Computerworld articles from February 2009

Computerworld archives from February 2009

Better than that.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(readers reaction on foreign labor in the United States)(Editorial)
February 2, 2009... CNN called it "Bloody Monday." On Jan. 26, more than 71,400 jobs were lost as massive cuts were announced by manufacturing and service companies. Yet even that did little to distract the attention of some who saw a darker cloud hanging over...

Response to: the other casualty.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
February 2, 2009... Jan. 19, 2009 I fully understand that these are hard times. I witnessed it firsthand earlier this month at the NRF event in NYC. Exhibits that used to take all day to get through took me just a few hours (and I even went around twice!)....

Responses to: more than a list.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
February 2, 2009... Jan. 19, 2009 A lot of programmers are perfectly aware that their code could potentially contain security holes. Handing them this list isn't going to help much. However, the problem is not, as Frank Hayes seems to see, that they can't be...

Response to: turning up the heat to save energy.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
February 2, 2009... Jan. 19, 2009 It seems to me that the bulk of this article says two things: Don't let the hot exhaust air mix into the cold inlet air, and make sure that the chillers pull the hot air in rather than letting it stagnate over the machines....

The week ahead.(Calendar)
February 2, 2009... MONDAY: Soldier Technology US 2009, a conference focused on battlefield technologies, opens in Arlington, Va. WEDNESDAY: Cisco plans to report its Q2 financial results. The networking vendor said in November that it expected revenue to be...

Job cutbacks continue to escalate at IT vendors.(THE IT ECONOMY)(information technology)
February 2, 2009... THE LIST of IT vendors that are laying off workers grew even longer last week, with companies such as SAP AG and Sprint Nextel Corp. announcing cutbacks. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In doing so, they joined Microsoft, Intel, Sun...

Windows 7 to be tested thoroughly.(LEGAL ISSUES)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows 7 will be "more thoroughly" monitored for compliance with a 2002 antitrust settlement than earlier versions of the operating system, according to a status report filed last week with the federal judge overseeing...

Drive makers agree on TCG encryption standard.(SECURITY)(Trusted Computing Group)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... THE WORLD'S largest disk drive makers have pledged to support three new Trusted Computing Group (TCG) encryption standards for hard disk drives, solid-state drives and encryption-key management applications. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The...

VeriSign Inc. has agreed to buy Certicom Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... * VeriSign Inc. has agreed to buy Certicom Corp., a developer of cryptography technology, for $73 million. The deal came three days after Research In Motion Ltd. dropped a hostile $52 million bid for Certicom.

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... * Microsoft Corp. is postponing construction of a planned data center facility in lowa as part of a cost-cutting effort.

SAP North America.(Short Takes)(Rob Enslin )(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... * Rob Enslin has been promoted to president and CEO of SAP North America, replacing Gregory Tomb, who is taking a leave of absence for personal reasons. A 16-year SAP veteran, Enslin was previously COO of the unit.

Correction.(Correction notice)
February 2, 2009... Joseph Antonellis was incorrectly identified as State Street Corp.'s CIO in the Jan. 12 Editor's Note. Antonellis is State Street's vice chairman. He was CIO from 2002 to 2007, when he was replaced in that job by Christopher Perretta, who...

Banks, customers feel the fallout of Heartland breach.(CYBERCRIME)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... IN A SIGN OF the scope of the data breach disclosed Jan. 20 by Heartland Payment Systems Inc., banks and credit unions from Maine to Washington state have begun reissuing credit and debit cards to customers. There were also reports last...

Google extends Gmail to offline users.(INTERNET APPLICATIONS)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... GOOGLE INC. last week launched an updated version of its hosted Gmail e-mail service that lets users access their accounts without an Internet connection. Joyce Sohn, a spokes-woman for Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, noted in a...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
February 2, 2009... I'M THINKING of a NUMBER BETWEEN 1 and 10,000. I HATE THEIR LATOFF ANNOUNCEMENTS. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Microsoft Corp.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... Microsoft Corp. issued a "release candidate" version of its Internet Explorer 8 browser. But it didn't set a shipment date for IE8 or say whether Release Candidate 1 would be the final precursor.

comScore Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... Online research firm comScore Inc. said the number of Internet users worldwide surpassed the 1 billion mark in December, the first time it has done so in any single month.

Two years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... TWO YEARS AGO: Michael Dell took back the CEO job at Dell Inc., after the hardware vendor had foundered under Kevin Rollins, his handpicked successor.

