Human Resources

A new worm targeting a flaw in Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 OS delivers crude artsy payloads, including a drawing of a turkey in ASCII text.

A massive cyber-terrorism and hacking attack is on the radar for New Zealand. Kiwi organizations will find their online defences tested for the first time in a huge international cyber-security exercise being coordinated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security next year.

A tabletop exercise is a great way to get business continuity off the written page without the interruption of a full-scale drill. Rather than actually simulating a disaster, the crisis management group gathers for three hours to talk through a simulated disaster.

Google Inc.'s PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning, that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.

An attack this week that targeted online customers of at least 50 financial institutions in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific has been shut down, a security expert said Thursday.

Despite the media hype over internal security breaches, it seems Canadian as well as American firms trust their employees

Deloitte and Touche's operational review of Ontario's e-health agency, Smart Systems for Health, was anything but rosy, but the agency's new CEO, William Albino, seems optimistic about his future.

Ontario's e-health agency Smart Systems for Health has announced William Albino as its new CEO. Albino's appointment follows a highly critical review by Deloitte and Touche that cites a long list of challenges and shortcomings facing SSHA.