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2008.10.09: Smile, You May be On Hackers Candid Camera
2008.10.08: Don't Steal This Cactus
2008.10.08: Computer System "Irregularity" Cited in Qantus Aircraft Emergency
2008.10.08: NIH to Study 100,000 Children's Health From Birth Until Age 21
2008.10.07: Financial Crisis Starts to Bite IT Industry
2008.10.06: Here's To Spying on You
2008.10.06: Australian Airline Jetstar Hit by Computer Failure
2008.10.03: E-Health Problems in Victoria Australia
2008.10.03: Spying on Skype Users in China
2008.10.01: Right on Queue: UK Government Loses More Sensitive Data
2008.09.30: Precursor to Election Day Confusion?
2008.09.28: Rockwell Collins' 75th Birthday
2008.09.26: AT&T, Verizon Agree Not To Spy On You (Unless You Want Them To)
2008.09.26: ATC Software Problem Hits UK Airports
2008.09.25: Electronic Markets Went Off Rails Last Week
2008.09.25: GPS Helps Cause Traffic Jams in Ireland
2008.09.23: IBM to Quit Standard Bodies? Bluff or the Real Deal?
2008.09.23: Software Problems Continue to Plague Sydney Tunnel
2008.09.22: We Don't Need No Stinking Landlines
2008.09.21: Gov. Palin Hack Exposes Email Vulnerabilities
2008.09.19: UK NHS Changes Privacy Rules fo Electronic Health Records
2008.09.17: Fighting Robots as a Future Career Opportunity?
2008.09.16: Countrywide Customer Data Sold
2008.09.16: Virginia Spam Law Is Overturned
2008.09.15: CERN's Large Hadron Collider Hacked
2008.09.15: Software Problem Halts ANA Flights in Japan
2008.09.12: SEC Opens Prelim Investigation Into United Airline Stock Drop
2008.09.10: London Stock Exchange Shutdown Caused By Software Problem
2008.09.10: Companies Buying Up IHateYou.com Sites
2008.09.09: How Much Insight Into Our Childrens' Lives is Too Much?
2008.09.08: School Day Opening Blues
2008.09.08: London Heathrow 777 Crash Update: Ice Likely the Cause
2008.09.07: Guess What? Yet Another UK Government Lost Data Disk!!
2008.09.04: Dr. Michael Hammer Passes Away at 60
2008.09.04: How to Turn Brits into Guyanese
2008.09.03: HSBC Bank USA Promises to Make Customers Whole Again
2008.09.02: London Stock Exchange Resets Time is Money Equation
2008.09.02: Mellon Bank Ups Data Breach Number by 8 Million
2008.08.29: Space Station Computer Virus
2008.08.28: J. Crew Store Website Glitch Hits Bottom Line
2008.08.27: Another Computer Bought on eBay Holds UK Taxpayer Information
2008.08.27: Software Problem Halts US Flights
2008.08.26: Computer Bought On eBay Contains 1M Bank Customer Records
2008.08.25: Jail Scam Victims?
2008.08.22: Yet Another Major UK Government Data Loss
2008.08.21: Thumb Drive Security Peril at US Justice Department
2008.08.21: FEMA Phones Hacked
2008.08.21: New Voting Machine Sleeping Arrangements In Ohio
2008.08.21: MIT Students Free To Publish Security Paper
2008.08.19: Computerized Physician Order Entry Software Design Flaw in New Zealand
2008.08.19: Student Records Exposed on Web
2008.08.18: The Future Price of Driving?
