ZATZ NEWS
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PRESS COVERAGE: ZATZ Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz has been getting a tremendous amount of international press coverage. You can see much of it at http://www.DavidGewirtz.com. You can also listen to some of the many radio interviews he's given.
January 7, 2009
OPEN LETTER:
White House could be crime scene: Obama urged caution
ZATZ Publishing today announced the publication of an Open Letter to President-elect Barack Obama on the White House email controversy: Please treat the White House computers like crime scene evidence.
Authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone?, this important Open Letter makes the case that when Mr. Obama and his team enter the White House on January 20, they will be walking into an active crime scene -- and they need to treat it as such.
December 2, 2008
WEBINAR:
Now! How to stay in business in 2009
ZATZ Publishing today announced that Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz will be giving a webinar, Now! How to stay in business in 2009, for the Independent Computer Consultants Association.
So, how do you do it? What are the strategies and tactics you can begin to deploy NOW that will help keep you afloat in these incredibly uncertain times? What are ten things you can begin to do right now, this month, this week, even this morning that will combat the financial crisis blues and ensure that your bottom line is more line than bottom? These will all be discussed in the webinar.
October 7, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
Tips for staying sane and successful in today's uncertain economy
ZATZ Publishing today announced the publication of our latest Special Report, Thriving in a changing economy, understanding the economic upheaval.
Authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? and The Flexible Enterprise (out of print but still amazingly relevant for our current times), this latest Special Report shares with you some background that can help you understand the situation better. David also provides some coping strategies that will help you make it through this thing and come out solid on the other side.
September 22, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
Sarah Palin's email problems exposed, separating fact from fiction
ZATZ Publishing, in association with IT Examiner.com, today announced the publication of our latest Special Report, Separating fact from fiction: Sarah Palin's email problems exposed.
August 15, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
Digital Defense: The Coming CyberWar
ZATZ Publishing, in partnership with The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security International, today announced the publication of our latest Special Report, Digital Defense: The Coming Cyberwar.
According to the report, authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief, Cyberterrorism Advisor to the the International Association for Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and a columnist for The Journal of Counterterrorism and Homeland Security International, when it comes to a future cyberwar, the issue is no longer if it'll happen.
Instead, the concern is when it'll happen, how bad it'll be, and how many attacks we'll have to withstand.
July 21, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
Analysis: Spying Chinese temptress steals senior Brit's BlackBerry
ZATZ Publishing today announced the publication of our latest Special Report: Analysis: Spying Chinese temptress steals senior Brit's BlackBerry.
Authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone?, this latest Special Report is particularly juicy because the senior Downing Street aide got caught in what's probably the world's oldest intelligence ploy, the "honeytrap," an intelligence scam where an attractive female spy is used to lure a government official into some form of compromising position.
Returning to the story of our bonking Brit and his BlackBerry bandit. Just how much trouble did this aide's problematic peccadillo get him into? Of more concern, how much damage did our international man of mystery's "special branch" do to Britain's security -- and, by extension, the security of her allies?
July 14, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
U.S. government agencies cyber-security and record keeping worse than previously thought
ZATZ Publishing today announced the publication of our latest Special Report on the White House email controversy: U.S. government agencies' cyber-security and record-keeping worse than previously thought.
Authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone?, this latest Special Report spotlights a surprising lack of government record-keeping oversight, along with critical cyber-security gaps, both revealed in last week's Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit of the National Archives and Records Administration and four key government agencies: Homeland Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Trade Commission, and HUD.
May 7, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
White House email expert calls for Special Prosecutor
ZATZ Publishing today announced the publication of our latest Special Report on the White House email controversy: It's time for a Special Prosecutor.
Authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone?, this latest Special Report spotlights the increasingly apparent examples of massive negligence within the White House Office of the Chief Information Officer, this time resulting in evidence that the White House has irrevocably broken at least two key federal laws: the Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act.
The Special Report also explores how ranking members of the House Oversight Committee have virtually guaranteed that none of White House's email problems will be resolved until the end of the next administration, four years after George W. Bush leaves office.
