AT&T Investigating Copyrighted Material Network Filter

By mccoyt at 11:40 pm on January 17, 2008Comments Off on AT&T Investigating Copyrighted Material Network Filter

In one of the more interesting stories to come out of the telecom industry in recent weeks, the New York Times is reporting that AT&T is currently in the testing phases of developing a network filter that will monitor their networks for copyrighted content. The company is reportedly in talks with content owners such as NBC Universal regarding incentives for the company to filter copyrighted material.

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Microsoft announces Excel security flaw

By aodle56 at 7:50 pm on Comments Off on Microsoft announces Excel security flaw

According to vnunet.com, Microsoft recently announced they are actively investigating a potetially serious security flaw that targets Microsoft Excel 2003 users. Apparently, attackers can place malicious code in the Excel document header that executes upon opening the document. Upon excecution, the attacker gains access to the user’s machine under the permissions of the current user.

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GOA says “The IRS security still sucks”

By jimg at 12:37 pm on Comments Off on GOA says “The IRS security still sucks”

According to a report Tuesday from the Government Accountability
Office, sensitive taxpayer data housed at the IRS is critically
vulnerable to security threats. The report is a follow up from March
2006 where the security problems were initially discovered. The new
report indicates that 70% of the issues discovered in March remain.

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