The federally funded Internet security group known as the CERT Coordination Center is teaming with the Electronic Industries Alliance to form a new security service whose members will pay dues to receive CERT's advance notice security alerts. The Bush administration supports a permanent ban on all Internet access taxes and wants Congress to approve such a measure by the end of this year, Vice President Dick Cheney said today. The economic slowdown hasn't yet hit Internet travel sites, if recent announcements about online travel bookings are any indication. Nortel Networks reported an expected first-quarter loss and said it plans to lay off an additional 5,000 workers, marking the third increase in its cutback plans since February and bringing the total number of employees being let go to 20,000. This vice president in a large bank's credit card department is big on physical security of systems, reports an insider pilot fish.
Pilot fish subscribes to an online business newsletter and receives a computer-generated password.
She objects to it and tries to change it. No can do. She tries to get the system to generate a different password. And without using the password, she can't read the newsletter. Kevin English, a former banking and Internet publishing executive, has been named CEO of the Covisint online auto parts exchange.