April 29, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
The worrisome implications of the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerry devices
ZATZ Publishing today announced the publication of our latest Special Report: The worrisome implications of the Mexican theft of White House BlackBerry devices.
On Friday, we issued a breaking news press release on this topic, which covered the early news and what we saw as the national security concerns that weren't initially getting covered. This Special Report expands on that press release and provides a detailed analysis of the issue.
April 25, 2008
Security expert's warnings prove true: Mexican government officials steal White House BlackBerry devices
ZATZ Publishing today announces that national security concerns published by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? have been proven true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate example.
Today, the Associated Press reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing six or seven BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans this week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.
That's the equivalent in strategic U.S. government information of about 28,000 printed pages of data, or seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels. And that's per BlackBerry. Given today's incident, that's seven times seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels.
March 28, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
The White House email controversy. Where have all the computers gone?
This latest Special Report provides a detailed analysis and point-counterpoint to the recent declaration by the White House Chief Information Officer in response to a court order by U.S. Magistrate Judge M. Facciola.
March 4, 2008
SPECIAL REPORT:
The White House email controversy. Hearings spotlight disturbing IT practices.
ZATZ Publishing is please to announce the publication of our latest Special Report: The White House email controversy: hearings spotlight disturbing IT practices.
Authored by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone?, this latest Special Report spotlights glaring technical worst-practices and misrepresentations stated by White House witnesses at last week's hearings of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
January 3, 2008
Is Mitt Romney reading John McCain's private campaign email?
Does Mitt Romney know John McCain's private campaign plans before McCain's own staff? Can something as simple as an intercepted email message change the outcome of an election?
A new book, Where Have All The Emails Gone?, by our own David Gewirtz, shows how something as seemingly benign as White House email can have freaky national security consequences -- and possibly freaky election consequences as well.
December 3, 2007
Is Osama bin Laden reading private White House email?
Does Osama bin Laden know President Bush's confidential travel itinery before Mr. Bush's own staff does? Can Mahmoud Ahmadinejad read our war plans and strike first? If Vladimir Putin knows America's secret foreign policy decisions, how badly could that hurt us?
A new book, Where Have All The Emails Gone?, by our own David Gewirtz, shows how something as seemingly benign as White House email can have freaky national security consequences.
February 7, 2007
Imagine if George Washington was God
Imagine if George Washington was still alive today. Imagine that even though he was born in 1732, he was still hale and hearty and large and in charge 275 years later. Unrealistic? Farfetched? Frickin' crazy? Well, of course. Nothing like this could ever happen. Or could it? This unusual and fascinating report links ancient history, American history, and virtual mapping technology into a powerful story.
November 7, 2006
In tech we trust...or do we? A voting technology special report
Expecting to see something of a computerized voting machine fiasco, we instead discovered some worrisome privacy violations in our special report on Florida voting.
August 28, 2006
Computing Unplugged passes judgement on BPL
A special ZATZ investigative report containing our final analysis from our in-depth 12-article series about the dangers and opportunities of broadband over powerline technology.
April 7, 2006
The story of the first photograph
It took tar, a pewter plate, and a full day worth of sun, but after years of work, Nicephore Niepce was finally able to take the world's first photograph. This ZATZ historical analysis is the story of that fascinating road to discovery.
March 14, 2006
ZATZ introduces RSS 2.0 feeds
This news item talks about the feeds in Computing Unplugged Magazine, but we've added feeds to all of our publications.
January 21, 2006
How to protect yourself from identity theft
A ZATZ exclusive interview containing must-read information and practical tips to help you protect yourself from the horrors of identity theft.
August 22, 2005
From New Jersey to Palm Bay, Florida
Yep, we've finally moved out of cold New Jersey and to sunny Florida!
June 14, 2005
A real-life Bible Code: the amazing story of the Codex Sinaiticus
A special ZATZ investigative report about the strange history of one of the world's oldest bibles and how digital imaging technology may uncover some of religion's oldest secrets.
January 17, 2005
How Elvis entered the building and CES went out the window
ZATZ founders David Gewirtz and Denise Amrich get married.
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