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By Maanit Zemel | 3 Minutes Read May 30, 2014

Canada’s anti-spam legislation – What is the regulator thinking?!

With only five weeks left before Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation's (CASL) main requirements come into force, one of CASL’s regulators, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), has released a series of much anticipated “FAQs” .

Article by Maanit Zemel / Business, Information Technology, Not for Profit, Privacy / Canada's anti-spam legislation, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CASL, CEMs, commercial electronic messages, CRTC, Directors and officers liability, electronic address, Email service providers, express or implied consent, facebook, FAQs, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, social media, twitter, valid consent, Yahoo, “unsubscribe” mechanism

By Ron Richard | 8 Minutes Read February 4, 2013

Take testing activities up a level

In a 2009 blog post, Dr. James Whittaker suggested all managers out there need to ask themselves what they’ve done lately to make their testers (e.g., software engineers, system analysts and anyone else who may be involved in testing activities) more creative.

Article by Ron Richard / Business, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit, Privacy / Automated Testing, CMMI, Common Testing Excuses, Google, Human Testers, Improving Testing, information technology, Inherent Quality Simplicity, Manual Testing, Microsoft, Regression Testing, SearchSoftwareQuality, software engineering, technology, Test Cases, Test Robots, Test Techniques, Utest, Whittaker

By Adam Gorley | 3 Minutes Read April 14, 2010

Are all those log-in passwords worth your time?

I'm sure this news will come as a relief to many computer and Internet users out there: a recent study by a researcher at Microsoft has found that many IT security measures—those things we love to hate like having to change passwords every three months or having individual passwords for a dozen different work accounts—simply don't provide good value for the time and effort they involve, not to mention the bad habits they often cause!

Article by Adam Gorley / Business, Privacy / automatic update, firewall, information technology, IT controls, IT security, Microsoft, passwords, phishing, security, security-fatigue, virus protection

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