Computerworld articles from April 2007

Computerworld archives from April 2007

Theft of 45.6M card numbers largest heist yet: TJX compromise is worst on record involving the loss of personal data.(NEWS)(TJX Companies Inc.)
April 2, 2007... After more than two months of refusing to reveal the size and scope of the high-profile intrusion into its systems, The TJX Companies Inc. finally disclosed details about the extent of the compromise. In filings with the U.S. Securities and...

PG & E pushes for adoption of greener energy options: offers incentives to reduce servers in data centers.(Pacific Gas and Electric Co.)
April 2, 2007... The San Francisco Bay Area's naturally cool weather could help IT managers cut electricity costs. But Mark Bramfitt, who manages energy reduction programs for the high-tech sector at Pacific Gas and Electric Co., knows that most data centers...

Dell probe finds financial misdeeds.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Dell Inc. delayed the filing of its annual earnings report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after an internal investigation found evidence of misconduct and accounting errors. Dell has recently struggled with an SEC accounting...

H-1B filing rush expected today.(AT DEADLINE)(visas)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... An onslaught of H-1B visa applications is expected early this week. The U.S. today starts taking bids for 65,000 H-1B visas available under one cap, and 20,000 more set aside for advanced degree graduates of U.S. universities. Officials expect...

Security firm posts Windows patch.(AT DEADLINE)(EEye Digital Security Inc.)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... EEye Digital Security Inc. has released an unofficial fix for an unpatched flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. The temporary patch, published late last week, fixes a flaw in the way Windows processes animated cursor files, which...

Dell confirms plans for Linux systems.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Dell has confirmed plans to offer the Linux operating system on select desktop and notebook computers. The company disclosed the plan on its IdeaStorm Web site. Dell will reveal which models are included over the next few weeks but hasn't set a...

No smooth takeoff for US Airways IT conversion: integration of reservation systems with America West blamed for delays.(NEWS)(US Airways Group Inc., America West Airlines Inc.)
April 2, 2007... INFLEXIBLE LEGACY systems were partly to blame for glitches at US Airways Group Inc.'s self-service check-in kiosks early last month, according to an e-mail sent to frequent fliers by an executive at the company. The problems led to long lines...

Washington state, DHS may use RFID in licenses.(NEWS)(U.S. Department of Homeland Security, radio frequency identification)
April 2, 2007... The state of Washington and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security plan to jointly develop a driver's license, likely embedded with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, as an alternative to a passport for travel to some...

Failed VA contract 'an open checkbook': report finds poor planning led to overpayments.(NEWS)(Department of Veterans Affairs' contract to Veterans Affairs Security Team LLC )
April 2, 2007... A 10-YEAR, $103 million contract to create a security incident response center at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had to be aborted after less than three years because of funding problems resulting from inadequate planning and poor...

SANS program aims to boost secure IT coding skills: exams promise to better assess corporate, government programmers.(NEWS)(national secure programming skills assessment examinations from SANS Institute)
April 2, 2007... A coalition of 360 users and vendors led by the SANS Institute last week launched a new information security skills assessment and certification program for corporate and government software programmers. The National Secure Programming...

Posted code could be used to hack IE6.(BRIEFS)(Internet Explorer)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Software code published on the Internet last week could be used to exploit a flaw in Internet Explorer. The code exploits a recently patched flaw in the Microsoft Corp. browser. It could be used to run unauthorized software on a computer that...

SAP CEO's expected successor resigns.(BRIEFS)(Shai Agassi)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Shai Agassi, heir apparent to SAP AG CEO Henning Kagermann, has resigned as president of the company's product and technology group. Agassi had been slated to become co-CEO of SAP upon Kagermann's planned retirement later this year. However,...

Cisco buys maker of networking chips.(BRIEFS)(Cisco Systems Inc. to acquire SpansLogic Inc.)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Cisco Systems Inc. has agreed to buy SpansLogic Inc., a privately held maker of network processing chips, for an undisclosed sum. Cisco said it plans to embed chips developed by SpansLogic into its switch platforms to keep up with demand for...

