Robert Lemos

For some tech chiefs, the Apple magic wears off. Here’s why one IT leader recently came back to the Windows world, after spending years on the Mac side.
CIO.com

The National Retail Federation sends a letter asking that its members be allowed to decide what credit-card data to keep.
SecurityFocus

The standard Sputnik story goes like this: It was the launch of this metal ball that forced the United States to elevate the pursuit of science. But that’s not quite true. Technically speaking, Sputnik was no more sophisticated than a cheap transmitter from Radio Shack attached to 120 pounds of batteries. It was the R-7 launch vehicle that scared the pants off the U.S. military. The Soviets proved they not only had a rocket with precise guidance systems, but one that could launch a heavier payload than anything the Americans had.
Wired News

A Congressional committee claims that Unisys allowed malicious code to infect federal systems.
SecurityFocus

Space industry executives lamented Wednesday that the United States will likely have to rely on other countries to send men, women and materials into space. The nation’s most visible launch vehicle, the space shuttle, will have its wings clipped in 2010, and current plans for a successor rocket to lift cargo and crew into orbit won’t come to fruition until at least 2015, when the first Ares rockets make it to the launch pad.
Wired News

The public will have to overcome its squeamishness about nuclear power, if current plans for space missions and manned outposts are ever to become reality, industry experts told attendees at the Space 2007 conference this week.
Wired News

Numerous account holders complained over the past year that the consumer brokerage had sold or leaked e-mail addresses to pump-and-dump spammers.
SecurityFocus

Federal prosecutors charge former security consultant Max Butler, better known amongst security researchers as “Max Vision,” alleging that he supplied and managed a ring of identity thieves.
SecurityFocus

The security researcher that posted the e-mail addresses and passwords for 100 accounts at embassies and political groups reveals that he exploited the victims’ incorrect usage of the Tor Project’s anonymous Web surfing software.
SecurityFocus

Twice in two weeks, the nation has been taken to task for breaching other nations’ systems, but officials continue to deny the accusations.
SecurityFocus