Five IRS employees charged with snooping at tax records
Five employees in a California office of the Internal Revenue service have been charged with illegally accessing files of taxpayers. Read more...

Microsoft ballyhoos Vista's lower patch count

NASA moves to save computers from swarming ants

NATO to set up cyberwarfare center

Non-tech criminals can now 'rent a botnet'

Oklahoma State breach points to ongoing higher-ed security challenges

Oregon man admits selling pirated software on eBay

Study shows software piracy declining in many countries

Study: Comcast, Cox slowing P2P traffic around the clock

Tools circulate that crack Debian, Ubuntu keys

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How to improve disaster recovery plans
While disaster planning needs to be high on your to-do list, that doesn't mean you've got to bust your budget. And while virtualization often steals the spotlight, it's just one of the innovative tools now available to CIOs who are rethinking their disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.

Opinion: Choosing the right backup interface
Companies should focus on certain fundamental options, such as selecting a backup appliance with the right interface. Although de-duplication ratios and offsite replication are exciting, do not forget why you wanted disk to begin with -- to ensure successful backups in shorter times.

Review: Iomega Rev 120 -- Kicking the tape out of IT
While the Iomega drive sells for $500 and a five-pack of 120GB cartridges adds $325, cost isn't everything. Do you know of anyone who has a 5-year-old (let alone 30-year-old) external drive that still works?

WhitePages.com grapples with privacy in a Web 2.0 world
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes a look at how a simple concept like privacy gets complicated fast when development, authentication and millions of users enter the mix.

It's a hard-knock life: 3 rugged notebooks take a beating
Rugged notebooks are designed to stand up to abuse and come back for more. We dropped, drowned and shook these fully ruggedized notebooks to see if they could hold up. Not all survived.

Security goes to the movies: Iron Man
Time once again for "Security Goes to the Movies," a leisurely look at the inevitable bleeding from the eyes that security folk experience when Hollywood takes liberties with tech, the laws of physics and other aspects of reality. Our shiny and metallic subject today is Iron Man.

How not to improve backup performance
We all hate false tech advertising. And it's just as prevalent in backup as any other IT category. As good as LTO4 tape is, tape is difficult to keep streaming data to. In most designs, disk should be the initial backup target with tape technology on the back end.

Getting the Best From an Audit
Don't fear the audit. Learn from it. The important thing is that systems should be more secure in the end.

Opinion: Battling information-security Stockholm syndrome
Hating the PCI-DSS security standard when it exists only to help consumers and merchants is a sign that the security industry's not quite right in the head, says Ben Rothke.

Review: PC Tools ThreatFire 3.5 antivirus software
Now in version 3.5, this free utility adds an extra layer of protection to the security software you already have. It blocks an impressive number of threats through behavior-based analysis.

Specialists have retrieved about 99% of the data on a disk drive on board the crashed space shuttle Columbia. Don't miss the photographs of the recovered drive. These big ideas were supposed to revolutionize technology, but they never actually appeared. In a few cases, you'll be glad they didn't. Nearly 20 years after the first Internet worm, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes stock of the malware/anti-malware landscape and spotlights how the two sides are approaching the battle. Though some thought it was released too soon, Mac OS X 10.5 has matured into a solid operating system, says reviewer Michael DeAgonia.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

More Continuing Coverage After 9/11: Homeland SecurityAsk a Premier 100 IT LeaderBlackBerry Legal BattleData Security BreachesElectronic VotingFirefoxH-1B VisasHP's Boardroom ScandalHandheld DevicesHurricane Katrina AftermathMicrosoft Legal IssuesMicrosoft's VistaOpen SourceRFID TechnologySCO's Linux FightSarbanes-Oxley ActSpamVoice Over IPWi-FiWindows Meta File VulnerabilityWindows XP Service Pack 2

Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?

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