Recently added articles from Information Management Journal:
A new content-rich website: more information, more often.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editor)(http://content.arma.org/imm)
Sep 01, 2009; ... In the early 1990s, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an Internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. According to www.internetworldstats.com, as of March 31, 2009, there were more than 1.6 billion ...
State drug database held hostage.(CYBER CRIME)
Sep 01, 2009 ... In a new twist on cyber theft, a hacker held Virginia's electronic prescription drug database hostage and demanded a $10 million ransom. FBI and state investigators say it is a new, shocking tactic. The hacker claimed to have gained access to the more than 35 million ...
No love for declassification.(DATA SECURITY)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] U.S. executive branch agencies in fiscal 2008 spent $8.64 billion on their security classification systems (not including classified cost estimates from agencies such as the CIA). Of that amount, ...
EU sues Sweden over ISP law.(COPYRIGHT)(Brief article)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The European Commission has sued Sweden for failing to make the Data Retention Directive national law. The 2006 European Union (EU) law required EU members to implement data retention policies for Internet service providers (ISPs) and search ...
U.S. history, gone missing.(GOVERNMENT RECORDS)
Sep 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Since May, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has offered a $50,000 reward for information about a missing hard drive containing sensitive information related to the Clinton administration. The hard drive has not been found, and ...