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Congressional Report Blames TSA for Botched Website

Jan 11, 2008 10:40 PM CST

Congressional Report Blames TSA for Botched Website

Site lacked basic security features

(Newser) - The TSA awarded a website design and maintenance contract to a firm with whom an administration official had close personal and professional ties, ComputerWorld reports. The site, meant to handle individual requests to have names removed from the TSA’s no-fly list, lacked even rudimentary encryption mechanisms and was not...

Why IT Isn't Buying the iPhone

Dec 13, 2007 2:55 PM CST

Why IT Isn't Buying the iPhone

It's hard to accomodate this vogue

(Newser) - Your company's IT department isn't just being snotty when it refuses to support iPhones. Fortune runs down 10 ways Apple's new baby is problematic for business:

Your infrastructure has to be configured to get business email and calendars
It won't support third-party apps
You can't encrypt data or otherwise secure

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Stores Expose Customer Credit Card, Personal Data to Hackers

Nov 16, 2007 1:36 PM CST

Stores Expose Customer Credit Card, Personal Data to Hackers

Major retailers neglect anti-theft encryption

(Newser) - Major US and European retailers routinely transmit sensitive data, including customer credit card and Social Security numbers, over wireless networks wide open to hackers. A recent undercover study by a wireless data security firm found half of stores in major shopping areas either exchanged data without anti-hacking encryption or used...

iPhone Update Enrages Owners

Oct 2, 2007 8:00 AM CDT

iPhone Update Enrages Owners

Apple plays hardball as update shuts down all hacked phones, not just unlocked ones

(Newser) - Apple’s latest firmware update doesn’t just shut down unlocked iPhones as threatened; it shuts down all phone hacks, including homemade applications, ringtones created by third parties, and the ability to use the phone as a drive. Even some unhacked phones have become completely inoperable. That’s enraged...

French Government Develops BlackBerry Allergy

Jun 20, 2007 11:37 AM CDT

French Government Develops BlackBerry Allergy

Security concerns prompt ban for top-level officials

(Newser) - BlackBerrys may feel like tools of high-tech spycraft, but they're not—or so the manufacturer is attempting to convince the French government. Worried that American intelligence could intercept transmissions from the addictive devices, the government has renewed an apparently futile 18-month-old ban on high-level officials' use, according to the Times ...