A bill was introduced this week by Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee. The bill, the Secure Federal File Sharing Act, is aimed at restricting the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) software by government

The head privacy honcho for the city of Alberta, Canada recently found the city lost 48 laptops over the past four years. was not used to protect the contents. More glaringly, there were no efforts to find out what type

When it comes to data security, one of the best ways of receiving catcalls is by having "robust security measures" in place and not using them. Like signing up for from AlertBoot and not using it, which I've seen happen

Well, I guess sometimes you just have to go with your gut feeling. Yesterday, I had made a comment on the Health Net data breach. The breach occurred because a portable drive was lost (and, wasn't used to protect the

Federal officers are employing Playstation 3 game consoles to crack the password to digital files protected with .To Catch A Predator - ICE C3The operation is being spearheaded by the ICE, more specifically the C3 division/branch: U.S. Immigration and Customs

The X1 by sE Electronics is a new large diaphragm condenser microphone which is hand built in sE's own facility in Shanghai like all their products. It features a 10dB pad and a bass cut. The X1 will be available

Abletoncourses.com is a new website which features two online Ableton live video courses for beginners, intermediate and advanced level students, which has been designed and delivered by Ableton certified trainer Rob Jon..

Lexicon has launched the Omega Studio Bundle. The Omega Studio Bundle is a completely integrated computer recording package that combines Lexicon's Omega Studio USB recording interface with Steinberg Cubase LE 4 multitra..

Ueberschall announces the availability of Planet Trance. According to Ueberschall, Planet Trance grants you access to the full range of Trance music, from the mid 90s up to now. The 30 Construction Kits deliver everythin..

Synchro Arts has announced that after years of development VocALign PRO v4.0 is now available for both Pro tools and Logic. Compared to VocALign Project, VocAlign Pro has: • More accurate alignment with user control..

The Plugin Discounts website has published a teaser about a new reverb plug-in... We don't actually have any details, just a picture which looks like a Lexicon 480 reverb. Wait and see...

Published at LXer: With the purchase of SUSE by Novell many feared that the brand would be subsumed into the corporate borg and contaminated with proprietary add-ons. But openSUSE goes its own way,...

suse comes with squid 2.7 and squidGuard as part of its own install media. I can install, run and configure squid with no problem. I cant seem to get squidguard to kick.. What I mean by this is...

Hello guys , 1.I was wondering what are the actions needed after booting a live cd so as to be in maximum safety.... 2.Also I 've read somewhere that you can run it under lock+key How can this...

Tony from the US. I'm about half done with my BCIS online and am very excited to get into my new field. I hope I can help out a little, you might not see me post too many questions as

I installed NTRCONNECT (www.ntrconnect.com), which is supposed to work as logmein, nonetheless IMHO it doesn't do the job at all. Now, I want to get rid of it, and I can't (don't know how) It...

Hello, this not a linux related question but I hope I can still get some advice. I purchased this high end custom laptop over a week ago ( Sager 9082 )and recently on two occassions noticed wave...

Published at LXer: Chip designer ARM is excited about the prospect of Google Chrome OS, according to the company's EVP of Marketing Ian Drew. Speaking to TechRadar after being name-checked by...

Hi, I am using citadel to handle my mail, and I want the name from the client E.G. Michael Taboada to replace the person's user name. For example, if I have a user called person, and they're real...

Published at LXer: If you’re running Linux, there’s a good chance your distro of choice uses Grub as the default bootloader. Grub has served well for many years, but it’s beginning to show its age....