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Mt. Sinai Medical Center looks to open standards for patient smartcards

2008-08-27 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
New York City's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, which a few years ago began a project to give patients a smartcard storing identity and health records, is realigning its focus with an eye toward using format standards that could help spur many hospitals to back the idea of a single, shared patient card
 
Tags: sinai medical center, patient card, york city, format standards, health records, project, focus, ago, single
 
 
 
 
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Build your own free security suite

2008-08-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472f58 in Network World on Security
 
Do-it-all suites are the name of the security game these days. Sure, you can gather free programs that cover the bases much as a suite would, but who wants to bother with finding out which apps work together and which ones might leave you pulling your hair out
 
Tags: gather free programs, suite, do-it-all suites, security game, bases, apps, days, cover, bother
 
 
 
 
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595 immigrants arrested at electronics plant

2008-08-27 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have arrested approximately 595 people suspected of being illegal aliens in the U.S., some with alleged ties to identity theft, at an electronics manufacturing plant in Laurel, Mississippi
 
Tags: illegal aliens, special agents, identity theft, plant, electronics, customs enforcement, ties, mississippi, laurel
 
 
 
 
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Locked iPhones can be unlocked without a password

2008-08-27 00:00:00 by HASH0x8473a80 in Network World on Security
 
Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses
 
Tags: lock code, button presses, iphone, apple, information
 
 
 
 
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The case for Java modularity

2008-08-26 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472bf8 in Network World on Security
 
It never rains but it pours! Get some background on the long and winding road to Java modularity, then compare the two specification requests vying for inclusion in Java 7: JSR 291: Dynamic Component Support for Java SE and JSR 277: (Sun's) Java Module System
 
Tags: java, java modularity, java module system, dynamic component support, jsr, specification requests, compare, pours, background
 
 
 
 
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Network failure delays flights across U.S.

2008-08-26 00:00:00 by Brad Reed in Network World on Security
 
A network failure at a Georgia facility is being blamed for multiple flight delays across the eastern United States, including flights departing from major Northeastern cities such as Boston, New York and Washington, D.C
 
Tags: network failure, major northeastern cities, multiple flight delays, georgia facility, flights, boston, washington, york, eastern
 
 
 
 
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Mozilla garners praise over Firefox security feature

2008-08-26 00:00:00 by John Fontana in Network World on Security
 
The debate over the self-signed certificate issue in Firefox 3.0 has fostered an add-on from Carnegie Mellon researchers and it seems a prevailing tide that Mozilla is headed down the right path
 
Tags: carnegie mellon researchers, mozilla, firefox, add-on, tide, path, issue
 
 
 
 
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Privacy group: US border-crossing database raises concerns

2008-08-26 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
A plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect personal information on every traveler coming into the country and keep that information in a database for 15 years could have huge privacy implications for U.S. residents, one privacy group said
 
Tags: privacy, information, collect personal information, huge privacy implications, border protection, database, country, traveler, cbp
 
 
 
 
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Best Western downplays data breach

2008-08-26 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Best Western International has acknowledged it suffered a data breach but says the number of customers affected is a dozen or less, not 8 million
 
Tags: data breach, western international, million, customers