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Part 1: Marcus Ranum on the state of information security
At Information Security Decisions 2009, Marcus Ranum begins his explication of the current state of computer security by taking a look at where it began.
Health Net breach failure of security policy, ...
OPINION - Investigators should question why an external hard drive contained seven years of data, but IT security should have had the appropriate security policies and technologies in place ...
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Top spammer jailed for stock fraud scheme
ARTICLE - Alan Ralsky, the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Spam," was jailed for his role in a stock fraud spam scheme.
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Study finds technology fails to reduce healthcare costs
ARTICLE - Digitalizing healthcare records and new health systems fail to cut costs, according to new research from Harvard University. Security and other management costs add up.
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