The State of New Hampshire had a system with malware installed -- a single 
Microsoft Windows server -- that was processing payments for government 
agencies, including motor vehicles.  Those payment records were 
compromised.  This news broke a couple weeks ago.

http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,108896,00.html

"A state IT worker has been placed on leave in connection with the 
incident."

I think what's going on here is that all those "itys" are coming back into 
vogue.  Perhaps you've heard of them: reliability, availability, 
scalability, security, auditability, serviceability, recoverability, ....

- - - - -
Timothy F. Sipples
Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries
IBM Japan, Ltd.
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Reply via email to