Latest security news.
Google ‘frantic’ about Personalized Home Page glitch, 04/26/07: Google’s Personalized Home Page service, which lets users turn the Google Web site into a customized portal, is suffering from an apparently significant technical problem that is reverting some of the home pages to old versions or to their original default settings. Click here for more.
Latest Medicare computer-system glitch costing beneficiaries money, 04/26/07: Yet another glitch in Medicare system computers is starting to grab the attention of lawmakers. The latest problem involves Medicare taking extra money, sometimes for months in a row from beneficiaries’ Social Security checks, then not returning it in a timely fashion. Click here for more.
NY teen hacks AOL, infects systems, 04/26/07: A New York teenager broke into AOL LLC networks and databases containing customer information and infected servers with a malicious program to transfer confidential data to his computer, AOL and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office allege. Click here for more.
Alleged bomb threats aimed at pumping up 3Com stock, 04/26/07: An Iowa man was arrested this week for sending unarmed explosives and menacing letters to investment firms, with threats of actual violence if the firms did not act to raise 3Com’s stock price. Click here for more.
Entrepreneurial hackers buy sponsored links on Google, 04/26/07: A hacker scheme that involved buying search keywords on Google, then routing users to a malicious site when they clicked on sponsored links, was revealed Wednesday by a security company. Click here for more.
Disgruntled employees may seek IT revenge, 04/26/07: Of all the security vendors exhibiting at InfoSecurity in London this week, none claim they can detect a major threat to enterprises: unhappiness. Click here for more.
As Web 2.0 evolves, security becomes an issue, 04/25/07: Samy Kamkar was really just trying to impress girls. Instead he made Web hacking history. Kamkar created what is considered the first Web 2.0 worm – a virulent bug that could not be blocked by a firewall, and which ultimately forced the owners of MySpace.com to temporarily shut down the site. Click here for more.
15 bleeding-edge network research projects you should know about, 04/24/07: What are university and independent labs doing with the millions of dollars in funding they receive each year from government and other sources? Lots of them are working to solve current network problems and envision networks of the future. Click here for more.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?News Editor Bob Brown
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:
* 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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