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IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info 388

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 05, 2011 @12:38PM from the pandora's-email dept.

Orome1 writes "IT security staff will be some of the most informed people at the office Christmas party this year. A full 26 per cent of them admit to using their privileged log in rights to look at confidential information they should not have had access to in the first place. It has proved just too tempting, and maybe just human nature, for them to rifle through redundancy lists, payroll information and other sensitive data including, for example, other people's Christmas bonus details."

Comment Total Information Access (TIA) (Score 1) 164

by Grymlorde on Monday December 05, 2011 @12:09PM (#38266752) Attached to: New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication

This is exactly the premise behind the mini-series "The Last Enemy" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0966151/) and it's giant database called TIA or Total Information Access. In the mini-series, a mathematician is hired to develop an algorithim to analyze the mountains of data. And now life is going to imitate art once again. . .!

New US Government Project To Monitor Electronic Communication 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 05, 2011 @11:57AM from the unseen-mechanized-eye dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PRODIGAL (Proactive Discovery of Insider Threats Using Graph Analysis and Learning) is a recently uncovered U.S. government program created in partnership with the Georgia Tech School of Computational Science and Engineering, ostensibly to monitor IMs, texts, and emails on government networks, is feared to be turned on the U.S. population at large. From the article: 'Cherie Anderson runs a travel company in southern California, and she's convinced the federal government is reading her emails. But she's all right with that. "I assume it's part of the Patriot Act and I really don't mind," she says. "I figure I'm probably boring them to death."'"

NSA Hiring At Black Hat 139

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @05:20PM from the basement-or-cell dept.

jfruhlinger writes "It may seem strange that the US government would be recruiting tech talent at Black Hat, a security conference whose participants have a notorious ambivalence about keeping within the letter of the law. But the NSA — a shadowy organization with its own reputation for dodgy behavior — is there recruiting, and pitching itself as a haven for geeks."

35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen 566

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:00AM from the it's-one-bigger dept.

judgecorp writes "Apple's iPhone 5 is not announced yet, but 35 percent of consumers say they will buy it, when it comes out, even though they know nothing about it. The figure comes from an online survey of 3,000 US consumers by Experian's PriceGrabber shopping website."

Comment Time for the Hamads of the world to rise up! (Score 1) 336

by Grymlorde on Wednesday July 20, 2011 @04:17PM (#36827768) Attached to: Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space

Time for the Hamads of the world to rise up!

Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year 461

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @08:27AM from the someone-alert-paul-ehrlich dept.

MikeChino writes "The UN Population Division just announced that the world's human population will hit 7 billion by Halloween 2011. The increase of one billion people in the past 12 years is worrying, especially since the global population only reached one billion total in the early 19th century. In the next 20 years, our population growth is predicted to rise to 8 billion people as our demand for food increases by 50 percent, water by 30 percent and energy by 50 percent." Not everyone finds it to be worrying per se.

Borders Books, Dead At 40 443

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @08:09AM from the will-be-sorely-missed dept.

theodp writes "There will be no storybook ending for Borders. The 40-year-old book seller could start shuttering its 399 remaining stores as early as Friday (store closing map). The Ann Arbor, MI-based chain, which helped pioneer the big-box bookseller concept, is seeking court approval to sell off its assets after it failed to receive any bids that would keep it in business. Hang on to those Borders Midnight Magic Party memories, kids!"

Wearable Computers and Portable Power 25

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @03:01PM from the embedded-sequin-processors-latest-fashion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last weekend, Silicon Valley VC Marc Andreessen called out 'wearable computing' as a Next Big Thing. Now MC10, a three-year-old company making flexible electronics, is taking an old idea to new places. The startup is developing health sensors that conform to the human body, image sensors that curve like the retina, and stretchy solar cells (and other circuitry) that can be woven into the fabric of a tent or aircraft skin. Unlike organic or printed electronics, which tend to be inefficient, MC10 uses silicon islands linked by springy interconnects. It's still early, but the company has new backing from VCs, Reebok, and the U.S. government to develop wearable devices, mini-sensors, and portable power. Imagine a self-charging UAV with tiny cameras on board, and you can tell what the military wants out of this."

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