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Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Friday, January 30, 2009
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Microsoft: Next step for Windows 7 is a release candidate; P2P networks rife with sensitive health-care data, researcher warns
Computerworld Wrap-Up
January 30, 2009
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2. P2P networks rife with sensitive health-care data, researcher warns
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3. Microsoft warns that Vista, XP upgrade blockers set to expire
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4. NASA: Mars rover back on its feet; probe continues
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5. Hospitals with better IT have fewer deaths, study shows
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6. Nortel exits mobile WiMax business to focus on high-return technologies
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7. Verizon launches VoIP Hub for home users
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8. Microsoft charges ex-employee with spying
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9. How to make Windows XP last for the next seven years
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10. Robert L. Mitchell: D-Day: Verizon dumps landline business on FairPoint
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11. IT Blogwatch: Fannie Mae sabotaged?
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P2P networks rife with sensitive health-care data, researcher warns
Computerworld Security
January 30, 2009
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In this issue:
1. P2P networks rife with sensitive health-care data, researcher warns
2. Fannie Mae engineer indicted for planting server bomb
3. Former prosecutor: Mayor's plea for UFO hacker is off base
4. IT Blogwatch: Fannie Mae sabotaged?
5. Michael Horowitz: Autorun and Autoplay: screwed by terminology
6. Microsoft releases Web Sandbox under open source
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P2P networks rife with sensitive health-care data, researcher warns
Data leaks over P2P networks involving the health-care sector pose a significant
threat to patients, providers and payers, a study by a Dartmouth researcher
finds.
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Fannie Mae engineer indicted for planting server bomb
A former Unix engineer for Fannie Mae was indicted for planting malicious code
on the corporation's network that was to "destroy and alter" all of the data on
the company's servers this Saturday.
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Former prosecutor: Mayor's plea for UFO hacker is off base
A U.S. prosecutor criticized the mayor of London for his public plea to
President Barack Obama to drop efforts to extradite a man who admitted hacking
into U.S. government computers in 2001.
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IT Blogwatch: Fannie Mae sabotaged?
In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches a former Fannie Mae contractor
try to erase all its data. Not to mention how to write a book...
read more
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Michael Horowitz: Autorun and Autoplay: screwed by terminology
Many people are confused about Windows Autorun and Autoplay, even though they
may not know it. A large part of the confusion stems from terminology. Microsoft
uses the words to mean different things at different times and, perhaps most
importantly, has no terminology to describe important attack vectors.
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Microsoft releases Web Sandbox under open source
Microsoft has made source code for its Live Labs Web Sandbox project for
securing Web content through isolation available via open source under the
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