2008.08.15: Heathrow Baggage Problems Again - This Time at Terminal 3
2008.08.14: Netflix is NixFlix
2008.08.14: Cyber Warfare In Georgian Conflict? Maybe
2008.08.13: Another Fare Card Rip-off
2008.08.12: Spying on You Without Consent
2008.08.12: COBOL Confounds California
2008.08.11: How Do You Create an £8 million IT Project? Start With an £819,000 Project
2008.08.10: Not Nice to Expose Hacks, MIT Students Told
2008.08.07: Dunkin' Donuts Scammed for over $100Gs
2008.08.06: Pentagon Unveils New Unmanned Spokesdrone
2008.08.06: 40 Million Credit and Debit Card Numbers Stolen
2008.08.05: Snooping into EHRs Continues At UCLA Medical Center
2008.08.05: Circuit City Can't Take a Joke
2008.08.04: The "Commodification" of Electronic Medical Records
2008.08.01: Dismal State of Information Technology in US Government
2008.07.31: Software Bug KO's American's Baggage System at JFK
2008.07.30: The Metros' Summer Time Blues
2008.07.30: Software Problem Leads to BP Over-charges
2008.07.29: Are You a Textwalker? It May Become Illegal in Illinois
2008.07.28: Qantas Has Baggage System Problems of its Own
2008.07.28: 911 System in Virginia Disrupted Multiple Times
2008.07.28: Florida's $308 Million Medicaid Computer System Fouls Up
2008.07.24: Tokyo Stock Exchange Has Yet Another Hiccup
2008.07.23: CSX Loses Network: Trains Delayed on East Coast
2008.07.22: Do You Believe the Computer or the Boyfriend?
2008.07.22: UK MoD Loses Control of Fifteen Laptops a Month
2008.07.21: Get IT Skills or Else, Comrade Official
2008.07.21: Fiber Optics Fun In the Land of Oz
2008.07.18: Happy Birthday, Intel!
2008.07.17: I've Got a Ticket to Read
2008.07.16: Boeing 787 Dreamliner: Brake Software Issue
2008.07.15: Computer Engineer Hijacks San Francisco's Computer Network
2008.07.15: Virus Hits Major Seattle Newspapers
2008.07.15: DC Metro Posts Employees Personal Data on Website
2008.07.14: Smart Parking In San Francisco
2008.07.10: GPS for Crime Fighting
2008.07.10: Flat Panels a Growing Global Warming Threat?
2008.07.08: UK IT Graduates Less Employable Than Art & Science Majors?
2008.07.08: Australian Bank Glitch Causes Problems
2008.07.08: Telstra Fails to Hit Customer Migration Target
2008.07.07: New E-Prescribing Network Formed
2008.07.07: Credit Cards for 11-year-olds
2008.07.04: Playing I Spy at the State Department
2008.07.03: 12,000 Laptops Lost Per Week at Airports?
2008.07.02: Moody's Ethics Error
2008.07.01: Data Breaches Soaring?
2008.06.30: Software Problems Close Tunnel in Sydney for Fifth Time
2008.06.30: Faulty Software In Medical Devices
2008.06.25: Brain Drain Hurting US Defense
2008.06.24: Wisconsin Drivers Get Whacked By Illinois Toll System
2008.06.24: Medicare Officials Don't Want to Scare Seniors
2008.06.23: Think What the OSS Could Have Done with Office IT Systems
2008.06.20: Sainsbury's On-Line Problems Cost It At Least $2M
2008.06.19: Electronic Health Record Usage in the US Still Low
2008.06.17: Let the Baggage Wars Begin
2008.06.16: UK Designing Sat Nav Sign for Truck Drivers
2008.06.13: BA CIO Apologizes for Terminal 5 Problems
2008.06.12: February 18th 2009 Could Be An Interesting Day
2008.06.12: Blocking Spam on Your Cellphone
2008.06.11: Who Might Be Spying on You?
2008.06.09: Software Update Brings Down Nuclear Power Plant
2008.06.09: Bad Data into Computers Caused B-2 Crash
2008.06.06: Dare to Fly Derrie-Air?
2008.06.05: "One of the incompetent procurements of all time."
2008.06.05: Congress Pushing for Medicare E-Prescribing
2008.06.04: OECD Releases International Internet Security Report
2008.06.03: California Pharmacies to Sell Patient Data?
2008.06.03: Walter Reed's Medical Data Hacked
2008.06.02: How Do Investors Value Open Source Software?
2008.05.30: Hacked Laptop Causing Concern in US Government
2008.05.29: Fujitsu Bails Out of UK Electronic Health Record System
2008.05.28: Nigerian Scammers Targeting Australians
2008.05.27: IT Budget: Low Hanging Fruit to Pluck?
2008.05.26: Does the Internet Promote Sports Cheating?
2008.05.26: Electronic Health Records: How Much Do They Really Save?
