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Award: SPJ’s Northern California Chapter’s Excellence in Journalism Award for Online In-Depth Reporting

November 1st, 2005 · No Comments

The SPJ Northern California chapter bestowed its Excellence in Journalism award for Online Depth Reporting to CNET News.com’s Digital Agenda: Homeland Security, of which Robert Lemos was a primary author.

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Tags: Awards · CNET News.com · Critical infrastructure · Security

Melissa’s long gone, but lessons remain

March 29th, 2005 · No Comments

It’s been six years since the Melissa macro virus first got loose, but security experts say network administrators and PC owners still have lessons to learn from it.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Security

Banks ordered to tell customers about breaches

March 24th, 2005 · No Comments

Four federal finance agencies have issued rules that force banks to tell customers when their personal data has been exposed.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Government

Mozilla fixes risky Firefox flaw

March 23rd, 2005 · No Comments

The Mozilla Foundation issued a patch for a major security flaw in its Firefox browser on Wednesday and advised people to update their software.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Security

Linux riskier than Windows?

March 22nd, 2005 · No Comments

Companies face greater risks if they run their Web sites on Linux rather than Windows, a Microsoft-funded study has concluded.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Security

‘Perfect storm’ for new privacy laws?

March 1st, 2005 · No Comments

A series of security break-ins is kick-starting a political drive to reshape federal laws that dictate how companies protect personal information–and what they have to do if that data leaks out.
With Declan McCullagh
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Tags: CNET News.com · Government · Privacy

Bank of America loses a million customer records

February 25th, 2005 · No Comments

A “small” number of backup tapes with records detailing the financial information of government employees were lost in shipment to a backup center, Bank of America said on Friday.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Cybercrime · Privacy

Limp Bizkit porn leak could lead to Hilton hacker

February 25th, 2005 · No Comments

A celebrity porn deal gone bad could be the key to cracking the T-Mobile hacking case, publicity professional David Hans Schmidt said Friday.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Cybercrime · Privacy

Firms give flaws a grade

February 15th, 2005 · No Comments

With an eye to guiding companies on which software problems to patch first, Cisco Systems, Symantec and Qualys plan to launch a joint grading system for security vulnerabilities.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Flaws and vulnerabilities · Open Source · Security

Interview: Robert Liscouski, Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

January 26th, 2005 · No Comments

Robert Liscouski doesn’t hesitate to explain why he’s leaving the Department of Homeland Security: He pledged two years, and time’s up. Liscouski thus becomes the latest high-ranking cybersecurity official to leave the DHS, where protecting the U.S. information infrastructure made up only part of his duties.
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Tags: CNET News.com · Government · Security