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a-total-eclipse-of-rational-thought

Certain passengers on a Paris-Mauritius flight felt threatened and endangered by Bonnie Tyler singing her hit song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and have sued Air France. Here is the story on UPI (hat tip to View From the top.

is-hipaa-about-to-get-some-teeth

The healthcare world is abuzz with the news that the Department of Health and Human Services is auditing Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital:

Neither Piedmont nor the HHS has confirmed that the audit was launched, and few details about it have been disclosed publicly. But an HHS document obtained by Computerworld shows that Piedmont officials were presented with a list of 42 items that the agency wanted information on.

Among them were the hospital's policies and procedures on 24 security-related issues, including physical and logical access to systems and data, Internet usage, violations of security rules by employees, and logging and recording of system activities. The document also requested items such as IT and data security organizational charts and lists of the hospital's systems, software and employees, including new hires and terminated workers.

is-it-time-for-a-pci-upgrade

That's the question proposed in this post: Breaches Make a Mockery of PCI Security Standards (Ouch.) I would say "Yes".

password-list-stored-on-usb-disks-allows-feds-to

It looks as though there was one admin, Wilson, who was cooperating with the feds and had the portable drives. Decrypting the mail resulted in the arrest of two other sys admins. Wilson thought he had deleted all the passwords to thwart the FBI. The investigation is part of a political corruption probe. See the full story in the Philly Inquirer

zdnet-looks-back-at-mcnealy

ZDNet has a video of some of Scott McNealy's jabs at Microsoft. While they don't strike me as some of his funniest, I really like that it is sponsored by Microsoft.

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