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Headlines from around the Web for Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008
Compiled by Melanie Bender

Top 10 Cyber Security Menaces For 2008 Listed

InformationWeek

The SANS Institute on Monday released its take on the top 10 cybersecurity threats for 2008. Leading the list is a rise in the number of attacks on Web browsers, a growing amount of botnets, and sophisticated cyberespionage.

Storm Botnet Gets Profiled at Web Site

NetworkWorld

Storm, which has grown into a large remotely controlled botnet since the initial worm appeared a year ago to infect victims' machines, is getting a graphic profile on Secure Computing's TrustedSource.org research portal. StormTracker displays real-time information compiled through sensors maintained in 75 countries.

Nashville Laptop Theft May Cost County $1 Million

ComputerWorld

Officials say thieves broke into Davidson County Election Commission offices on the weekend before Christmas, smashing a window with a rock and then making off with a $3,000 router, a digital camera and a pair of laptops containing names and Social Security numbers of all 337,000 registered voters in the county. Identity-theft protection for those affected is expected to cost $1 million.

Michigan Voting Officials Confident of E-Voting Systems

ComputerWorld

Today, as Michigan voters cast their ballots in their state primaries, questions arise as to whether Michigan's election results will face the same kinds of post-election scrutiny from candidates and pundits as they did in New Hampshire, since the states use similar optical scanning vote-tabulation machines.

Police Chief Pleads for IT Community's Help

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

In his data-driven approach to policing, it didn't take Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn long to figure out that he needs help with his department's technology systems if he's going to rely on numbers to put officers where they're needed most. So he asked business leaders if they have any "spare IT capacity."

SBA Rule Aims to Protect Employee E-Mail

Federal Computer Week

On Dec. 21, SBA officials approved the rules regarding when managers can look at SBA employee e-mail messages after a report from the agency’s inspector general showed SBA had no clear policy about accessing e-mail messages without authorization.

Study: Congressional Web Sites Need Work

Government Computer News

In a study funded by the National Science Foundation, the Congressional Management Foundation evaluated more than 600 Web sites for both houses of Congress, their members and their committees, and found many of them lacking. The overall quality of the sites “continues to be disappointing,” the report concluded.

States Must Take Full Advantage of Technology, Report Claims

WashingtonTechnology

State governors and legislators have not yet taken full advantage of available technology that can help them improve efficiency, effectiveness and accountability in public programs, the professional services firm Deloitte said in its 2008

industry outlook.

California Has a Green Collar Shortage

San Francisco Chronicle

California's new green tech economy won't get very far if the state doesn't develop the workforce -- including, for example, people trained to install solar panels -- that eco-friendly businesses need, said corporate and government leaders at a summit on what is called green-collar jobs.

Utah's Education Leaders Go Surfing for Teachers

The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah's education leaders are using an online network to attract teachers to the state. Faced with a teacher shortage, the state Office of Education is paying about $100,000 a year to place recruitment ads with the service Teachers.com.