These aren't email addresses with passwords to those accounts, they're the email address and password someone used to sign up for some random, unknown website. Without knowing what website, most of these combos are worthless. It might have been a hack of the server, but chances are it's just some DB (and not DataBase) admin who published his user list. If you're using the same email address to register for websites, make sure you don't use your password for that email address when you register.

In completely unrelated news, Chromium laptops start shipping next week.

Small companies can quickly and easily leverage open source software to save money, but in an Enterprise environment, once you've selected your platform, be it MS or Open, deviating from that platform can be costly. If you've got a standard MS desktop image rolled out across the hospital, are using System Center Operations Manager to manage them, and have business processes tightly integrated with Sharepoint, implementing open source now becomes a multi million dollar migration effort, and breaks the numerous benefits available from a homogeneous environment.
Management dictating a Microsoft (or any other) ecosystem as policy, and requiring IT to support that policy is in line with Enterprise IT best practices.

There's truth in the truth argument. As a gov't agency, you can't provide an endorsement of a commercial product, but you're required to provide transparency in what you do. The public has a right to know how their tax dollars are (or aren't) being spent, so an information page on the site should fly. I'd follow federal guidelines though, and make sure you don't use any logo images, keep it text based.

Making sure that the privacy and protection of your data is included in the contract is paramount. What if the contract is breached, though? Also make sure that they have business liability insurance of a value equal to or greater than that of your data, just in case.

Regardless of what the actual machine does, it's still attached to the DoD's primary network, which has a lot of less boring info traversing it. By securing the boring stuff, you can keep it from becoming a host to those looking for the other stuff.

So true. I wish I had mod point right now.

I'm in Arizona, and I saw that AT&T service was down in the midwest from multiple sources, before I finished my first cup of coffee. If there's been any lack of information reported about this, my guess is that's because the press is more concerned about hundreds of thousands who are without power in below freezing conditions, rather than a few people who can't make phone calls.