The former IT systems analyst who was in possession of backup tapes and disks before they were stolen out of his parked van has sued the Providence Health System over his firing.
The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) has opened membership to technology companies and systems integrators. TSCP, a government-industry partnership for the aerospace-and-defense (AD) industry, addresses security issues related to online collaboration, identity federation and digital rights management.
Nonprofit GreatSchools.net, which provides parents with information about schools, has deployed application traffic management and load-balancing software from Zeus Technology. The products will enable the site, which receives about 30 million page views each month, to manage performance through application demand and bandwidth usage.
The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a global trade group representing the IT industry, has opened an office in Bratislava, Slovakia. The association now has offices or representatives in 16 locations around the world, in regions that support 97 percent of the IT industry.
Sony, which suffered through a rootkit debacle in 2005, is at it again, according to one prominent anti-virus vendor. Researchers at F-Secure have discovered a rootkit on another Sony product, the Sony MicroVault USM-F fingerprint reader.
Author and prominent IT security expert Winn Schwartau has formed a nonprofit organization to provide cybersecurity certification programs for end-users.
Security experts are advising users of MSN Messenger to be wary of untrusted web cam conversations after exploit code was posted today for a zero-day vulnerability in the instant messaging (IM) application.
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