Obama's Cybersecurity Push: What It Means for CIOs
Happy Birthday, America. We're not as safe as we think. From the electricity grid to the banking system to the defense contractors building our most sophisticated weapons, computers running the nation's critical infrastructure see relentless attacks from criminals and countries alike. Sometimes we hear about it, sometimes we don't.
Top tech execs call on Obama to consider open-source
A group of prominent open source industry executives have issued an open letter to President Obama highlighting the critical role open-source software could play in the government sector.
Mobile computing gets a psychological boost
A couple days ago Barack Obama's BlackBerry once again made news when he dropped it on the ground and a secret service guy scrambled to pick it up. Later, Obama told CNN that he planned to "hang onto" the device.
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Sites claiming President-Elect Barack Obama will refuse to take the oath of office Tuesday are serving up attack code believed to be programmed by the same hackers responsible for the notorious Storm
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Microsoft's Silverlight has been chosen for the live streaming of Obama's inauguration on Tuesday.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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