Changes in distribution, purchasing and payroll systems software need to be addressed. Accounting systems will have to be converted to euros, as they affect every payment and transaction made. A degree of re-programming is needed in some cases.
McKay said federal authorities were continuing their investigation to identify other suspects in the MSBlast attack, including those responsible for creating the original worm. The worm was able to spread rapidly, because many home Windows users...
Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, noted that the crucial question is not a matter of how much agencies spend but how well they spend it. Most criticisms of the FBI's performance have suggested that the bureau was unwilling...
A $5 million reward fund created by Microsoft has had better luck, nabbing a Sasser suspect in May. Better deterrence is especially important because the FBI and other police agencies have such a poor record of identifying the virus and worm...
Consumers filed more than 255,000 identity theft reports to the FTC in 2005, accounting for more than a third of all complaints, the agency said in January. Fidelity claims to be the largest mutual fund company in the US and is one of the world's...
That bill hasn't gone anywhere on its own but its major components have since appeared in two seemingly unlikely places: as amendments to the massive communications bill approved earlier this summer by the Senate Commerce Committee and to a 2007...