Members of the European Parliament have demanded to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the European Union's Data Protection Directive and the U.S. Patriot Act. The issue has been raised following Microsoft's admission last week that it may have to hand over...
Facebook has released specifications for their data center infrastructure as an open hardware project. They specifications include detailed electrical and mechanical data for everything from the server motherboards to the data center power distribution system. The specifications are licensed under a the Open Web Foundation Agreement. Via: Slashdot...
RSA, the Security Division of EMC Corp., said Thursday that information related to its SecurID two-factor authentication products was stolen in an "extremely sophisticated cyberattack" against the company. In an open letter to customers posted on the company's website, Art Coviello, RSA executive chairman, said RSA recently...
The federal government has launched a major effort to make governmental IT system safer, improve safeguards and raise awareness. Canada's cyber security strategy, announced in last spring's budget, will cost $90-million over five years and $18-million in ongoing funding. It aims to secure federal computer systems and join other governments...
IBM has made Firefox the company's default Web browser. According to IBM's vice president of Linux and open source software, company-wide Firefox adoption will accelerate IBM's shift to cloud computing. Via: ars technica ...
A joint study conducted by TELUS and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto surveyed more than 600 Canadian IT security professionals on Canadian IT security practices this year. The economic downturn has increased the risk organizations: “The threat environment worsens because when the...
Vancouver city council has endorsed the principles of making its data open and accessible to everyone where possible, adopting open standards for that data and considering open source software when replacing existing applications. More details on the announcement available at the Straight...
Techworld reports the following: The world's six largest computer drive makers have published the final specifications for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications. Read the full article at Techworld....
Technical problems with the license management servers at SonicWall Inc. created havoc last week for users of the company's firewall and e-mail security products, leaving many companies temporarily unprotected against spam, phishing and malware threats. The problems resulted in affected enterprise users of the SonicWALL UTM...
Microsoft today released a new Games for Windows Live update, which improves the interface. A separate update will arrive in two to three weeks, adding support for video, demos, and DLC downloads through a Marketplace application. Microsoft has definite plans to distribute full PC titles through...