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Recent Industry Headlines

 www.itcinstitute.com peruses the Internet headlines so you don’t have to. Here are the recent headlines (and links) we felt newsworthy:

 · DHS publishes draft of its cyber security handbook

 Document covers security essentials but is not intended to be treated as official guidelines

 · 2008 presidential campaign may be ripe for cybercrime, experts warn

 Fraudulent typo sites are already proliferating around legitimate campaign sites

  · German court forbids retention of identifying Web data by government Web sites

 German federal ministries may have to abandon the practice

  · VA suffers major IT glitch in California

 Seventeen facilities were knocked off-line for nine hours

  · New wiki serves federal IT workers

 Volunteers assemble a central point of reference concerning US government IT activities

  · SEC demands greater clarity for executive compensation disclosures

 Less boilerplate, more plain English, plus charts and tables would be desirable, agency notes

 · Hospital suspends 27 workers for accessing George Clooney’s medical records

 HIPAA violation follows the movie star’s injury in a motorcycle accident

  · Disk drive pioneers win Nobel Prize

 Physics Prize goes to two scientists who discovered the physical effect that makes miniature hard drives possible

  · Lawyers lament UK e-discovery rules

 Forty-three percent believe that the new electronic discovery rules confuse judges and drive up the cost of litigation

  · Cost of security breaches will grow 20 percent annually through 2009, predict analysts

 Simply avoiding vulnerabilities is often the best defence

  · IT labor is now the lead CIO headache, survey finds

 Business alignment headaches were pushed to the number two slot

  · Access identity management is the chief priority of bank CIOs, survey shows

 Most report repeated external breaches in the last year

 · Budget for possible recession next year, experts urge

 Despite an 8 percent jump and over $3 trillion spent in IT for 2007, experts warn of a potential recession in 2008

  · NASA scientists lose HSPD-12 privacy lawsuit

 Scientists objected to renewed background checks prior to receiving smart ID cards

  · GSA pulls plug on California domain name while reacting to porn report

 Quick action restored the situation before the state government was cut off from the Internet

  · Chinese Web security site is itself hacked

 Visitors were infected with a Trojan that attacks Chinese browsers

  · Malware flood is drowning the AV software industry, experts fear

 But others point out that the security experts have a few tricks of their own

  · Dual errors lead to massive spam eruption

 Use of reply-all when BCC was not invoked triggers e-mail free-for-all

  · Pump-and-dump spam down 30 percent following SEC suppression efforts

 Spam-related complaints to the SEC are down 50 percent

  · Retailers rebel against PCI DSS requirements

 They say they shouldn’t even be required to store the data that they are required to protect