chief information officer

September 2011 will be a month that VPN provider HideMyAss will want to forget. Dozens of news outlets retold the story that an alleged Lulzsec member, allegedly partly responsible for attacks on Sony, the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, AT&T, Viacom, Disney, EMI, NBC Universal, AOL and NATO, not to mention the newspapers The Sun & The Times, had used their services to remain anonymous.

Yesterday, during his keynote speech at the CA Expo in Sydney, former Google boss Douglas C Merrill said that companies stuck in the past risk becoming irrelevant.

He also had some very interesting things to say about pirates.

Computerworld UK: "The London Stock Exchange has appointed a new chief information officer."

Military information technology folks wondering if their use of Apache, Perl, Linux and other open source software is copacetic with the brass will soon get some answers from the Defense Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer.