The BBC has picked up the “secret” story of the Wizard of Oz: Baum published the book in 1900, just after the US emerged from a period of deflation and depression. Prices had fallen by about 22% over the previous 16 years, causing huge debt. Farmers were among those badly affected, and the Populist political … Continue reading Wizard of Oz Secrets
Bank Information Security has posted an interesting interview with Alain Sheer, an attorney with the FTC working on the CardSystems breach. He gives details on the attack: Here is what we alleged in the complaint about what happened, and this is kind of a big picture kind of way of thinking about it, but I … Continue reading Card Systems Breach FTC Review
F-Secure Security Center has disclosed an Adobe Flash Player remote code execution vulnerability. Report ID: SA200900917 Source: F-Secure Date of Discovery: 25.02.2009 Criticality: Urgent Affects: Adobe Flash Player 10.x Adobe Flash Player 9.x Compromise From: From remote Compromise Type: System access Remote code execution An upgrade to 10.0.22.87 (10.0r22) is the solution. It also is … Continue reading Urgent Vulnerability: Adobe Flash
I have been getting a lot of questions about the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and how it will affect IT spending in health care. A WTN News article has an excellent executive summary: The largest allocation of funding — approximately $17 billion — is for incentive payments through the Medicare and … Continue reading Healthcare IT security and the Stimulus Package