S.C. faults IRS standard in massive data breach

Computerworld Security: November 21, 2012
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S.C. faults IRS standard in massive data breach

South Carolina's governor faulted an outdated Internal Revenue Service standard
as a contributing factor to a massive data breach that exposed Social Security
numbers of 3.8 million taxpayers plus credit card and bank account data.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Security firm finds SCADA software flaws; won't report them to vendors
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2. Sen. Leahy has not caved on e-privacy, aide says
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3. AT&T iPad hacker plans to appeal felony conviction
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Security firm finds SCADA software flaws; won't report them to vendors

Malta-based security start-up firm ReVuln claims to be sitting on a stockpile of
vulnerabilities in industrial control software, but prefers to sell the
information to governments and other paying customers instead of disclosing it
to the affected software vendors.
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Desktop Total Cost of Ownership: Gartner Research

Declining hardware and software costs have an impact on total cost of ownership
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desktops can achieve lower TCO and improved user productivity.

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Sen. Leahy has not caved on e-privacy, aide says

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has not reversed course on
email privacy and has not proposed to give U.S. agencies access to email and
other electronic communications without search warrants, despite a news report
to the contrary, an aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy said Tuesday.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8331270/823929835/591323/0/

AT&T iPad hacker plans to appeal felony conviction

A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad
users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony
charges.
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Now THAT'S a help desk with standards

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