Monday, November 26, 2007

It must be real – 60 Minutes says so...

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9822842-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5

60 Minutes on TJX computer security

Posted by Michael Horowitz November 25, 2007 6:40 PM PST

I just finished watching Leslie Stahl do a piece called Hi-Tech Heist on 60 Minutes in which she describes the theft of credit card and other personal information from TJX. These are a couple quick Defensive Computing thoughts on the subject.



Again, because...

http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071126074016166

Data “Dysprotection:” breaches reported last week

Monday, November 26 2007 @ 07:40 AM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Breaches

A recap of incidents or privacy breaches reported last week for those who enjoy shaking their head and muttering to themselves with their morning coffee.

Source - Chronicles of Dissent



How about: “Trust, but verify?” Isn't this a case where the Judge is assuming all corporations are evil and CEOs are guilty until proven innocent?

http://ralphlosey.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/book-em-danno-hawaiian-judge-sanctions-company-for-trusting-its-top-officers-after-one-goes-tech-and-wipes-his-lap-tops-allegedly-to-hide-porn/

Book ‘em Danno”: Hawaiian Judge Sanctions Company for Trusting its Top Officers after One Wipes His Lap Tops, Allegedly to Hide Porn

A federal court in Hawaii recently imposed severe sanctions against a company for facilitating spoliation by trusting its top officers not to intentionally destroy evidence. In re Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., Debtor; Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. v. Mesa Air Group, Inc., 2007 WL 3172642 (Bkrtcy. D. Hawai’i, Oct. 30, 2007). Defendant’s Chief Financial Officer panicked after he received a litigation hold notice and wiped files from his lap tops. The plaintiff later claimed these files would have proved its case. The CFO said no, he was just trying to hide porn, but the judge didn’t believe him, and threw the book at ‘em instead.

... Big mistake, according to United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert F. Faris. The defendant should not have trusted its employees, even its top officers. It should have assumed they might disobey the hold notice and the law. Mesa should have assumed its people would respond to a hold notice by destroying evidence, not preserving it. It should not only have sent out a hold notice, it should have made backup copies of the hard drives of all of its employees who might have discoverable ESI on their computers. That way, if they responded to the hold notice by deleting incriminating evidence, the company would still have a backup copy of everything to produce to the other side. (For this strategy to work the company would have to make these copies in a stealth manner before the hold notice is sent.)



http://www.socialtext.com/node/317

What is Collaboration 2.0?

November 15, 2007 - 9:44pm

Jay Cross, a leading thinker on informal learning and Web 2.0, recently released an interesting paper on the state of collaboration. His firm Internet Time Group LLC has provided guidance to companies like Cisco, IBM, Sun, Genentech, Merck, Novartis, HP, among others.

This is particularly timely considering all the public debate right now about the future of online communications and social interactions following the Slate article on 'The Death of Email' or Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection blog post.

[Link to the paper: http://internettime.pbwiki.com/inatt2



Strategy? What strategy?

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/26/0643230&from=rss

More Evidence That XP is Vista's Main Competitor

Posted by Zonk on Monday November 26, @07:15AM from the xtc-vs-adam-ant dept. Windows Microsoft IT

Ian Lamont writes "Computerworld is reporting that Windows XP Service Pack 3 runs MS Office 10% faster than XP SP2 — and is 'considerably faster' than Vista SP1. XP SP3 isn't scheduled to be released until next year, but testers at Devil Mountain Software — the same company which found Vista SP 1 to be hardly any faster than the debut version of Vista — were able to run some benchmarking tests on a release candidate of XP SP3, says the report. While this may be great news for XP owners, it is a problem for Microsoft, which is having trouble convincing business users to migrate to Vista."



How to be hip? Includes that old favorite: Streisand effect I look up words my students use, but they are more often just mis-spellings...

http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/016633.html

November 25, 2007

Web Site Tracks New Words and Phrases Along With Definitions

"Word Spy is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases. These aren't "stunt words" or "sniglets," but new terms that have appeared multiple times in newspapers, magazines, books, Web sites, and other recorded sources."



Scrooge (pre-ghost visit) would like the idea! Even offers a few suggestions... (See next article)

http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/60446.html

Nothing Says Holiday Cheer Like Free Software

By Pam Baker LinuxInsider Part of the ECT News Network 11/26/07 4:00 AM PT

To save money this holiday season, you could break out the construction paper and rubber cement and make something really, um, nice; or you could take a quick cruise on the Web, download a few free applications, put them on a thumb drive and really make someone's holiday. It's your choice. No pressure. Put down the safety scissors, please.



And how could I not love this? Something for everyone?

http://digg.com/tech_news/Master_List_of_the_Best_101_Lists

Master List of the Best 101 Lists

Comprised of everything from Mozilla, CSS tips, Ubuntu, to freelancing and increasing traffic, and even some humorous links from some of the top sites on the net including Lifehacker and Problogger.

http://fresh-perspectives.net/2007/11/best-101-lists.html

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