The Insurance Tech Guru

A recent article in Computerworld warns that if criminals targeted unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could play out across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas. Normally, such a threat would be nothing to sneeze at, but given the miniscule adoption of wireless technology in our industry, I would hold off on massive doses of vitamin C.

Relax! The deadline for entries for the inaugural National Underwriter “Agency Technology Achievement Award,” launched in partnership with ACORD, has been extended to Feb. 25.

Maybe you've seen those commercials where some worker has many little clones of himself that do various tasks simultaneously--all in the name of multitasking. Now, it may surprise, or even shock some of you that I would say this, but “multitasking” is a highly overrated characteristic in this day and age.

According to an article in Computerworld, a security strategist at Microsoft says the company's Windows Vista OS has seen about half as many vulnerabilities in its first year of availability as Windows XP did in its initial year.