Fujitsu drive-head production halted.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... TOKYO -- Fujitsu Ltd. last week announced that it plans to end production of read/write heads for hard disk drives in March as part of a wider review of its drive business. The move will affect about 360 employees at Fujitsu's factory in...

Nokia outsources IT work to HCL.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... BANGALORE, India - Nokia Corp. has outsourced its internal desktop management and help desk functions in 76 countries to India-based outsourcer HCL Technologies Ltd. HCL and the handset maker announced a five-year contract, worth an...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg has rejected a request from Intel Corp. to postpone a deadline in the European Commission's antitrust proceedings against the company, clearing the way for the EC's long-awaited ruling. The EC has...

Cost of Obama e-health plan could reach $100B: but the former head of the federal e-health office estimates annual savings of $300 billion.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(Barack Obama)
February 2, 2009... A NATIONAL electronic health records system remains a first-term priority for President Barack Obama, but its price tag may far exceed current estimates, according to some health care experts. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The magnitude of...

Microsoft layoffs add more fuel to H-1B fire: the vendor's job cuts have sparked a new round in the H-1B debate: should visa holders be laid off before U.S. citizens are?(NEWS ANALYSIS)
February 2, 2009... LAYOFF announcements by IT vendors came fast and furious over the past two weeks. But it was Microsoft Corp.'s that drew the attention of a U.S. senator, who said it was "imperative" that the company give job priority to U.S. citizens over...

Jonathan Schwartz: Sun Microsystems' CEO talks about the economy, disruptive technologies and necessity as the mother of invention.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
February 2, 2009... Dossier Name: Jonathan Schwartz Title: CEO Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Location: Santa Clara, Calif. Best books read last year: * Empires of Light, by Jill Jonnes, "a really entertaining history of...

Innovation and the 20% solution.(OPINION)
February 2, 2009... AS IT budgets threaten to follow the same trend lines as financial markets, it's a natural impulse for managers to circle the wagons, concentrate on core projects and put off innovation for another day. Natural, but wrong. For proof, look...

Yes, you can: how to initiate change your company can believe in.(Cover story)
February 2, 2009... As an IT professional, you don't often have the luxury of going with the flow. With businesses everywhere seeking both efficiencies and revenue growth, IT's mission is increasingly geared toward implementing and even spearheading many types of...

Why every IT woman can benefit from a peer network: finding a group you identify with can lead to immeasurable career and personal gain.(IT MENTOR)
February 2, 2009... WHEN I started college at Bowling Green State University in the fall of 1978, I was among a large group of women majoring in computer science. Although today there are far fewer women nationwide who choose that field, at the time, about 40% to...

High-density storage: what happens when we hit the theoretical wall? Read on.(QUICKSTUDY)
February 2, 2009... THE FIRST storage media--paper tape and punched cards--were inefficient, slow and bulky. These gave way to magnetic storage: core memory, drums and, finally, hard drives. For backup, there were removable media: magnetic tape reels and...

Femtocells: pros and cons: is it time for your own 'personal cell-phone tower?(MOBILE AND WIRELESS)
February 2, 2009... ARE YOU one of those unlucky souls who enjoys decent cell phone reception when you're out and about but can't get a signal inside? You're not alone. Indoor signals have long been a weak point of cellular coverage. That's why femtocell...

Some incidents can make life interesting: there's no such thing as a good security incident, but some cases are more instructive than destructive.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
February 2, 2009... NO SECURITY manager wishes for a security incident. They can be costly, disruptive and a professional black mark. But getting to the bottom of a minor event--one that causes no real harm or has a minimal effect but isn't run-of-the-mill and...

Involuntary consultatude.(OPINION)(Column)
February 2, 2009... OVER THE YEARS, I've noticed that when the economy turns sour, the number of people calling themselves consultants grows dramatically. Sometimes it seems the definition of consultant has been changed to "person between jobs." Since this...

401(k): what's going on in those unopened envelopes.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
February 2, 2009... Haven't had the heart to check the undoubtedly plummeting balance in your 401(k) account? Leave the envelopes from your plan sealed if you find these averages depressing. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2007 ...

Jobs snapshot.(Career Watch)(Table)
February 2, 2009... 19% Percentage of workers who said they would like to find a new job in 2009 49% Percentage who cited better pay and/or career advancement reasons for their desire to change jobs 25% Percentage who reported that they...

Joe Takash: the president of performance management firm victory consulting discusses the best way to confront the boss.(Q&A)(Interview)
February 2, 2009... You say most people prefer to avoid difficult conversations with their bosses, but when one is necessary, they should think of it instead as a productive confrontation. What do you mean by that? It's helpful to make the distinction....

