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New worm wriggles around on Skype, 04/16/07
A worm targeting Skype’s VoIP application is harvesting e-mail addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software, security vendors said Monday.
Should Apple secure its iPods?, 04/16/07
Few corporations are likely to ban iPods in the workplace, but whether Apple and other manufacturers of MP3 players shoulder some responsibility to add security to their devices — and how effective that security would be – is a growing debate.
IRS warns of tax phishing scheme, 04/16/07
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers to be wary of e-mail messages that provide links to supposedly free tax-filing services endorsed by the agency.
Watchfire online community shares vulnerability testing knowledge, 04/16/07
Watchfire is opening up its Web application-vulnerability software so customers can create their own security tests of corporate applications.
ConSentry gear controls net access for Baltimore hospital, 04/16/07
As it sets up a network access control infrastructure to run herd on the wide range of transient workers who have legitimate needs to access its network, Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore has bumped into business challenges that are proving more difficult than the technical ones.
Survey: Gov’t CISOs say FISMA can be improved, 04/13/07
The annual release of cybersecurity grades are helping to improve U.S. government security, but the law the grades are based on needs to be more specific, U.S. agency chief information security officers said in a survey.
Top 10 IT priorities at the DoD, 04/13/07
The U.S. Department of Defense is expected to spend an estimated $23.5 million this year on IT — the most of any federal agency — according to market research firm Input.
Secret Lurking Security Threats, 04/16/07.
Did you know the Coke machine in the employee lounge could be a security threat? Endpoint security no longer means just the desktops and notebooks, it’s a whole range of connected devices and systems. Mark Kadrich (pictured), author of “Endpoint Security”, speaks with Keith Shaw about the hidden spots within a company that are vulnerable, and how to create a defense strategy. (12:55) (To download onto your MP3,
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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