2008.05.23: Software Unhorses Derby Bettors
2008.05.23: Users Put Headlock on LifeLock
2008.05.21: Moody's Software Rating Bug Gives Credit Where Credit Isn't Due
2008.05.21: CCTV Doesn't Reduce Crime in UK
2008.05.20: Google Gagga Over Personal Health Records
2008.05.20: Lawsuit Comet Hits Project Jupiter
2008.05.19: Spam's 30th Anniversary
2008.05.19: Robotic Suit for the Army Being Tested
2008.05.18: Japan, Like US, Suffering From Rikei Banare
2008.05.16: The Crazy Ants That May Eat NASA
2008.05.16: Airbus Announces Delays in A380
2008.05.16: Software Susses Sham Sickness
2008.05.14: Kaiser Permanente Rolls Out Electronic Health Record System
2008.05.13: 2006 Jeep Commanders Recalled for Software Flaw
2008.05.13: London Heathrow Boeing 777 Crash Update
2008.05.12: The Software Issues Behind Heathrow's T5 Meltdown
2008.05.11: Fun With Windows
2008.05.08: Your Face as Password
2008.05.08: Don't Do Software Updates in Prime Time
2008.05.08: HM Revenue and Customs Taxpayer Snooping
2008.05.08: More Airbus 380 Troubles?
2008.05.07: Virginia Pilots Web Safety Courses for Kids
2008.05.06: Practice Safe Computing - Or Else
2008.05.06: Heathrow Terminal 5 Better But Still Has Problems
2008.05.05: Livermore Lightbulb is 107
2008.05.05: Robo-Squirrel Tries to Gain Acceptance With Locals
2008.05.02: Italy Posts All Taxpayer Income on the Web
2008.05.02: DNA Non-discrimination Bill Passes
2008.05.01: Mortgage Data Disclosed
2008.05.01: Hannaford Tightens Credit Card Security
2008.05.01: High Costs of Satellites Impeding Future Communications?
2008.04.30: 2 Million University of Miami Patient Records Stolen
2008.04.29: Indictment in UCLA Medical Record Snooping
2008.04.29: SSA Plans (Again) to Reduce its 36 Million Lines of COBOL
2008.04.28: Stolen Pilot's Laptop Causes Security Concerns
2008.04.28: DNA Non-Discrimination Bill Moves Forward
2008.04.28: IRS IT Improvement Speeds Rebate Checks
2008.04.25: Hey, I Just Won a Million Pounds!
2008.04.24: Want a $400,000 IT Job?
2008.04.24: Congrats to Baker College for Winning Cyber Defense Competition
2008.04.23: Thank Goodness for Photoshop?
2008.04.22: Australian and UK Health IT Program Problems
2008.04.22: Phishing for CEOs
2008.04.21: Heathrow Terminal 5 Update: Only a Few Bags Being Lost
2008.04.21: DNA To Predict Your Future Behavior?
2008.04.18: Georgia Health Insurance Records On Web For Weeks
2008.04.18: UK Child Database to Track Chaotic Lifestyles
2008.04.17: GAO: Software Causes Defense Cost & Schedule Problems
2008.04.16: Hacking Economics: Prices of Stolen Data Continue to Drop
2008.04.16: Heathrow's Baggage Blame Game
2008.04.16: Ada Still Lives On
2008.04.15: Taxdueday Headaches for LAUSD Employees
2008.04.15: Less Punishment for Doctors Who Snoop In Electronic Medical Records?
2008.04.14: British Airways Burns Other Airlines and Lost Luggage
2008.04.14: RFID Attacks Liquor Shrinkage
2008.04.14: Wanted: Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Fingerprints
2008.04.10: Patient Information Accessed From Old Computers in Oz
2008.04.09: Computer Science AB Advanced Placement Course Bites the Dust
2008.04.08: Data Fusion Centers Mushroom
2008.04.07: UK Bank Loses Customer Data Disc Holding 370K Records
2008.04.07: Electronic UCLA Medical Records Breach Larger Than First Reported
2008.04.05: British Airways Back to Normal: Terminal 5 Baggage System Down Again
2008.04.04: Census: Going Back to Paper Due to "Lack of Communication"
2008.04.02: Air Force To Study Newly Discovered Flying Penguins for Stealth Characteristics
2008.04.02: RFID Ecosystem Project : RFID Use in Our Future May Not Be Pretty
2008.04.01: H-1B Visa Sweepstakes Starts Today
2008.03.31: Heathrow's Terminal 5's Never Ending Story
2008.03.31: Australia: Can Anyone Tell Me What Time It Is?
