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When Too Much Control of the Press Interview is a Bad Thing

Last week, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced Google Health, a new health information service at a press conference at the HIMSS health care information trade show. Afterward, he granted a one-on-one interview to CNET's Elinor Mills, who, you may remember, pissed off Google and Schmidt a couple of years ago...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Elinor Mills, Health Care, Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., Software, Human Resources, Jon Greer

Blog posts 2008-03-06

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Comcast to send infected PC alerts

By Elinor Mills CNET NewsPosted on ZDNet News: Oct 08, 2009 11:13:52 AM The largest residential Internet service provider in the United States, with 15.3 million consumer customers, also is alerted to compromised customer computers when an IP address of one of its customers is identified as the source of...

Tags: Comcast Corp., customer

News items 2009-10-08

Attackers could steal crypto keys from mobile devices

By Elinor Mills CNET NewsPosted on ZDNet News: Oct 21, 2009 4:51:50 AM The attack, known as differential power analysis DPA, can be used to target an unsuspecting victim either by using special equipment that measures electromagnetic signals emitted by chips inside the device or by attaching a sensor to...

Tags: Mobile, CBS Interactive Inc., Mobile Device, Cryptography Research

News items 2009-10-21

US Defense Department to partially lift flash drive ban

By Elinor Mills CNET NewsPosted on ZDNet News: Oct 27, 2009 6:13:09 AM "In the future, we expect that a government-owned and procured USB flash media, that is uniquely and electronically identifiable for use in support of mission-essential functions on DoD networks, will be permitted for use by authorized individuals,"...

Tags: U.S. Department Of Defense, USB Flash Drive

News items 2009-10-27

Obama's new BlackBerry: The NSA's secure PDA?

President-elect Barack Obama checks his BlackBerry while riding on his campaign bus in Pennsylvania last March.(Credit: Pete Souza/ Rapport Press )Bill Clinton sent only two e-mail messages as president and has yet to pick up the habit. George W. Bush ceased using e-mail in January 2001 but has said he's...

News items 2009-08-07

Report: Apple, Google agreed not to poach each other's workers

Google CEO Eric Schmidt(Credit: Elinor Mills/CNET News)Apple and Google are said to have had an unofficial agreement not to poach each other's employees--or at least they did while Google CEO Eric Schmidt served on Apple's board, according to TechCrunch.Unnamed sources told TechCrunch that no formal, written agreement exists, and that...

Tags: company, Google Inc., Apple Inc., Eric Schmidt

News items 2009-08-08

Scammers trick users to ship stolen goods

By Elinor Mills CNET NewsPosted on ZDNet News: Nov 12, 2009 12:43:37 PM Laptops, iPods, iPhones, Nokia smartphones, digital cameras, Sony PlayStation 3 devices and DJ equipment were among the items shipped to addresses in Russia and Belarus. Here's how the scams work. Criminals get credit card numbers with phishing,...

Tags: box, Credit Card, RSA Security Inc., CBS Interactive Inc., credit card number, Goods

News items 2009-11-12

Countries engaging in Cyber Cold War

By Elinor Mills CNET NewsPosted on ZDNet News: Nov 17, 2009 5:01:54 AM In particular, countries gearing up for cyber offensives are the US, Israel, Russia, China and France, says the report, which was compiled by former White House Homeland Security adviser Paul Kurtz and based on interviews with more...

Tags: White House, McAfee Inc., weapon, CBS Interactive Inc., Elinor Mills, Espionage

News items 2009-11-17