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Chinese hack into White House network
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| Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple
| occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US
| official told the Financial Times.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2931c542-ac35-11dd-bf71-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F2931c542-ac35-11dd-bf71-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1
Another Day, Another Big Data Breach
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| These days, it's probably best to just assume that any private data you've
| ever provided to a company is public. Given the pace at which the data you've
| entrusted to companies is leaked, whether via malicious hackers or via
| company carelessness, it's almost as if the exception to the rule is a
| company that's actually been able to keep your data safe. So it's hardly
| surprising that Express Scripts, the massive medical benefits management
| company, has said that its records appear to have been compromised.
| Apparently, the company was sent a note, detailing the medical records of
| about 75 people, with an extortion threat telling the company to pay up or
| face the exposure of millions of patient records.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081107/0125292766.shtml
"We should whack them (Dell over Linux dealings), we should make sure they
understand our value."
--Paul Flessner, MS Senior Vice President, Server Applications Unit
Recent:
Expert: White House Negligent on E-Mail
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| The White House e-mail troubles began in 2002 with a decision to upgrade
| electronic message capabilities and move from Lotus Notes to Microsoft
| Exchange.
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| Prior to launching Microsoft Exchange for e-mail, there should have been
| full-scale testing of an archiving system, e-mail experts said. In addition,
| both the existing archiving system and a new one should have run at the same
| time until the new system was fully proven.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080303/white_house_e_mail.html?.v=1
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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