| IBM researchers build security software to mask confidential info Researchers at IBM have developed software that uses optical character recognition and screen scraping to identify and cover up confidential data. According to IBM the driving idea behind the MAGEN (Masking Gateway for Enterprises) system is to prevent data leakage and allow the sharing of data while safeguarding sensitive business data. Google's OS security claims called 'idiotic' Google, while announcing its new Chrome operating system late Tuesday, said users would no longer have to worry about viruses, malware and security updates, but security experts disagreed on whether Google can deliver on those promises. The cost of not reaching IT project closure All things, good and bad, eventually come to an end. Philosophers have told us this in many variations for at least three or four thousand years. In IT we seem to have exquisitely intricate plans for starting new things: projects, applications, users, policies. Yet we seem to always forget to plan for their eventual end: the closure of projects, the removal of applications, the retirement of servers and the departure of users. Why do we find it so hard to achieve closure? Firms face security pressure from Web 2.0, survey says Companies around Hong Kong and China are facing security pressures coming from their own employees trying to bypass company security policies for new Web applications, a survey commissioned by IT solutions providers Websense said. US authorities extradite Indian on hacking charges An Indian man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he hacked into online brokerage accounts in order to manipulate stock prices. July Giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away 15 copies each of books on Enterprise Web 2.0 and Building a Greener Data Center; Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons to one lucky reader and 15 copies of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Unleashed. Entry forms can be found on the Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet home pages. Deadline for entries July 31. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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