Sun's Yen shifts to microelectronics unit.(David Yen of Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Jon Benson replaces him)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Sun Microsystems Inc. has named David Yen, who currently heads the company's storage division, to a new post overseeing development of global microelectronics products. Yen's group is responsible for developing microelectronics for networking,...

Touch-screen tech taps into ...(F-Origin Inc.'s HaptiTouch 2.0 with force sensitive technology)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Touch-Screen Tech Taps Into... advances to overcome lingering limits. Jordan Woods rattles off the problems people have with touch-screen systems: They crack easily, they get smudged, and they don't provide tactile feedback to users, which...

In a crisis, contact one person ...(Mir3 Inc.'s Intelligent Notification software)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... In a crisis, contact one person... or 1 million with Intelligent Notification. Reaching people during a crisis may get easier this month when Mir3 Inc. in San Diego releases Version 2.8 of its Intelligent Notification software. According to...

Data center on wheels cruises ...(Chicago's Unified Communications Vehicle)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Data center on wheels cruises... the streets of Chicago. On Sept. 11, 2006, Chicago took its new data center out for a spin. Called the Unified Communications Vehicle (UCV), it belongs to the city's Office of Emergency Management and...

Multicore CPUs cause multiple ...(PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows helps with multicore processing)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Multicore CPUs cause multiple... headaches for application developers. If you're a Visual Studio developer trying to push multicore processors to the max, consider PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows. According to Michael Mullany,...

Test your company's SAP apps ...(Worksoft Inc.'s Certify 7.2 for code free test automation)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Test your company's SAP apps... without SAP expertise. Linda Hayes, founder of Dallas-based Worksoft Inc., contends that customizing packaged applications like SAP requires significant scripting smarts, which means assigning your best...

Man sentenced for counterfeit scheme.(Courtney Smith sentenced for selling pirated software)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... An Indiana man has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for selling more than $700,000 worth of counterfeit software on eBay, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Courtney Smith was sentenced in an Indiana federal court for selling the...

IBM, Oracle join to form services group.(Service Research & Innovation Initiative)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... IBM and Oracle Corp. have joined forces to help create the Service Research & Innovation Initiative, an industry consortium focused on establishing a so-called service science discipline. The group, whose sponsors also include the Technology...

Circuit City awards $775M pact to IBM.(Circuit City Stores Inc.)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Circuit City Stores Inc. has awarded a seven-year, $775 million contract to IBM to handle its IT operations. The contract comes in the midst of a multi-year cost-cutting effort by the electronics retailer to improve efficiency. The contract...

Iona unveils SOA management tool.(Iona Technologies Inc., service-oriented architecture)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Iona Technologies Inc. has broadened its suite of Artix infrastructure software with a new tool for managing software services in a service-oriented architecture environment. Artix Registry/Repository 1.0 acts as a catalog that lists the...

Hospitals are slow to gain benefits from IT spending: but study suggests such investments eventually provide financial returns.(information technology)
April 2, 2007... IT TAKES a long time for hospitals to see a return on IT investments, according to a report released last week, which may explain why the industry has long been seen as a laggard in technology spending. "The Economics of IT and Hospital...

Judge denies Diebold request to stop state ES & S purchase: vendor contends Massachusetts erred in choice of e-voting machines.(Diebold Election Systems Inc., Election Systems and Software Inc.)
April 2, 2007... A Massachusetts state judge last week denied a request from Diebold Election Systems to suspend the state's purchase of electronic voting machines from Election Systems & Software Inc. Allen, Texas-based Diebold had filed a lawsuit against...

Financial firms give mobile banking a boost: U.S. customers are late adopters, but stronger security may increase use.(Wachovia Corp. plans to launch mobile banking software for AT&T)
April 2, 2007... New deals announced last week might give mobile banking the kick in the pants it needs to become as popular in the U.S. as it is in Europe and Asia. In the fourth quarter, Wachovia Corp. plans to launch a third-party mobile banking...

Wikipedia founder rejects his 'ignore all rules' mantra in new online project.(Larry Sanger launches Citizendium)(Interview)
April 2, 2007... Larry Sanger's answer to his former firm, Wikimedia Foundation Inc., is a new online encyclopedia called Citizendium, which was launched last week. Sanger, Citizendium's editor in chief and a cofounder of Wikipedia, talked about how the new...

