Heartland Payment Systems disclosed what may be largest payment data breach to date with over 100M cards being compromised. Apparently unknown intruders planted malicious software to steal data card information which was not detected until Visa and MasterCard alerted Heartland. Heartland’s public statement indicated that this may have been the
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Browser Wars Never End – The EU Accuses Microsoft of Antitrust Charges
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Reports that the EU regulators have now formally accused Microsoft of antitrust charges for including Internet Explorer as part of the Windows operating system is hardly a surprise. Apparently in December 2007 the Opera Software the Norwegian browser developed filed a complaint with the EU that Microsoft violated EU antitrust…
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Google Enters the e-Discovery Fray!!
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Google recently starting promoting a new service App they call Google Message Discovery which creates a new, huge change for e-Discovery. This service uses Postini which provides email filtering for hundreds of companies. When Google acquired Postini in 2007 many wondered what the heck’s going on? How did email filtering…
Conviction of Software Pirates in China is Significant
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A report that 11 people were convicted in China of violating Chinese copyright laws is most significant because of the cooperation and joint efforts between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and China’s Ministry of Public Security. These convictions are a good sign that software counterfeiters are risk which is…
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VIDEO- Protecting Personal Information
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A video about personal information was recorded in October, 2008 and was posted on WatchIT’s website which is one of many educational programs available. Please take a look to see which programs can help your business.
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Google Not Rated in Top 20 Most Trusted Companies
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A recent annual report from Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe ranks the top four most trusted companies as American Express, eBay, IBM, and Amazon. However Google did not make the top 20, yet Yahoo! and Facebook made the top 20 for the first time. This makes for interesting news, but given…
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Australian Legal Notice of Home Repossession Served on Facebook!
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An estimated 140 million folks use Facebook worldwide, but this is the first story about legal notice of a lawsuit through a social network. The law has never been fast to move, and there’s no reason to believe that any other country will adopt Facebook as a means of legal…
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Disturbing Headline! “U.S. not ready for cyber attack”
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Although not much of a surprise to read this headline that the US is not ready for a cyber attack and I guess Yogi Berra was right with his famous “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.” Clearly the September 11th attack was a wake-up call, but not a surprise that…
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Call Centers Relocate to the US
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Dell charges a premium for customers to call US based support, and other companies are relocating call centers to the US so that customer service agents will speak “American.” Apparently even though the economics make a great deal of sense for call centers to be based off-shore, there appear to…
Finally Pulitzer Prizes for Internet News!!!- What took so long?
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A recent report that the Pulitzer Prizes will now be accepting submissions from Internet publication is clearly a sign of the times, but what took so long? Without question there’s no rocket science to see that dramatic decline in newspaper publication. As someone who cannot let a day go by…
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