Posted on Aug 26th, 2009
A new study from the University of Melbourne concludes, “People who do surf the Internet for fun at work – within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office – are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t.” “Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf [...]
Posted on Aug 24th, 2009
I just wanted to share an interesting article — Cisco’s infiltrating a botnet. Some highlights: This botmaster primarily stole credit card numbers and bank account information and re-sold them. “A guy he knows does this and makes $5k-$10k weekly.” In his blackhat community, he estimates only 3-5% of people are writing their own code. The [...]
Posted on Aug 21st, 2009
On February 17th, 2009, Obama signed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) act as part of his stimulus package. The act includes the following incentives for deploying approved EHR applications: Medicaid: If more than 30 percent of a physician’s patients pay with Medicaid (20 percent for pediatricians), then they are eligible [...]
Posted on Aug 20th, 2009
Never before has it been so easy to share: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, IM, email, and SMS/MMS (text) have crept into every aspect of our daily lives. But as more and more companies are finding out, this poses some serious security problems. Sensitive information is being quickly spread through these channels, and companies are beginning [...]