Stolen U.K. laptop held data on 11,500 children.(Notting-hamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... A U.K. NATIONAL Health Service primary care trust has launched an investigation into the theft of a laptop containing names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children. Wendy Saviour, CEO of Notting-hamshire County Teaching Primary...

Dresden seeks EU funds for tech projects.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... ONE OF Europe's leading areas for semiconductor research and manufacturing may be unable to compete globally for high-tech investors without greater financial support from the European Union, German government officials said. The city of...

HSBC Bank Australia exposes customer data.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... MORE THAN 100 HSBC Bank Australia Ltd. customers had their banking details, names, home addresses and other personal financial information exposed late last month in a security breach by the bank's staff. The information was contained in...

Capita Group in line for [pounds sterling]290M IT pact.(city council of Southampton selects Capita Group for information technology project)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... THE CITY council of Southampton, England, has selected Capita Group PLC as its preferred bidder for a 10-year IT project now valued at [pounds sterling]290 million ($570 million U.S.). The contract will cover IT, customer services, human...

Intel confirms plan for Chinese chip plant.(An International IT News Digest)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... INTEL CORP. President and CEO Paul Otellini last week confirmed that the company plans to build a $2.5 billion chip manufacturing plant in China. The plant, to be built in Dalian, is expected to begin production during the first half of...

1%.(percentage of UK firms with more than 1000 employees that plan to implement Windows Vista)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... 1% The percentage of U.K. firms employing more than 1,000 workers that plan to immediately implement Windows Vista. SOURCE: CAMWOOD LTD., LONDON

Federal Communications Commission.(Michael Powell to lead FCC's advisory board for NTT DoCoMo Inc.)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Michael Powell, former head of the Federal Communications Commission, will lead a U.S.-based advisory board for NTT DoCoMo Inc., the Tokyo-based mobile telecommunications carrier said last week. Powell will be chairman of a board that meets...

Applied Materials Inc.(opens machinery lab in China)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Applied Materials Inc. last month opened a new production line machinery lab in Xi'an, China, to develop a range of equipment. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said that 65% of its orders during the first quarter of its 2007 fiscal year...

Microsoft Corp.(signs deal with Fuji Xerox Co.)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Microsoft Corp. and Tokyo-based Fuji Xerox Co. last month signed a deal to use each other's technologies. They said the move is aimed at speeding up the development of new document management systems. Under the cross-licensing agreement, each...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.(plans plant closure and layoffs)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to close a manufacturing plant in Mexico and lay off 11% of its 40,000 workers worldwide in a bid to shore up its hard disk drive operations. The San Jose-based company projects that the move will cut...

European Union.(new rules on cross border payment services)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... European Union finance ministers have agreed on new rules to govern cross-border payment services for transactions made anywhere within its 27 member states. The directive will provide the legal framework for the Single Euro Payments Area,...

IBM researcher aims to improve Web access for visually impaired.(Chieko Asakawa)(Interview)
April 2, 2007... Chieko Asakawa, who has been blind since age 14, is a senior accessibility researcher at IBM's Tokyo Research Laboratory. Since joining IBM in 1985, she has worked on a variety of projects to improve system and Web accessibility for the...

Our next 40 years.(periodical 40th anniversary)(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... WHAT were you doing 40 years ago? If you're a subscriber to the print edition of Computerworld, the demographic average suggests that you were nine years old, so chances are you were just doing whatever it is fourth graders do. I was a freshman...

Tom Sawyer, IT and the 'free' world.(OPINION)(Column)
April 2, 2007... MANY OF us thought that the great chasm that divided us into free and not free ceased to be a model of the world order about the time that the Berlin Wall fell. Politically, that's true, but a similar chasm is developing today in the worlds of...

How to truly partner with the business.(tips to business analysts)(Column)
April 2, 2007... I'VE HAD some interesting conversations in the past few weeks about the role of business analysts and the best practices that most of them currently use for requirements-gathering. And I've noticed a major contradiction between our stated...

Some like IT hot.(Letter to the editor)
April 2, 2007... INFORMATION technology has always been a tough job ["Time to Reinvent IT," Frankly Speaking, March 5]. Operating systems, networks and applications always change to meet the business environment. However, the pace has increased and shows no...