True tales of it life as told to Sharky.(SharkTank)
February 2, 2009... Now That's Lunch! This pilot fish is "scholar in residence" at a local library that has just acquired a new Unix server in order to move into the Information Age. "Their local Web guru had built a whole Web site, over 200 pages - all using...

No Rx for ROI.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Return on Investment)(Column)
February 2, 2009... IT SHOULD BE EASY. Electronic health records (EHR), if widely used in the U.S., could save more than $200 billion a year (see story, page 12). The total cost of rolling them out is estimated at $100 billion. They would pay for themselves in six...

Tarnished discourse.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
February 9, 2009... IF THERE'S one thing we hate doing around here, it's removing reader comments from our Web site. We feel very strongly that our readers' voices should be heard, regardless of how objectionable any one of us might find a particular viewpoint....

Not the time to regress in IT management.(Letter to the editor)
February 9, 2009... I often enjoy reading the topics Don Tennant tackles in his Editor's Note and usually can relate on a professional level. With the Jan. 19 column, "The Other Casualty," I could relate on an academic level, since I'm currently enrolled in the...

Cost concerns usually drive IT change efforts.(Letter to the editor)
February 9, 2009... I greatly enjoyed Gary Anthes' column "Out With the Old, In With the New" in the Jan. 19 issue of Computerworld. I am now going to spoil my compliment with my input (this proves I am a programmer at heart). Anthes said that an IT manager's...

The week ahead.(briefs)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... TUESDAY: Microsoft plans to issue four security fixes, two of them rated "critical," in its monthly software patch release. TUESDAY: AMD is due to hold a stockholders meeting in Austin on the planned spin-off of its chip plants. ...

Windows 7: two main editions, six all told.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)
February 9, 2009... LOOKING TO address complaints about the proliferation of Windows editions, Microsoft Corp. last week said it will sell Windows 7 in two primary versions: one for business users and the other for consumers. However, the software vendor will...

Data breaches continue to get more costly.(SECURITY)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... THE AVERAGE COST of data breaches to the companies hit by them continues to increase, according to a report by the Ponemon Institute. The study of 43 braches disclosed last year found that costs averaged $202 per compromised customer...

IBM to build 20-petaflop computer for Energy dept.(HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... THE U.S. government has awarded IBM a contract to build a supercomputer capable of performing at 20 petaflops, which is more powerful than all of the systems on today's Top500 supercomputer list combined. Terms of the deal were not...

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... Intel Corp. has delayed the release of the quad-core Tukwila chip, its next-generation 64-bit Itanium processor. The company needs time to add new memory technology to improve server performance and to add backward-compatibility for future...

Terry Childs.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... Terry Childs, a former San Francisco city network administrator who was jailed last summer for allegedly holding the city's network hostage, is seeking $3 million from the city for what he claimed was a wrongful arrest.

Oracle Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... Oracle Corp. has issued 102 subpoenas to 99 former customers of TomorrowNow, the now-shuttered SAP subsidiary at the heart of Oracle's lawsuit against SAP AG. The lawsuit alleges that TomorrowNow employees illegally downloaded Oracle material.

Mozilla Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... Mozilla Corp. released an updated version of the Firefox browser. It said the new release fixes bugs that hackers could exploit to run unauthorized software on a PC.

SAP unveils full upgrade of ERP Suite.(ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS)(enterprise resource planning)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... SAP AG last week unveiled a new version of its Business Suite ERP software, which analysts said marks the first time the modules are integrated on a single underlying platform. "People have had this perception that it's this one integrated...

Firms take steps to head off encryption dangers.(DATA STORAGE)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... THE GROWING call to encrypt stored data is raising questions among users and analysts fearful that a lost password or damaged drive could bury important information forever. Some industry observers believe that a new Trusted Computing Group...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
February 9, 2009... DID YOU KNOW THAT DATA BREACHES ARE MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE THE SECOND TIME? Job Interview Warning signs [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Lenovo Group Ltd.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(resignation of William Amelio)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... William Amelio resigned as CEO of Lenovo Group Ltd. after a $97 million Q3 loss. Lenovo replaced him with an executive in China and said it plans to focus more on the PC market there.

Sun Microsystems Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(resignation of Michael Widenius and Marten Mickos)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... Michael Widenius, MySQL's original developer, resigned from database owner Sun Microsystems Inc. Marten Mickos, head of Sun's database unit and MySQL AB's former CEO, is also leaving.

