Lenovo Group is planning a full embrace for Linux. The PC maker will announce a plan to pre-load Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 on one of its ThinkPad notebooks, sources familiar with the two company’s plans said. Lenovo, whose ThinkPads have long been a favorite of Linux users, will become the first PC manufacturer in recent history to allow individual customers to buy one of its notebooks, a ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation model, with the operating system pre-installed.

Nortel Government Solutions provides security solutions and services that protect federal agency networks to ensure trusted inter-agency communications. This eSeminar will cover a "Layered Defense" approach to security that eliminates single points of network failure, particularly where mobility and convergence applications are deployed. This session will explore how a Layered Defense can provide the flexibility for the network to adapt to new and changing threats.

IT and business executives overwhelmingly agree: their companies receive business value from their IT investments. But how much value, and what kind of value, is as clear as mud. When will there be progress? Despite the ongoing pressure to demonstrate the business value of IT, progress doesn’t come swiftly in the field of measurement.

From Sept. 11 to Hurricane Katrina, businesses have wrangled with the nuts and bolts of recovering from catastrophes. Data replication software, which copies corporate information to an offsite location, is one of the key components of any disaster recovery plan. The market for tools that help companies replicate mission-critical applications and records is consolidating, with players like EMC, Network Appliance, and Symantec having gobbled up smaller competitors. And while many customers have found success with these vendors, some say the industry consolidation has led to problems with product development and customer support.

Businesses that use gateway security appliances to protect Research In Motion’s BlackBerry communications servers could be subject to attacks based on the planned release of exploit code by a high-profile malware researcher. According to a warning released by network security applications and device provider Secure Computing, organizations with their BlackBerry servers installed behind their gateway intrusion detection boxes could be compromised when researcher Jesse D’Aguanno, a consultant with risk management experts Praetorian Global, of Placerville, Calif., releases his code the week of Aug. 14. D’Aguanno first revealed his vulnerability exploit on Aug. 5 at the Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas.

AOL blamed an internal "screw-up" for the embarrassing release of detailed keyword search data for roughly 658,000 anonymized users. AOL’s mea culpa comes in the midst of a firestorm of criticism from privacy advocates that the information–which amounts to about 20 million search queries–could be traced back to AOL users. Already struggling to repair its image with users, the data spillage is another black eye for the Internet division of Time Warner.

At a time when DRM has been getting a seriously bad press (Sony abandons rootkit controls, and Microsoft may try to introduce strict license controls through the Windows Advantage scheme) LockLizard has launched a comprehensive education site aimed at increasing the understanding and debate of the role of DRM in the computer marketplace. LockLizard’s information security education center brings together news, views, regulation and technology on digital rights management, IPR, PDF security, copy protection, ebook and Web security and copyright for beginners and experts.

A survey into the habits of 142 UK office workers conducted by Finjan, the global provider of best-of-breed proactive Web security solutions, has uncovered that although they know the security risk to their employers caused by clicking on Web-links or opening attachments from unknown sources, they simply can’t help themselves. Of those questioned 93 per cent said that they knew that links, attachments, pop boxes and web pages could have spyware or other forms of malicious code embedded within them. However, 86 per cent admitted that they opened attachments and clicked on links without being sure if it was safe to do so.

As many as 38,000 veterans may be at risk of identity theft because a Veterans Affairs Department subcontractor ## lost a desktop computer## containing their sensitive personal data. VA Secretary Jim Nicholson said that Unisys, a subcontractor hired to assist in insurance collections for VA medical centers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reported the missing computer last Thursday. The computer was being used in Unisys offices in Reston, Virginia. It is not yet known what happened to the computer, Nicholson said, adding that local and federal authorities are investigating.

Nancy Hand works as a Notes admin working for a large company. One of her favorite perks is a ticket to attend the Premium Support Seminar (PSS) in Boston. This is a 3-day conference, sort of a mini-Lotusphere, put on for those with Premium Support contracts. Want the inside scoop? You’ll have to read Nancy’s article.

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