Breach hierarchy.(Letter to the editor)
April 2, 2007... WHAT'S HAPPENING here in Texas is far worse than when the Veterans Administration or some other agency loses a drive with sensitive information on it ["Texas Counties Illegally Posting Social Security Numbers Online, AG Says,"...

An easier upgrade.(Letter to the editor)
April 2, 2007... THE ARTICLE "Wait! Don't Buy Windows Vista!" [Computerworld.com, Jan. 25] states, "Installing any new operating system is time-consuming." While it is true that it is time-consuming to install any Microsoft operating system, installing a Linux...

On the corporate radar: organizations are homing in on the potential impact of geospatial tracking and analysis technology.(STRATEGIES & TACTICS)
April 2, 2007... WHEN CRIME STRIKES in Dover, N.H., police officers on the scene can get help more quickly than ever before. That's because GPS equipment in squad cars pinpoints the location of each unit. "The dispatchers can see the cruisers moving around and...

So you want to be a digital detective? Hardly a case goes to court these days without the help of electronic gumshoes.(STRATEGIES & TACTICS)
April 2, 2007... THE MAN was careful to cover his tracks, erasing e-mail messages and other incriminating documents. He sent especially sensitive messages to his prospective employer via a Web-based e-mail service, not the corporate e-mail system of his current...

Management by promises: even the most sophisticated company is really a bunch of people making promises to one another.(Donald N. Sull of London Business School)(Interview)
April 2, 2007... In many organizations, customers hurl requests at IT like paperboys chucking newspapers onto doorsteps, says Donald N. Sull in this month's Harvard Business Review. This lack of interaction between service providers and customers doesn't lead...

No more job reviews: subtle changes in focus can transform the dreaded performance review into an opportunity to build better IT employees, teams and organizations.(STRATEGIES & TACTICS)
April 2, 2007... PERFORMANCE REVIEWS are the fruitcake of management. Nobody really wants to give them because everybody knows that nobody wants to get them. And once the unpleasantness is done, the whole rigmarole is put on a high shelf and never thought about...

DITA.(Darwin Information Typing Architecture )
April 2, 2007... DITA USES XML as the basis for designing, writing, managing and publishing many kinds of information, both in print and on the Web. DITA includes a set of design principles for creating "information-typed" modules covering specific topics. The...

Time isn't always on our side in IT: this year's early daylight-saving time was a mini-Y2k crisis. Our manager scrambles and comes out OK, again.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)(Column)
April 2, 2007... EVERY ONCE in a while, we find ourselves playing the IT version of Beat the Clock. This game involves the clocks in our computers. They always do as they're told, but sometimes we haven't given them enough information. Two cases in point: Y2k,...

California closes route to ID theft.(identity theft)(California secretary of state)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Three years after it first made some documents containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive data available on its Web site, the California secretary of state's office shut down online access to the records because of identity theft...

No patch yet for StarOffice bugs.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... Two bugs in Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice allow attackers to take control of a computer by serving up malicious documents or URLs, Sun said in two advisories on its Web site. The flaws are in the StarCalc spreadsheet and in how the suite...

Offshore software cited as threat.(Center for Strategic and International Studies report)(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... A report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a study due this month from the U.S. Department of Defense both suggest that using software developed overseas puts the U.S. at risk. Bob Lucky, chairman of the Defense...

CIOs look at IT.(efficiency )(Brief article)
April 2, 2007... In which discipline is your IT group performing best? Strategic alignment with business: 30% Optimizing expenses/proving IT value: 30% Optimizing use/understanding of IT infrastructure: 14%...

Sometimes it takes a tyrant.(strategies of management)(Column)
April 2, 2007... SOMETIMES a manager needs to be a tyrant. On rare occasions, anything less is a disservice to one's organization and an abdication of responsibility. Even the most open, consensus-oriented manager needs to be prepared to use dictatorial...

Wait till next year.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Networked Readiness Index of countries which uses IT in a abest way)(Column)
April 2, 2007... THE HEADLINES last week shouted crisis. "U.S. No Longer Technology King," said one. "Survey Shows U.S. Slipping Globally in IT Use," read another. Sure enough, the U.S. had fallen from first place in the Networked Readiness Index, the World...