Nine years ago.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Delta Air Lines Inc.)(Ford Motor Co.)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... NINE YEARS AGO: Ford Motor Co. and Delta Air Lines Inc. announced plans to offer all employees home computers and Internet access for small monthly fees.

Satyam Promotes Murty to CEO.(Global Dispatches)(Satyam Computer Services Ltd.)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... HYDERABAD, India - Struggling Satyam Computer Services Ltd. last week promoted 15-year company veteran A.S. Murty to CEO, a move that may be temporary as the company looks to sell itself. The company also said that it has raised about $130...

Intel shuttering Chinese plant to cut costs.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... SHANGHAI - IntelCorp. last week announced that it is closing a chip testing and assembly plant here as part of a restructuring of its Chinese operations that is designed to cut costs. The company said that it will offer some of the plant's...

Briefly noted.(Global Dispatches)(Bavaria. Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... The Bavarian State Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection has awarded a three-year contract to Unisys Corp.'s subsidiary in Sulzbach, Germany, to continue managing the agency's IT infrastructure. Terms weren't disclosed. Unisys will also...

SaaS still on the rise, despite down economy; some users think software as a service could cause long-term financial pain. But the immediate savings gains are trumping such fears now.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(software as a service)
February 9, 2009... OVER ALL IT spending has slowed down, forcing many IT vendors to lay off workers. But spending on software-as-a-service applications is growing at double-digit rates, as users look to take advantage of the relatively low cost of implementing...

Tech jobs forecast: mostly gloomy, with some bright spots: the number of IT positions is shrinking because of the recession. But there are still jobs to be had.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
February 9, 2009... SHORTLY AFTER Donnie Reynolds, chief operating officer at Automated HealthCare Solutions Inc. in Miramar, Fla., learned that Microsoft Corp. planned to cut 5,000 workers over the next 18 months, he and a co worker flew to the software vendor's...

John Seely Brown: the innovation whiz talks about dropping old assumptions, finding silver linings and living on the edge.(THE GRILL)(Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation)(Interview)
February 9, 2009... Dossier Name: John Seely Brown Title: Co-chairman Organization: Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation Location: San Jose Favorite technology: The iPhone In high school he was: A champion cow judger Ambition:...

Apple's silver lining.(Viewpoint essay)
February 9, 2009... EVEN A CURSORY REVIEW of Apple's history makes it clear that Steve Jobs has been instrumental to its success in both tours of duty. And whatever Jobs may be battling during his leave of absence, one can only hope he returns, hale and vigorous....

Blind sided! They thought they had their stored data locked tight, but they were wrong. Here are five of the biggest storage mishaps and how you can avoid a similar fate.(STORAGE)(Technical report)
February 9, 2009... DATA BREACHES, unfortunately, have become a way of life for corporate America. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), 2008 saw a 47% increase in documented data breaches from the year before (see chart, page 24). And those are...

Locked down in the data center: keep stored data safe within company walls with encryption and key management.(STORAGE)
February 9, 2009... BECU, Washington state's largest credit union, used to keep its stored data locked down using an appliance to encrypt data before it was stored to tape. But when it had the opportunity to upgrade storage equipment, the company chose a simpler,...

Locked down in transit: better protect your company's movable media by rejecting these six common myths.(STORAGE)
February 9, 2009... EVERY FEW MONTHS, there's another horror story about lost tapes or stolen laptops, and we're left wondering if the information stored on the missing media will be put to some nefarious use, thereby adding personal injury to a public relations...

Solid state's new kill switch: military-grade SSDs are easier to erase, although harder to restore.(STORAGE)(solid state disk)
February 9, 2009... AS THE PILOT ejects inside enemy territory, the fighter jet triggers an automatic data-destruction sequence. Within 15 seconds, the highly classified mission data on the solid-state disk has been wiped out. The storage device in this...

Extensible access method: use it to preserve the integrity and authenticity of 'fixed content.'.(QUICKSTUDY)
February 9, 2009... MOST DATA is "fixed content," or digital information that will be preserved in its original form without change. Examples include most images (think of a medical X-ray or a canceled check); archived transactions; stored e-mail, presentations...

Your security game plan.(Viewpoint essay)
February 9, 2009... HOW MUCH PROGRESS is really being made in securing storage? For several years now, pundits have sounded the alarm about a range of security risks associated with storage. That includes everything from a lack of fundamental network security...

Rise of the 'nanobots'.(Career Watch)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... No, they aren't those hypothetical molecular-scale robots that could someday be introduced into our bloodstreams to fix what ails us. These so-called nanobots are office workers, including some IT professionals. Or, more precisely, they are...

