking, Security, Cybersecurity, Attack, Internet Attack, removable storage, Pentagon, virus, network, Air Force
China chooses FreeBSD as basis for secure OS
Techguide What OS would one choose as a basis for fortified software platforms? China decided to go open source, and it may be pulling ahead of the West in information warfare preparedness.
Tags: Security Management, Security implementation/standards, Network security, Open source, Security, Information Security, operating system, Chad Perrin, China, U.S.
Gates: Cyberattacks a constant threat
News U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates responds to report that hackers stole information about US$300 billion fighter jet program.
Tags: Hacking, Data security, Security, Cybersecurity, Air Traffic Control, Attack, Pentagon, computer, sensitive information, Wall Street Journal
Tainted products--sabotage or shoddy manufacturing?
News Panelists at the RSA security conference don't know why some products arrive on store shelves in the U.S. infected with viruses.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Malware, Manufacturing, globalization, intellectual property, Marcus Sachs, digital photograph, U.S., industry, supply chain
Defense may ban non-U.S. tech workers
News A new proposal by the U.S. Department of Defense could prevent most non-U.S. citizens from working with unclassified information.
Lucent wins US$75 million Iraq contract
News The Department of Defense taps the company to build or modernize phone networks used by Iraqi private businesses and the nation's interim government agencies.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications
S'pore in S$10m RFID push
News The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore will invest S$10 million (US$5.9m) in a three-year plan to promote the adoption and development of radio frequency identification technology.
Tags: Supply chain management (SCM)
Novell tunes in open-source server software
News "Hula" is meant to compete not only with Microsoft's Exchange and IBM's Domino, but also with Novell's own GroupWise
Tags: Open source
German man beats WWII Colossus code cracker
News A rebuilt British cipher-breaking machine used in World War II has been beaten in a codebreaking challenge by a German man who wrote his own software.
How to totally wipe out disk data
Insight Formatting hard drives is no guarantee if you want to completely wipe out data on disk. Better use a use a data wipe-out application. We look at the East-Tec Sanitizer.
ISPs: Sobig's the biggest virus so far
News As e-mail gateways get more bogged down with the virus's progeny, Internet service providers are declaring the program the fastest to date--and the cause of a huge epidemic.