2008.03.31: IBM Suspended From Federal Contracts?
2008.03.31: Sainsbury's Good IT News
2008.03.29: Heathrow's Terminal 5 Problems Continue On
2008.03.29: Hannaford Breach: A Potential Sea Change in Attack Approach
2008.03.28: Heathrow Terminal 5: A Bit Shambolic
2008.03.27: More Peeking at Passports at State Department?
2008.03.27: Heathrow Baggage Meltdown Again - At New Terminal 5
2008.03.25: Those Pesky Medical Records Privacy Requirements
2008.03.24: That Didn't Take Long: Hannaford Sued Over Data Breach
2008.03.23: Manipulating the London Stock Market for Fun & Profit
2008.03.22: Possibly Coming to a Phone Near You
2008.03.21: UK Gov E-Crime Unit Too Expensive at $2 million
2008.03.21: Sen. Obama's Passport Data Improperly Accessed
2008.03.20: V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Needs a New Pair of Shoes (err, Engines)
2008.03.20: The Australian Seasprite Story Ends
2008.03.18: Siemens' Profits Down: IT Partly to Blame
2008.03.18: GPS Says: Turn Left, Turn Right, Drive Off Cliff
2008.03.18: Data Stolen Again: This Time Grocer Hannaford Hit
2008.03.17: NPfIT: Some Good News
2008.03.14: Dutch Tax Office Erases 730,000 Tax Returns
2008.03.14: Please Don't Open That Email - It's Classified
2008.03.14: Patch and Pray Friday for Dextre the Space Robot
2008.03.13: Is There or Is There Not an IT Labor Shortage?
2008.03.13: Grab the Bug Juice: Robot Swarms Approaching
2008.03.12: 36% of Scientists at NASA are Indian
2008.03.12: Losing Your Heart May Have a Whole New Meaning
2008.03.11: Microsoft's Vista $2,100 e-mail machine
2008.03.09: REAL ID Costs Hitting Starting to Bite
2008.03.09: Missing White House E-Mails
2008.03.09: Boeing To Slip 787 Dreamliner Again?
2008.03.08: Computer Science Enrollment Looking Better?
2008.03.08: DoD Admits to Being Severely Hacked
2008.03.06: US Census 2010: The Current Situation is Unacceptable
2008.03.05: IT Mercy Rule Called: Seasprite Contact Cancelled
2008.03.04: Counterfeit Computer Chips Security Risk?
2008.03.04: Dow Jones Drop Miscalculation
2008.03.04: Free Cash - Almost
2008.03.02: Healthcare Costs Soar - EHRs to the Rescue
2008.03.02: FAA: Bad Parts A Growing Problem - Will Software Be Next?
2008.02.29: Google's Personal Health Record Plans Unveiled
2008.02.28: Ethics 101 for Robots
2008.02.27: Terrorist Watch list Grows and Grows
2008.02.26: Never Too Young to Protect Your Identity
2008.02.26: Taxes and Software Don't Mix
2008.02.26: Executives Punish Themselves for Software Problems
2008.02.24: DC Tax Scam Longer and Bigger Than Thought
2008.02.24: LAUSD Tax Mess
2008.02.22: IT Security Gets a Double Whack
2008.02.21: Baggage Meltdown at Heathrow
2008.02.20: End of Wired Phones in Sight?
2008.02.20: London Crash - Still Unresolved
2008.02.20: Boeing 787 Dreamliner - More Delays in the Works?
2008.02.19: Secrets Behind the UK Electronic Health Record System Decision
2008.02.18: E-Voting Problems Worse Than This?
2008.02.17: Grand Challenges - A Little Bit of Software Needed
2008.02.17: Death of HD DVDs
2008.02.15: Engineering at Smith College: Bit of Hope for the Future?
2008.02.14: GPS Unintended Consequences
2008.02.13: US Aerospace Industry Doomed?
2008.02.13: So Much for Weather Models
2008.02.13: You Can Be Your Own Hamster on a Wheel
2008.02.13: Déjà Vu for Blackberry Users
2008.02.12: Anatomy of a Software Project Fiasco: LAUSD Payroll System
2008.02.12: London 777 Crash - Likely Caused by Ice in Fuel System?
