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Katrina victims at risk of ID theft

Katrina victims at risk of ID theftNo Sh_t Sherlock...Ok, who stayed up all night just wondering how much more gloom and doom they could add to the Katrina disaster.... ? Come on now ... a show of hands...Yes there probably will be a lot of Identity theft as it seems...

Tags: Food & Beverage, identity theft, KATRINA VICTIMS

Discussion threads 2005-09-09

Katrina shows need for e-health records

With no medical records available for the vast majority of Katrina victims, the work of medical practioners has been made immeasurably more difficult, Mike Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services, told an e-health conference today, Government Health IT reports. “If there was ever a case for [electronic...

Tags: health, Katrina Victims, e-health

Blog posts 2005-09-08

Red Cross, XM team up for Katrina victims

Red Cross, XM team up for Katrina victimsThis is great, but we need to have this kind of thing in place BEFOREsomething happens so that we can be up and running the day after or even the day of, not 10 days after.Did you hear our stupid president is giving...

Tags: Team management, KATRINA VICTIMS, Red Cross, XM Satellite Radio Inc., team

Discussion threads 2005-09-07

Additional Resources

Easing the SaaS-to-cash cycle

Easing the SaaS-to-cash cycleCredit crunchMonetization of services becomes all the more critical in these times. As volumes increase operational efficiency becomes critical. At eVapt we therefore go beyond allowing service providers to plug in eVapt billing and payment capabilities. We allow users to scale and automate collection and analysis...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, SaaS IS, SaaS-to-cash, software-as-a-service

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Apple wins royalty rate showdown

Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...

Tags: Apple wins royalty rate showdown, RIAA, royalty rate showdown, piracy, Apple Wins, music, showdown, MPAA, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Welcome to the White Space

The Wireless Innovation Alliance (brought to you by Google, Micosoft, Motorola, Public Knowledge, etc.) has produced an excellent video on the benefits of white spaces as part of the Google-led lobbying campaign. Among the arguments, according to the video: Unused spectrum has a large...

Tags: Video, Wi-Fi, Corporate Communications, Wireless, Marketing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users

Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of userssmalkl little people who hack and use the same escuseTypical idiot cop :)Wow...Way to stereotype. Lemme guess - you're ex-military, with a crew cut, nasty cigar and a stick up your arse? Does that sound fair? What? That doesn't describe...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Channel management, SECURITY, Bill O'Reilly, attacker, Web site, Web

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Bill O'Reilly's web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users

In what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O'Reilly's BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site's members already leaking across Internet forums, as a response to his remarks regarding Wikileaks as a...

Tags: Web, Password, Attacker, Web Site, Member, BillOreilly.com, Wikileaks, E-mail, Web Site Development, Security, Online Communications, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Why IT mergers fail

Why IT mergers faileds hp lay offsTry employing writers that can count.24600 lay offs 50% will be in the USA so 12300 out 47,000 is ~25%.SidetrackThe gain from a Hurd/Fiorina style merger is easy to comprehend, Murph. Combine two companies and lay off a slew of people. All...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, information technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., merger, Electronic Data Systems Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-24

Targeted malware attack against U.S schools intercepted

Timing is everything, and from a cybercriminal's perspective, a new school year means segmenting their email databases to launch a targeted attack welcoming everyone back online. According to MessageLabs Intelligence : "Starting in early September, MessageLabs intercepted a targeted, email-borne malware attack on US schools and government organizations, a...

Tags: Malware, Social Engineering, Attack, E-mail, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-09-17

The real life cost of trying to ignore nature

The real life cost of trying to ignore natureLet people decide what to do with their property... and then, when Mother Nature disagrees, give them the choice of letting Uncle Sugar have the title in return for emergency aid, or else toughing it out like the rugged individualists that they...

Tags: Policies and procedures, accident, bill people, real life cost, life cost, tax payer, insurance, rescue

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?

Drill, baby, drill...but will the sun shine as well?administrationya u need a new job since you continue to work writing stupid stuff and implying the wrong info "Palin administration" But i understand whom you work for is nothing more then liars.GET A REAL JOB - EARN honest moneyIke Relief Tack...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Taxes, job, Democratic leadership, Palin, tax, oil company

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

The real life cost of trying to ignore nature

Down along the Texas Gulf Coast this week, man's arrogance has been hard hit by Ike. Even the Texas land commissioner is now muttering about things like zoning and building restrictions. I hope that guy has secret service level protection. Them's fightin' words down in the Lone...

Tags: Texas, Beach, State Legislature, Land Guy, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Leaked Homeland Security doc warns of data threats

A memo from the US Department of Homeland Security has recommended that corporate and government leaders do not travel with mobile equipment carrying sensitive information. A document emphasizing mobile-data security threats has appeared online after being leaked from the US Department of Homeland Security. The...

Tags: Document, Mobile, Homeland Security, Spokesperson, Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk, security, travel

News items 2008-09-16

Porn passed over as Web users become social--author

Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru. CANBERRA--Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to...

Tags: Web, Social Networking Site, Internet, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Reuters, social networking, Bill Tancer

News items 2008-09-16

Unwilling veterans of 9-11

Unwilling veterans of 9-11Comparing the victims of 911 to ....... veterans is a disservice to veterans. Don't get me wrong, what happened was terrible but the actual event lasted only a few hours. Our veterans experienced a little longer exposure don't you think. I think you are...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care

Discussion threads 2008-09-11

Unwilling veterans of 9-11

In the victims and witnesses of 9-11 we have a group of people unique in our history. They are veterans in the most basic sense of the term -- they have been to war. But they are stuck in the same private health system the rest of us use. by...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Health Care, VA, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-11

Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer?

Is Google Chrome an IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer?Splintering of non IE usersI suspect that this in fact will cause an immediate splintering of non IE users (causal users and ones that are anti-MS). Furthermore there is only so many OSS developers and now a bunch of them are basically replicating the Mozilla...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome, Google Inc., IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari, IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari killer, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

MSN Norway serving Flash exploits through malvertising

Morten Krakvik from the Norwegian Honeynet Project is reporting that MSN Norway is among the latest victims of malvertising, a practice where a bogus advertising provider tricks leading portals into accepting advertisements from its network, which often end up redirecting to live exploit URLs. The recent wave of malvertising that...

Tags: MSN, Advertisement, Portals, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Taiwan busts hacking ring, 50 million personal records compromised

Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau CIB has successfully tracked down and arrested six people in what the CIB believes to be the biggest personal data breach in Taiwan to date. Apparently, the group also managed to obtain personal data on Taiwan's current and former presidents : "The suspects are believed...

Tags: Taiwan, Hacking, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-27