Security

2006 InfoWorld 100 Awards: Health Care

Allegheny County maps data to an array of services

MAYA Designs helps liberate reams of data to create communities around shared information

IRS eases the taxing job of patch management

Custom solution ensures that intermittent connectivity loss won’t wreak havoc

Congress sets Alcatel-Lucent hearings

Companies to go in front of U.S. House Armed Services Committee next Tuesday

Hacker goes to prison for Trojan blackmail

Hacker sentenced to 10 years in prison in England

Sun needs to find some sizzle

Elegant, accessible products -- for consumers and the enterprise -- are needed for Sun to redefine itself

Password-cracking contest results

Are long, noncomplex passwords harder to crack than short, complex passwords? These results lean toward yes

Microsoft releases Sony rootkit hunter’s tools

Windows Sysinternals offers assorted software to keep hackers at bay

Former Federal Reserve head riffs on Sarbanes-Oxley

Greenspan uses "extremely costly" and "a nightmare" to describe the bill that sailed through Congress too easily in 2002

Consumers to lose $2.8B to phishers in 2006

Gartner says fewer, but bigger, attacks will gain more for criminals