Full-throttle IT.(information technology )(Column)
April 2, 2007... Late one evening, pilot fish is filling in on the second shift when a user calls and says his computer is running slow. "Can you shoot some high-end memory over the system?" he asks. You mean you want a memory upgrade? asks puzzled fish. "Nah,...

Microsoft defends effort to patch flaw: IT execs, researchers split over pace of work on ANI fix.(NEWS)
April 9, 2007... Microsoft Corp. first learned of an animated cursor flaw in Windows on Dec. 20--more than 100 days before it released an emergency patch last week to block active attempts to exploit the vulnerability. The head of the software vendor's...

Thin clients get Microsoft's approval--for some users: new licenses limited to SA customers.(Software Assurance maintenance and upgrade program)
April 9, 2007... Once an avowed opponent of thin clients, Microsoft Corp. has made an about-face in recent years. And last week, the company brought its affair with network computing into the open, revising two previously ambiguous software licenses related to...

Software AG agrees to buy webMethods.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Software AG has agreed to buy webMethods Inc. in a cash deal valued at $546 million. Darmstadt, Germany-based Software AG said the acquisition will bolster its service-oriented architecture offerings and help it increase business in North...

Oracle's EMEA users cancel conference.(by EMEA Oracle User Group Council)(Europe, Middle East, Asia)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... The EMEA Oracle User Group Council canceled its OUC 2007 conference scheduled to begin May 3 at the RAI Conference Center in Amsterdam. It declined comment on the cancellation. An official of Oracle Corp.'s French-speaking user group speculated...

VeriSign to increase prices for .com, .net.(AT DEADLINE)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... VeriSign Inc. has announced plans to increase the wholesale cost of registering .com and .net domain names in October. VeriSign said the increased revenue will be used to pay for infrastructure improvements. The increases are the first of...

Mozilla adding Web 2.0 tools to Firefox.(The Coop, project)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Mozilla Corp. has unveiled a proof-of-concept prototype that would add social networking features to Firefox. Called "The Coop," the project would let users of the open-source browser share photos, news stories and links with others; track...

Colorado DMV puts brakes on $13M registration system: faulty data was delivered to police at traffic stops.(Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles's Colorado State Titling and Registration System )
April 9, 2007... SEVEN MONTHS after it was deployed by the Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), a $13 million vehicle title and registration system was shut down last week because of data transfer irregularities that have led to the retrieval of...

CA to unveil new Workload Automation family.(CA ESP Workload Automation 5.5)
April 9, 2007... CA Inc. today is set to unveil a new line of job scheduling tools that includes a Web portal and four updated offerings. The new CA Workload Automation family includes mainframe and distributed tools from CA and the former Cybermation Inc.,...

Government IT execs call for standardized Vista rollouts: White House, California county look to coordinate deployments of new OS.(Microsoft Windows Vista)(operating systems)
April 9, 2007... The White House sees Windows Vista as an opportunity to move all of the federal government's PCs to a standard security configuration. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, the IT director for California's Monterey County views Vista...

Nearly 500 IRS laptops lost or stolen over three years: audit also finds unencrypted data of taxpayers on 44 laptops now in use.(NEWS)(Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration audit)(Internal Revenue Service)
April 9, 2007... Nearly 500 Internal Revenue Service laptops--many likely containing unencrypted personal information of taxpayers--were lost or stolen over a 30-month period ending in June 2006, according to an audit released last month. The audit,...

H-1B requests surge past limit in one day.(applications received by Citizenship and Immigration Services)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... The federal government ran out of H-1B visas last week, reaching the 65,000 limit on the first day that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services began accepting applications. The agency received about 150,000 requests for guest worker...

KKR to purchase First Data for $29B.(Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has agreed to buy First Data Corp. for $29 billion in cash. First Data provides payment products and services to help merchants and financial institutions validate and process payments. The...

CSC discloses 62 federal contracts.(Computer Sciences Corp.)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Computer Sciences Corp. said it signed previously undisclosed contracts valued at $1.29 billion with the U.S. government during the first quarter of 2007. The 62 contracts included 28 with civil agencies valued at $811 million and 34 with...

