Kaiser fires 15 workers for snooping in octuplet mom's medical records
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A Kaiser Permanente hospital located in a Los Angeles suburb has fired 15 employees and reprimanded eight others for improperly accessing the personal medical records of Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to octuplets in January.
The unauthorized accessing of Suleman's electronic records at the medical center in Bellflower, Calif., violated a California law designed to safeguard the privacy of health care data, according to Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson, who said the snooping incidents have been reported to the California Department of Public Health.
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Conficker.c infects small number of U.S. PCs, IBM says
Conficker.c may be in headlines around the world, but most of the infected PCs are in Asia and Europe, with fewer than 6% of the total in North America, a security company said today.
Using an analysis of the worm's peer-to-peer communications scheme, IBM Internet Security System's X-Force team figured out last week how to detect machines plagued with the newest variant of Conficker, then mined that data to put a face on its geographic distribution.
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Corsair releases one-touch backup USB flash drive adapter
The Corsair Voyager Port, a USB-powered adapter, includes NovaBackup 10 backup and recovery software that can be activated by a button to store pre-selected computer files on a the flash drive inserted in the adapter.
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Security software scammers riding on Conficker's coattails
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[April 1]: Ballmer makes it official - M$ re-enters corporate crime market
In a stunning annoucement, Steve Ballmer, CEO of one-time software star Microsoft, announced that the company is going back to its roots: crime.
“We’ve never had as much fun as we did when we illegally crushed NetScape,” said a gleeful Ballmer. “People always say, “do what you love.” Well, at Microsoft we love using our market power to squeeze money out of people any way we can.”
“But it was important that we update our criminal business model to reflect changing times. We’ve hired the top Spam and Malware (S&M) rings in Russia, China and eastern Europe with a deal they couldn’t resist: we’ll provide advance notice on exploitable bugs and they’ll give us 50% of the take.”
“Look, we productize thousands of bugs every week anyway,” the brainy CEO continued. “Now we can profit off them without pretending we care about customer security. We don’t, we never have, and now we can make billions off it.”
The continuing criminal enterprise known as “Wall Street” reacted strongly, driving M$’s stock price up 66%. Freddie Fender, a Lehman Brothers analyst, said the reason was simple “finally Microsoft has a business model we can understand: ripping people off.”
The Storage Bits take
With this gutsy move, Steve moves out from under Bill’s shadow, where he suffered for years as the world’s richest employee. I take back all the snarky things I’ve said about Ballmer in the past.
He’s a true American hero.
Comments welcome, of course. And a happy April 1 to you too!
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Google's April Fools Joke for 2009
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html
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Google Unearths Stolen Credit Cards
Cards stolen from U.K. are revealed when thieves post them for sale.
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