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How bad was 2007 for breaches, vulnerabilities and similar mayhem? On the bright side, it was better than 2008 is forecast to be. With more of every sort of meltdown predicted -- more criminalization of the hacker community, more Web-application attacks, more phishing, more spamming, more zero-day attacks and more virtualization-related threats -- we're happy to tell you that you are likely to look back on 2007 as the peaceful old days.

In yet another example showing that clueless consumers aren't the only ones who fall victim to computer scams, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory yesterday disclosed that phishing attacks may have provided cybercrooks with access to personal data on people who visited the lab between 1990 and 2004.

Apparently it's not just unwary individuals that fall victim to online scammers. Even large corporations, it seems, can get suckered into parting with their money by devious phishers.

The former CIO at Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Delta Air Lines sees a bright 2007, where CIOs and CXOs fuse together to create 21st-century companies.

The former CIO at Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Delta Air Lines sees a bright 2007, where CIOs and CXOs fuse together to create 21st-century companies.

The agreement between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to improve interoperability was an essential step toward enabling broad adoption of technologies such as Web services and grid computing, users said last week. And they want other vendors to follow suit.

After a rough year of layoffs, lawsuits and lackluster revenue, Electronic Data Systems Corp. officials say the worse is behind them, and plan to grow the company by offering business transformation services led by a management team made up of ex-CIOs.

Embattled Electronic Data Systems Corp. has a new chairman and chief executive officer.

First Data sprang to life in 1971 as a backbone for what was then an emerging credit card industry. Now the payment services giant is in the throes of a massive IT upgrade that's aimed at helping it retain its market-leading position as the industry continues its shift to electronic formats.

Web services, which allow applications to swap functionality across the Web, received a boost from BEA Systems Inc. here this week at eWorld 2001, the vendor's sixth annual user conference.

The Internet Advertising Bureau, which represents an industry suffering deeply from the deflating dot-com bubble, hired a CEO on Tuesday responsible for opening a New York office and organizing a full-time membership relations, marketing and professional-development staff.