2008.02.12: Crackberry, err, Blackberry Users Get Their Juice Back
2008.02.11: Silver-lining to Boeing 787 Schedule Slip
2008.02.07: Computer Gives Away Money, Sparks Brawl
2008.02.06: Is $40,000 Too Much for A Good Night's Sleep?
2008.02.05: Who Invented What?
2008.02.04: Worrying ID Theft
2008.02.02: Electronic medical records: Does Clinton Overstate Potential Savings?
2008.01.31: UK ID Cards: Delayed But Not Dead
2008.01.30: NPfIT in Trouble?
2008.01.29: Who Watches the Automated Watch Watchers?
2008.01.28: Cable Company Loses Customers' Emails
2008.01.28: Computer Problem Delays East Coast Flights
2008.01.28: Two-Tier Security: One for Celebs, One for the Common Folk
2008.01.26: London Crash Update
2008.01.24: FCS: Double the Code; Double the Success?
2008.01.24: Future Combat Systems: Did the Code Size Double, or Did Somebody Disassemble?
2008.01.23: Second Life Becomes Second Swipe
2008.01.22: Are Future US Programmers Being Taught to be Unemployable?
2008.01.22: UK Loses Same Personal Data Twice
2008.01.21: Utilities Act Risk of Being Hacked: CIA
2008.01.20: Boeing Crash: Speculation Continues Unabated
2008.01.19: Boeing B787 network certification requirement
2008.01.18: Bank Software Problem Shreds Customers' Credit History
2008.01.18: Another Big Data Loss
2008.01.17: UK Chinooks: $150 million for Hope over Experience Software?
2008.01.17: Boeing Delays 787 Dreamliner Again
2008.01.16: Microsoft Wants to Patent Spying on You
2008.01.15: Now Where Did I Leave That Sponge?
2008.01.15: Legacy Computer Models & Decision Making
2008.01.14: Run! The Dam is Breaking! Oh, Never mind
2008.01.12: DHS REAL ID - Real Fight Begins May 2008
2008.01.12: DIA - The Final End of the Automated Baggage System
2008.01.12: LAUSD Payroll System "Fixed"
2008.01.11: REAL ID: Only to Cost States $3.5 Billion
2008.01.10: Geeks.com Geeked
2008.01.10: Holes in Illinois Automatic Highway Toll System
2008.01.09: UK Cancels $750 million Prison IT Project
2008.01.09: Irrelevant But Amusing Anyway
2008.01.08: Congress Poses a "Challenge" to the Census Bureau
2008.01.07: Declining Population? No Problem: Build Robots
2008.01.07: FAA to Boeing: Please Show that 787 Dreamliner Can't be Hacked
2008.01.06: AMT Patch Delays Tax Refunds as Expected
2008.01.06: Porn Websites Get Hacked
2008.01.06: LAUSD Payroll Fiasco Sparks Call for Payback
2008.01.05: UK Government Wastes Nearly £2 billion on Abandoned IT Projects Since 2000
2008.01.04: Does This Story Sound Familiar?
2008.01.04: Sad News
2008.01.03: Census Program in Serious Trouble?
2008.01.03: Software Problems Ring In the New Year on Schedule
2008.01.02: UK Doctors Don't Trust NPfIT Security
2008.01.02: Checking Grades On-line
2008.01.02: 2007 Bad Year for Privacy: 2008 Worse?
2007.12.28: Patriot Missile Software Flaws Long Known By Army
2007.12.28: Cheating Websites Proliferate
2007.12.28: Wal-Mart Gift Cards Don't Give
2007.12.24: Victoria's Smartcard Myki System In More Trouble
2007.12.24: Epidemic of UK Data Breaches Continues Unabated
2007.12.21: IRS Wastes $3.5 million on ID-Card Program
2007.12.21: Cost Overruns Plague UK Public Sector IT Projects
2007.12.20: Snooping at the IRS
2007.12.20: Seattle Bus Tunnel Computer Still Out
2007.12.20: Updates on AMT, DC Tax Fraud & UK ID Messes
2007.12.19: Big IT Troubles at DHS
2007.12.19: Computer Problems Do In Seattle's Bus Tunnel Operations
2007.12.18: LAUSD Payroll System: From $95 million to $210 million
2007.12.18: Finding Your Car at Heathrow
2007.12.17: Cell Phone and Landline Spending Practically Equal in 2006
2007.12.17: More Lost UK Citizen Info: This Time in the US
2007.12.15: Parking In Trondheim Norway? Bring Lots of Money
2007.12.15: UK Data Protection Rules: Too Sensitive to Share
2007.12.13: Yes, Virginia: IT Security Does Seem to Be Getting Worse
2007.12.13: Grab the Waders: UK Flood of Lost Personal Info
2007.12.13: UK Data Loss: No Harm, No Foul
2007.12.12: Déjà vu - Sensitive Canadian Data Missing in Post
2007.12.12: Who Speaks For Humans?