IBM donation to aid efforts in Iraq.(speech translation software and laptops to the government)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... IBM has announced plans to donate 10,000 copies of its speech translation software, along with 1,000 laptop and handheld computers to run it, to the U.S. government for use in humanitarian efforts in Iraq. IBM said that about 160 of its...

Don't let Vista deployment ...(Desktop Server 1.0 from Citrix Systems Inc.)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Don't Let Vista Deployment... drive you nuts. That might be tough, given that Gartner Inc. estimates that half of the PCs in companies to-day can't run Microsoft Corp.'s new operating system. Wes Wasson, vice president of worldwide marketing...

'Applications don't just break ...(SignaCert Inc.'s Global Trust Services)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... 'Applications don't just break... they degrade over time.' And that's much worse, says Amal Chaudhuri, president of SignaCert Inc. in Portland, Ore. You immediately notice when an app fails, he says, but a decaying one is "insidious," slowly...

Old webcasts and podcasts ...(On24 Inc. launched www.insight24.com )(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Old webcasts and podcasts... won't just fade away. Ever wonder what happens to online broadcast events after they're over? Not much, actually. According to Tom Masotto, vice president of business development at San Franciso-based ON24 Inc.,...

Rich media ...(Bill Joll of On2 Technologies Inc. views on user generated content and brand identity)
April 9, 2007... Rich media... you can't escape it. Certainly not in the future, says Bill Joll, CEO of Clifton Park, N.Y.-based On2 Technologies Inc., which is 22 numbers away from and no relation to ON24. That's because of the availability of both vast...

Correction: CCV adores ...(ON THE MARK)(Correction notice)
April 9, 2007... Correction: CCV adores... Series A investments. Through a spokesman, Mike Fitzgerald, managing general partner of Commonwealth Capital Ventures LP in Waltham, Mass.--quoted here on March 26 as "eschew[ing] most Series A investments"--says that...

Malware outfits put business gloss on illicit IT activities: 'managed exploit providers' offer cybercrime support services and more.(NEWS)
April 9, 2007... LIKE MANY just-launched e-commerce Web sites, a security-related one that lets visitors transact business in Russian or English has a fairly functional, if somewhat rudimentary, home page. A list of links points to an FAQ section, spells out...

Black Hat demos reveal major flaws in Cisco's NAC.(Cisco Systems Inc.'s Network Admission Control )
April 9, 2007... Two flaws in Cisco Systems Inc.'s Network Admission Control (NAC) architecture allow unauthorized PCs to be viewed as legitimate devices on a network, according to German security researchers. A tool that takes advantage of the flaws was...

Infor to buy Toronto software maker.(Infor Global Solutions GmbH and Workbrain Corp. )(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Infor Global Solutions GmbH has agreed to purchase Toronto-based online workforce management software vendor Workbrain Corp. for about $227 million in cash. Infor said it plans to use Workbrain's software to expand its human resources software...

CEO leaves eEye after six months.(Ross Brown will be replaced by Kamal Arafeh at the eEye Digital Security )(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... After slightly more than six months on the job, eEye Digital Security CEO Ross Brown has left the company, eEye confirmed. According to a source familiar with the matter, the board of directors asked Brown to leave. Kamal Arafeh, eEye's senior...

Marvell licenses Sun technology.(Sun Microsystems Inc., Marvell Technology Group Ltd.)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Sun Microsystems Inc. is licensing its multithreaded 10GB Ethernet networking technology to Marvell Technology Group Ltd., marking the first deal since the computer maker created a separate microelectronics group last month. Marvell, a fabless...

Google plans to build data center in S.C.(BRIEFS)(South Carolina)(Brief article)
April 9, 2007... Google Inc. plans to invest $600 million in a new data center in South Carolina, according to state officials. The facility will be built on a 519-acre site at the Mt. Holly Commerce Park near Charleston. The state said the center should employ...

Privacy advocate pushes to protect data in public records.(Betty Ostergren)(Interview)
April 9, 2007... For nearly five years, Betty "BJ" Ostergren--a feisty 57-year-old former insurance claims supervisor--has led a one-person crusade to persuade county and state government officials to stop posting public records containing Social Security...