Why workers leave.(Career Watch)(Survey)(Brief article)
February 9, 2009... Executives were asked, "Which of the following is most likely to cause good employees to quit their jobs?" Here are their responses: 2009 2004 Unhappiness with management 35% 23%...

Tony Lee: the publisher of CareerCast.com and JobsRated.com discusses the sites' recent ranking of occupations, which put two IT jobs in the top 10.(Q&A)(Interview)
February 9, 2009... What sorts of criteria were used? To quantify the many facets of the 200 jobs included in our report, we determined and reviewed various critical aspects of all of the jobs, categorizing them into five core criteria - that is, the general...

True tales of it life as told to sharky.(SharkTank)
February 9, 2009... How It Works, Really Vendor sends this IT pilot fish a cheap digital camera as a "thank you" gift for sending business his way. And fish, who has never received any vendor gifts before, shows it to his boss to make sure everything is OK....

Crazy time.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)(Case overview)
February 9, 2009... TERRY CHILDS is in the news again. Remember Childs, that lone-wolf network administrator who worked for the city of San Francisco? In July 2008, he was arrested for refusing to tell his bosses the passwords to the city's high-speed network....

Philly blockbuster.(hearings against patent infringement )(Editorial)(Case overview)
February 16, 2009... IF A WINDSHIELD WIPER can inspire a major motion picture, then a computer cooling device is surely the stuff of Hollywood movies too. Perhaps you saw Flash of Genius, the film about Robert Kearns, inventor of the intermittent windshield...

Computers can't replace service 'magic'.(Letter to the editor)
February 16, 2009... Don Tennant's Editor's Note in the Jan. 26 edition ["Spirit of Service"] landed right in the bull's eye. I have been saying for years that places like Circuit City and Comp USA, which used to have very knowledgeable staff, are living in a dream...

Column on H-1B visas was wrongheaded.(Letter to the editor)
February 16, 2009... I totally disagree with Don Tennant's premise in his Feb. 2 Editor's Note, "Better Than That." H-1B visa holders do replace American workers and do hold down American wages. There are very significant numbers of foreign workers "legally"...

The week ahead.(briefs)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... MONDAY: The GSMA Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile-technology trade show, starts in Barcelona. Also opening: the Outsourcing World Summit in Carlsbad, Calif. TUESDAY: The Census Bureau is scheduled to issue its report on...

Microsoft gives Vista adoption one more push.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)
February 16, 2009... MICROSOFT CORP. last week made its best--and perhaps final--case as to why companies should consider upgrading to Windows Vista, even as successor Windows 7 looms on the horizon. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Gavriella Schuster, Microsoft's...

Downloads of Windows 7 beta come to an end.(SOFTWARE)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... AS PROMISED late last month, Microsoft Corp. last week shut off the Windows 7 beta spigot for users looking to test the software. Microsoft has not said when it will offer an updated build of Windows 7 to the public, although Steven...

Workers losing jobs at IBM get overseas option.(CAREERS)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... SOME OF the workers being let go by IBM in the U.S. and Canada have a chance to remain with the company--if they're willing to move to Brazil, India, China or a dozen other lower-wage countries. But the expatriate employees would likely be paid...

The Federal Aviation Administration.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... * The Federal Aviation Administration disclosed that personal data belonging to more than 45,000 employees and retirees was stolen after hackers broke into a computer server. The breach did not affect air traffic control systems.

Microsoft Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... * Microsoft Corp. last week released four February security updates, including patches for critical flaws in Exchange and Internet Explorer and a fix for a bug in SQL Server that was disclosed in December.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... * Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s shareholders have an extra week to vote on whether to spin off the firm's manufacturing operations because too few shares - 42% vs. the 50% required to reach a quorum - were voted at its stock-holder meeting last...

Former eBay Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... * Former eBay Inc. President and CEO Meg Whitman has taken a first step toward running for governor of California by creating an exploratory committee. Whitman co-chaired John McCain's presidential campaign.

Forensics firm finds private data on drives sold on eBay.(SECURITY)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... A NEW YORK computer forensics firm said that 40 of 100 hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained private information, including corporate financial data, DNS server information, and personal e-mail and photos. ...

Hackers attack antivirus firm's tech support site.(SECURITY)(Kaspersky Lab Ltd.)(Brief article)
February 16, 2009... AKASPERSKY Lab technical support site was hacked late last month, exposing private customer information for 11 days, the Moscow-based security company admitted last week. The company learned of and closed the breach on Feb. 7 after it was...