2007.12.11: UK Data Scandal Was Predicted Years Ago
2007.12.11: Phishing for Cyberlove with Robo-Lovers
2007.12.10: Microsoft Error Reporting: Really A Search for Artificial Life?
2007.12.09: SBInet Lives!
2007.12.09: LAUSD Payroll Repayments - A Little Slack for Employees
2007.12.09: Small Typo, Big Problems in Carver County, Minnesota
2007.12.07: Oh Where Oh Where is SBInet?
2007.12.07: Smart Cars: Coming to a Showroom Near You
2007.12.06: UK Gov Admits to More Serious Data Breaches
2007.12.05: Microsoft's Potty Mouth Santa Fired
2007.12.05: Japanese Fighting Robots
2007.12.05: UK Lost ID CDs: $30,000 Cash Reward Offered
2007.12.04: Needed: Tech Smart Political Candidates
2007.12.04: FDA: Science and IT Risks Place Nation at Risk
2007.12.03: Fixing the AMT: Politicians As Software Architects
2007.12.02: Sex and the Single Robot
2007.12.02: Another UK Government Agency Admits Lost CDs
2007.12.02: Massachusetts Warns Senior Citizens of Possible ID Theft
2007.12.02: DC Tax Scam Gets Bigger
2007.12.01: LAUSD Payroll Problem is Only A Matter of Image
2007.12.01: UK Privacy: A New Closet Full of Shoes to Drop
2007.11.30: TJX Pays Up
2007.11.30: Suing Over Weather Forecasts
2007.11.29: Protests Against TSA Wanting More of Your Information
2007.11.29: Are We Running Out of Shoes Yet?
2007.11.28: UK ID Card Fairy Land
2007.11.27: Doctor Support for NHS EHR System Drops
2007.11.27: The VA August EHR Meltdown: The Reasons Why
2007.11.27: Unintended Consequences: Human-Medical Equipment Computer Interfaces
2007.11.26: Wisconsin Prison Software System Misses Fourth Deadline
2007.11.26: Hope They Match Your Name to Your DNA
2007.11.24: A Few More Shoes Hit the Floor in the UK
2007.11.22: The Sounds of Shoes Dropping Everywhere
2007.11.21: LAUSD Payroll Debacle Explained - and Still Not Over
2007.11.21: UK Government Security Blunder Continued
2007.11.20: UK Government Mislays Half the Country's Personal Details
2007.11.18: Why Government Needs Sarbanes-Oxley - and its Penalties
2007.11.18: NASA Hack Costs $1.5 million to Fix
2007.11.18: Good IT News, Bad IT News at Department of Justice
2007.11.18: Subtle Chip or Apllication Math Errors Can Lead to Big Problems
2007.11.16: Air Canada Computer Problems
2007.11.16: Scarce Computer Science Students at Cambridge
2007.11.15: FBI Virtual Case File Opportunity Cost?
2007.11.15: Ghosts in the Browser
2007.11.14: Just Some Neat Earth Rise/Set Pictures
2007.11.14: Back to Future - A Bit Faster Now
2007.11.14: Australian Super Seasprite Software Problems - A Record?
2007.11.12: Change Definition of Privacy: Government Official
2007.11.12: Executives Being Targeted for Scams
2007.11.11: Zombie Master Zapped
2007.11.11: LAUSD to Employees: Show Me the Money
2007.11.09: Cyber Risk Review
2007.11.07: Computer Problems at London Stock Exchange
2007.11.07: Building Construction Mirrors Software Development
2007.11.05: LA Unified School District Payroll System 82.4% Fixed
2007.11.04: What Business Risk?
2007.11.02: No One Did Anything Wrong
2007.11.01: How do you spend £12.4bn over 10 years? Start by spending £2.4bn in 10 minutes
2007.10.31: E-Mail Madness Redux
2007.10.31: What Does Microsoft Do With All That Error Data?
