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Computerworld Security
November 26, 2007
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In this issue:
* E-mails confirm HMRC mistake was attempt to save money
* New QuickTime bug opens XP, Vista to attack
* Frankly Speaking: Attention Shoppers
* Privacy and piracy: What are we telling the kids?
* French government plans to disconnect content pirates
* UK youth warned MySpace isn't private (OMG!!!!1)
* Security Manager's Journal: E-discovery Prompts a Second Look at Data
Retention
* IT and climate change -- Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday!
Computerworld Blogs:
* Douglas Schweitzer: Get shelter from this Storm
* Angela Gunn: A stiff upper lip, eBay-style
* Eric Ogren: Security thanks
* Shark Bait: Lonely users
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E-mails confirm HMRC mistake was attempt to save money
A memo from a junior U.K. bureaucrat to an official at another agency reveals
that to save about $10,000, the HMRC refused a request to pull address and
banking details out of the files that were subsequently lost in the U.K.'s
largest-ever data breach.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2398147/114916/88475/2/
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New QuickTime bug opens XP, Vista to attack
A flub by Apple developers may endanger XP and Vista users as an unpatched bug
in QuickTime goes public. Macs were the first systems targeted for attack, but
security researcher suspect Windows systems won't be far behind.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2398147/114916/88476/2/
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Frankly Speaking: Attention Shoppers
It's almost December, and that means users are facing personal and professional
pressures that could push them over the edge. Frank Hayes suggests taking a
friendly, proactive approach to help them cope; you could start by offering
them tips on safe online shopping.
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Privacy and piracy: What are we telling the kids?
What are the security consequences of letting the MPAA and RIAA frame the terms
of intellectual-property law? Jon Espenschied has five reasons the madness
needs to end.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2398147/114916/88479/2/
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French government plans to disconnect content pirates
A French two-strikes-and-you're out plan for cutting off accused downloaders'
Internet access has consumers-rights groups howling.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2398147/114916/88480/2/
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UK youth warned MySpace isn't private (OMG!!!!1)
Privacy isn't *quite* the farthest kids from kids' minds when they're online,
but they're having a tough time connecting the dots between what they throw
onto the likes of MySpace now and what the eternal sunshine of the search
engines will reveal when it's time for college and job applications.
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Security Manager's Journal: E-discovery Prompts a Second Look at Data Retention
New e-discovery rules could place a heavy burden on IT to search archived data.
How much of it is really needed?
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COMPUTERWORLD BLOGS
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Get shelter from this Storm
Douglas Schweitzer: This computer virus is unusually notorious. And talk about
staying power - this spam-generating beast only just turned a year old and in
that amount of time it has infected a million PCs the world over...
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A stiff upper lip, eBay-style
Angela Gunn: About 25 million people in the U.K. are now potentially at risk of
ID theft, but leave it to the British to find the funny...
To view the rest of the post, click the following link.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/2398147/114916/88471/2/
Security thanks
Eric Ogren: The holidays are upon us and it is time to give thanks to a few
vendors that have had a big impact on security in 2007. Surprisingly, most of
the good security stories in 2007 have come from the major business
infrastructure vendors, and not from the pure-play security community...
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Shark Bait: Lonely users
Pilot Fish: A few months back, a client of mine calls me in complaining they
have no Internet and that when they do, it's really slow. Absolutely, bandwidth
was slow -- CPU on proxy server was maxed out to 100% for a good 1.5 hours ...
To view the rest of the post, click the following link.
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