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A "State of the Net" survey released last week by Consumer Reports makes clear that Americans continue to have ample cause to distrust Internet interactions ... yet many remain woefully ignorant in terms of protecting themselves - and their children - from the most obvious dangers.

Google has launched a program called Google Local Business Referrals to get up-to-date information about businesses across the country.

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is sounding an early warning on a proposal in the U.S. president's 2008 budget that would require Internet businesses like eBay and Amazon.com to collect personal data on their customers and share it with the Internal Revenue Service.

Is it just me, or does it seem like the most basic security policies appear to be breaking down in enterprises everywhere?

As users persist in their gripes that applications built by corporate developers don't meet their needs, IT managers are increasingly turning to tools and processes that can ease requirements definition and management efforts.

It's the kind of breach that companies fear: workers giving out network log-in names or changing passwords when asked to by someone posing as an IT staffer.

Perhaps you followed the dramatic headlines in May as the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs came to grips with the fact that it had lost a laptop (since recovered) with personal information on 26.5 million veterans, exposing them to identity theft.

Antivirus software maker Symantec may owe the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as much as US$1 billion in back taxes and penalties, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Tony Soprano step aside. Symantec is now in the protection business. And its turf is pretty wide. Infrastructure, information and interactions -- Symantec says it's committed to protecting them all.

Godfrey Sullivan is approaching his two-year anniversary as CEO of Hyperion Solutions, a business performance management software vendor, following a three-year stint as the company's president and chief operating officer. On Monday at Hyperion's Solutions 2006 user and partner conference in Las Vegas, Sullivan spoke at length with Computerworld about a range of issues, including his take on Scott McNealy stepping down as Sun Microsystems's CEO, former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar's guilty plea and the H-1B visa controversy.

Users say they're not overly concerned with the almost $US1 billion tax bill Symantec was slapped with after acquiring storage software vendor Veritas Software last year. But at least one analyst said it could affect spending at the company, as well as what users will choose for backup software in the future.