2007.10.29: New England Patriots Win Big - On Two Fronts
2007.10.29: Too Busy to Help the Poor and Sick In Connecticut
2007.10.24: The TJX Data Breach - The Gift Just Keeps on Giving
2007.10.23: If a Data Breach Occurs, But No One Reports It, Then ...
2007.10.23: Hear ye, Hear ye: Government Solves IT Project Problems
2007.10.22: Who Owns You, Baby?
2007.10.21: SBInet or Bust
2007.10.21: Deja Vu All Over Again
2007.10.21: Back to the Future - 1984 Update
2007.10.21: Supervalu Scammed - Almost
2007.10.19: What Really Happened with the FBI's Virtual Case File System?
2007.10.18: Be Realistic - Yeah, Right
2007.10.16: Software-Supported Ticket Scalping
2007.10.15: Census Risk
2007.10.15: The Great Storm of 1987
2007.10.13: A Different Voting Recount in Florida
2007.10.13: Riding the Rails
2007.10.11: Question of Management
2007.10.11: IT Security Opportunity Costs
2007.10.11: Boeing Dreamliner: Game of Software versus Systems Chicken
2007.10.11: Apple Lawsuit Hacked
2007.10.09: Who Wants A Look?
2007.10.09: Why is that Dragonfly Staring at Me?
2007.10.09: Blaming the Software Again
2007.10.09: Using the Security Sledgehammer
2007.10.07: LA Unified School Payroll District Saga Continues
2007.10.07: Space Station's Computer Failure: It Was Inevitable
2007.10.05: Automobile DNA Testing
2007.10.04: DHS EMail Spam Attack II
2007.10.03: DHS E-Mail Gone Mad
2007.10.03: Personal Data Security Now Better?
2007.10.02: Wanted: Missing Synergy
2007.10.02: Convergence of Ideas
2007.09.30: Electronic Health Record Problem in Nova Scotia
2007.09.30: Small Tax Problem
2007.09.27: "It's like Google Earth for the Body"
2007.09.27: Small Glitch
2007.09.25: LA School System Update
2007.09.25: TJX Report
2007.09.25: "One more such victory..."
2007.09.23: Calling the "A-Team" for a Low-Risk Project
2007.09.23: IT Mercy Rule
2007.09.23: "No press interest anticipated."
2007.09.20: Just Being Inquisitive
2007.09.20: Paperless Airline Tickets
2007.09.20: You've Got To Be Kidding Me
2007.09.18: New Software Reuse Risk
2007.09.18: So Much for Medical Privacy
2007.09.18: Hacking Economics
2007.09.16: Do You Know the Meaning of NO Review?
2007.09.16: TJX Fraud Ring-leader Sentenced
2007.09.16: A Divorce Lawyer's Best Friends
2007.09.12: Little Bits of Chaos: Systems Going Bad
2007.09.12: Privacy Threefer
2007.09.11: Shooting the Messenger
2007.09.11: Medical Chip Implants - Is There a New Risk?
2007.09.11: Business Virtual Words
2007.09.09: Sounds Familiar
2007.09.09: Maybe They'll All Quit
2007.09.09: That's Technology Folks
2007.09.06: Another 25 Year Anniversary
2007.09.06: Articles on the NHS NPfIT
2007.09.06: Bombs Away LeMay Turning Over in His Grave
2007.09.06: Another Data-Mining Project Bites the Dust
2007.09.06: Everyone Should Have Their DNA on a Database
2007.09.06: A Masterclass in Bad Decision-making
2007.09.04: Custom's System Now on the Fast Track to Be Upgraded
2007.09.04: Security Meltdowns
2007.09.04: Data Mining Your Kids' Conversations
2007.09.04: About That New FAA Contract
2007.08.31: Better Future Air Travel - Thanks to a Blunder in the Past?
2007.08.29: Back to the Future - 1984
2007.08.29: Small Things Can Lead to Big Risks
2007.08.26: Is That Lead in Your Foot?
2007.08.26: Philadelphia's Serial IT Blunder
2007.08.25: New NPfIT Information
2007.08.25: LA School System BLUNDER
2007.08.25: Stop Internet Hunting - But Not Killer Robots
2007.08.25: How Time Flys - and Information is Lost
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