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Fixing Security Flaws Isn’t Just Microsoft’s Responsibility

News Analysis: Microsoft gets hit hard with criticisms of its inability to adequately protect its users. But a recent study from the SANS Institute indicates users and software developers may also be at fault. It’s time for IT managers and individual users to take responsibility for updating and patching all their applications and operating systems in a timely manner.
– In the world of PC computing, it’s fashionable to beat on Microsoft for all
the security issues that have plagued the space. Whether it’s Apple mocking
Windows security in its quot;I’m a Mac, I’m a PC quot; ads or countless
security experts performing research on all the issues facing Windows, a…


Jonathan Handel: Fixing the Residuals System

The residuals system is broken. It’s expensive to administer and is an invitation to conflict as platforms such as new media evolve. Yet we need…

Michael Masklansky: Handling the “Whoopses”: Judge Sotomayor and The Art of Fixing a Misspeak.

But in today’s age of the media microscope, every judge, politician or CEO has at least one “whoops” that they wish they hadn’t said or done. And until time travel becomes an option, the challenge is in how well you handle your critics when these events come to light.

Fixing The Economy Is Women’s Work

While the pinstripe crowd fixates on troubled assets, a stalled stimulus and mortgage remedies, it turns out that a more sure-fire financial fix is within our grasp — and has been for years. New research says a healthy dose of estrogen may be…