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Audit Committee Financial Experts

On January 23, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission published final rules requiring each public company board of directors to make a determination as to whether the company has an "audit committee financial expert" serving on its audit committee.

Tags: audit committee, audit, Reed Elsevier Inc.

White papers 2003-05-02

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Should free broadband be neutral?

A lot of politicians are bandying about the idea of licensing unused or underutilized radio frequencies to create a free, nationwide broadband network. As the US gets repeatedly dinged for a lack of broadband penetration, especially in the inner city and rural areas, an initiative like this would have...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Kaminsky and Ptacek comment on DNS flaw

Well, well, well, what a day for security news! I got a chance to get the scoop word of mouth from Dan Kaminsky of IOActive (pictured above [image courtesy of quinnums]) and Thomas Ptacek of Matasano pictured below on the DNS flaw that's been all over the...

Tags: DNS, Flaw, Nate, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

A Modest Privacy Proposal

The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow on Privacy Implications of Online Advertising. Appearing before the committee headed by long-time Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) are lawyers for Google and Microsoft, as well as Facebook's chief privacy officer -- and Robert R. Dykes, the chairman...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Internet Service Provider, Service Provider, Internet Service, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Business Services, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-07-08

ICANN says hijacking attack due to breach at their registrar

As we commented on, ICANN, the group that manages top-level domain TLD naming systems for the web, recently had several of its domains hijacked by a Turkish hacking group.  ICANN has now commented that the hijacking was due to a security breach at the registrar that manages those URLs.  From...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-08

ICANN says registrar was hacked

Two weeks after ICANN's own domains were hijacked by Turkish hackers, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers says it was its registrar -- not ICANN's servers themselves -- that were attacked. On June 26, a number of ICANN sites popped up with this message: ...

Tags: Registrar, ICANN, Attack, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Ticking bombs in enterprise land

I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna  where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...

Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Google trying to take privacy seriously

Google trying to take privacy seriouslyRE: Google trying to take privacy seriouslyThe whole thing is a legal can of worms which I did not see American judges opening. I hope this will be overturned for it has very serious implications all over the world.While the state may potentially be the...

Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc., privacy

Discussion threads 2008-07-05

I have to stop using Gmail :(

I have to stop using Gmail :(You can enable POP3 support in Gmail...If you switch on POP3 support in Gmail, then you can still comply with archiving procedures: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273That way, you can both send and receive e-mails with an e-mail client like Thunderbird or Evolution or even Outlook Express. I...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Using Gmail, Google Gmail, archiving, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Matasano ships Web-based firewall manager

The firewall is one of the few security tools that has been proven to be very effective at improving a company's security posture.  However, staying on top of policies  -- and responding to change requests -- while trying to manage multiple firewalls from different vendors can be a never-ending nightmare...

Tags: Web, Network, Matasano Security, Network Firewall, Playbook, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-02

What your own open source census can get you

What your own open source census can get youGood points DanaThis is a recurring theme. The IT group in a company are using open source for many projects, meanwhile the CIO doesn't think they need an audit or a governance plan because open source is not being used.I recently wrote...

Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

Google ships open-source Web security assessment tool

The Google security team has released a free, open-source Web app security assessment tool capable of flagging vulnerabilities and potential security threats in Internet-facing applications. The tool, called Ratproxy, is described as a passive Web application security audit tool designed to analyze legitimate, browser-driven interactions with tested Web...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Web Application, Web Security, Tool, Google Security Team, Productivity, Open Source, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-01

DEKSI Network Audit (exe)

DEKSI Network Audit provides a complete software and hardware inventory of all your network p.c.'s. DEKSI Network Audit is an extremely powerful, feature rich, advanced, but easy to use software system designed to provide network administrators with comprehensive and detailed reporting on all the software and hardware inventory installed on...

Tags: Software, Hardware, DEK Software, DEKSI Network Audit, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-06-30

Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership

Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadershipIt's GovernmentWhy should anybody put any effort into any government project. There is no penalty for failure. The pay checks keep on rolling.The oversight Congress are a bunch of self serving fossils, who for the most part are clueless.However, the public...

Tags: Six Sigma, Government, brain drain, bad leadership, CMMI, leadership

Discussion threads 2008-06-27

Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership

Many large-scale government technology initiatives are failing due to an exodus of qualified systems engineers away from the public sector to private industry. An in-depth analysis of the problem conducted by the National Research Council reveals the considerable impact of this problem. The...

Tags: Leadership, Systems Engineering, Computer, CAD, Productivity, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Embotics V-Commander 2.0

Management of virtualized resources appears to loom large in the thoughts of suppliers. The most recent supplier to present their view of how to regain control of the environment is Embotics. The company's V-Commander V2.0 was the topic of the day. Embotics insists that this product will help organizations with...

Tags: Data Center, Virtual Machine, Tool, Embotics V-Commander 2.0, Desktop Virtualization, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2008-06-27

Reformed computer criminals - your country needs you

And trust me, they really do. Over the last year, the UK and US Governments have had an awful problem in keeping basic data protection rules in check, almost to the point where they may have been broadcasting over the radio minutes of the intelligence committee meetings. ...

Tags: Computer, Hat Hacker, Productivity, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-26

PCAuditor (exe)

PCAuditor is a free, Personal, PC Audit and Inventory Tool. Based upon the powerful system scanning functionality of AssetStudio, PCAuditor, builds a detailed hardware and software inventory of your PC and displays the results in your Web Browser. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Software, PC, Certero, PCAuditor, Tools & Techniques, Desktops, Management, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-06-26

Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic

Lack of RFID standards leads to media panicActive vs. Passive RFID DevicesIn addition to the comments above, it was not clear from the article I read whether the researchers were testing only active RFID or both active and passive RFID. The author of the article I read also implied...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Dana, RFID, RFID Standards, media

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Microsoft ships free code auditing tools to thwart SQL injection attacks

Microsoft ships free code auditing tools to thwart SQL injection attacksSQLs failureSQL's #1 failure is its ailing concept that a single string is a sufficient API. Its stronger APIs are left in disuse by those who advocate this policy. Injection follows.I've never heard of a perl script falling...

Tags: Programming languages, Databases, Scripting languages, Scrawlr, auditing, Microsoft Corp., SQL, SQL injection

Discussion threads 2008-06-24