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One in three people write down computer passwords, undermining their security, and companies should look to more advanced methods, including biometrics, to ensure their systems are safe, a new study shows.A study released on Tuesday by global research firms Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm found companies’ attempts to tighten IT security by regularly changing passwords and making them more complex by adding numbers as well as letters had no impact on security.

IBM announced a new species of server: the IBM Information Server. The new server is all about grafting formally siloed information-handling products such as data cleansing and profiling platforms into one product with a common interface. IBM unveiled the Information Server at its first Information on Demand Global Conference. The server packages up technology from IBM’s profuse acquisitions in this space, including Ascential, Venetica, Unicorn and CrossAccess.

Thin-client maker Neoware announced its first-ever line of notebooks, which the company hopes will appeal to security-conscious professionals. The company will start taking orders for its Neoware m100 thin-client notebook later in October, said Diana Wong, director of product marketing. The company has had success with its line of thin-client desktops, and Wong said the time seemed right to offer a line of notebooks that would appeal to those users concerned about security. Wong said the new notebooks will appeal to users who need access to secure data from outside the company.

Storage makers keep driving forward with plans for bigger and bigger hard disks. They say bigger is better. But can it be that sometimes bigger drives are too much of a good thing?

Multiple security flaws in Bugzilla could put users of the software defect tracking software at risk of cross-site scripting, data manipulation and data exposure attacks. According to a warning from the open-source Bugzilla project, users should immediately upgrade to versions 2.18.6, 2.20.3, 2.22.1 or 2.23.3 to minimize the risk of malicious attacks. Security alerts aggregator Secunia rates the vulnerabilities as "moderately critical." The most serious vulnerability occurs because Bugzilla does not properly sanitize various fields when embedded in certain HTML headline tags.

With new browser versions from both Mozilla and Microsoft on their way, we can expect to see dramatic changes in the overall browser market. Firefox 2.0 is almost here, and Microsoft is expected to start pushing out Internet Explorer 7 to users via the Windows Automatic Update software-distribution mechanism by year’s end. In short, the browser wars are about to begin again.

In a survey of IT security professionals attending the RSA Conference, one-third of respondents cited uncovering identity management as their biggest organizational concern. While 29 percent of respondents ranked email viruses as their most significant threat, 68 percent listed Web viruses, suggesting that Web viruses pose more of a threat than email-born ones.

Giving a new meaning to "portable computer," Sun Microsystems plans to sell a working data center packaged in a stackable shipping container. On Tuesday, the company plans to unveil "Project Blackbox," which tucks several racks of computing gear, along with the necessary power and cooling equipment, into a standard shipping container 8 feet wide, 8 feet tall and 20 feet long.

The following list of top 10 "boss sins" was identified in a survey of 900-plus employees by HR consulting firm Development Dimensions International and Badbossology.com.