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Oct. 18: A UK housing Association, the Network Housing Group, discloses it has launched an internal investigation into the accidental e-mailing to some 300 staff of a spreadsheet containing information on its employees' sexuality, ethnicity and disability status Upcoming Secur...

The point is, SMBs get attacked -- and more often than you might think -- which means they need to worry about security just as much as larger firms. Challenges abound, however: SMBs might have fewer technology staff than larger organizations, they may also find that getting budget for security tools isn't always easy, and the inaccurate perception of reduced need makes business cases for specialized tools hard to pull off...

"We are currently in the process of providing comments on the bill to Chairman Issa's staff, but I can say that legislation that addresses CIO authorities and codifies data center consolidation efforts could be helpful in furthering the key IT reform efforts," David Powner, director of information technology management issues at GAO, told the E-Commerce Times...

Folks who believed Apple was a success were more likely to invest in it and buy its products, thus creating a self-fulfilling sequence. (It is also no secret that former IBM CEO Louis Gerstner put much of his initial effort into corporate marketing funding and staffing early on.)

"You don't deal with the whims and changing views of the public," he noted, "but you deal with corporate IT staffs." IBM revitalized itself as a service company, White pointed out, and "HP can do that as well."

CRM is a mature software category with a decades-plus history of development and evolution. Still, one important problem remains unsolved: A lot of employees, especially sales staff, just can't be bothered with it Corporate "solutions" have ranged from bribing to arm-twisting ...

That's a situation that can be addressed in a few ways. First, you can strive to equip every employee with an encyclopedic knowledge of all your customers and all your product information. Sadly, most of us can't hire entire staffs of supergeniuses with photographic memories.

The US-CERT and SANS Institute have assembled best practices related to the creation of an incident response team. This carefully selected group should, in addition to security and general IT staff, include representatives from legal, human resources, and public relations departments...

IBM designed this package with that in mind. "A lot of MSPs don't have staff to really focus on these kinds of services," he pointed out As part of the offering, IBM is also launching new Global Centers of Excellence in Shanghai; Tokyo; Ehningen, Germany; and New York City. T...

however, there "is no evidence that Google is blocked throughout the country," Jillian York, a staffer at theElectronic Frontier Foundation, said. "My contacts say the blocking of Google search is sporadic across ISPs, but Gmail is fairly consistent." Ayatollahs No Fans of Goo...

"This particular app is a prime candidate of the types of services that can be vulnerable to Net neutrality violations because they offer a substitute to the voice telephony services that AT&T and other wireless carriers offer," Jodie Griffin, staff attorney with Public Knowledge, told the E-Commerce Times...

"This particular app is a prime candidate of the types of services that can be vulnerable to Net neutrality violations because they offer a substitute to the voice telephony services that AT&T and other wireless carriers offer," Jodie Griffin, staff attorney with Public Knowledge, told the E-Commerce Times...

"What we heard in the responses from IT operations staff was that they were either not seeing succession planning in their areas of their agencies, or the SP they did see was not tied to the agency's strategic initiatives," said Bob Clarke, an executive with ASPE and the ACT-IAC project lead for the survey.

"If you have all volunteer people and limited funding, then plan around that," he advised. "All EOCs have similar functions -- just with differences in scale, staffing and equipment. We wanted to mimic a bigger EOC, but it seemed near impossible, so we just made everything smaller and simpler, and then grew as we learned."

Sept. 3: Three UK police websites breached and email addresses, account passwords of staff working on Safer Neighborhoods program posted on Web by hacker who claims to support WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Sept. 3: Reports identify the Vatican as victim of Admin.HLP keylogg...

HDMI is the kind of connection that you see on televisions, and VGA is the kind youusually see on computer monitors. Newer multimedia projectors have both ports. Olderprojectors only have VGA. Ask the event management staff what kind they have Tablets vary in their connectivit...

Oracle acted swiftly last week to close a zero-day vulnerability in its Java technology, but given Java's track record, that patch is just one hit in a long game of wackamole played with hackers ...

In-person training and a support website were provided by the library staff. Some of the apps loaded on the iPads included textbooks not currently available via library subscriptions on various platforms; specific information-retrieval apps such as Pubmed on Tap, Micromedex and DynaMed; patient education apps; and a patient log app such as Drchrono, which served the students as a transportable Electronic Health Record...

But a greater percentage of civilian workers gave the cloud the next-highest score in terms of "importance" than did defense staff. The survey was conducted in April and results were released in early August. Given seven categories of potential investment levels for the clou...

For example, the business PC revolution started when LOB workers, tired of datacenter-centric IT staff and managers having all the fun, lugged their home PCs into the office. Once considered little more than playthings compared to scale-up Unix systems, scale-out x86 servers are now standard platforms for supporting the most demanding business processes. VMware, which started life building tools that allowed developers to run multiple OSs and applications on single workstations, has since become the top vendor of x86-based virtualization solutions and is helping to lead both its customers and the greater industry to the cloud.