Banks should shift from password-based authentication to digital certificates and digital signatures to help prevent financial fraud, said Badrul Hisham Mahari, chief executive officer of MSC …
U.S. Expanding G.I. Presence in Afghanistan to Permit Aid Work
American forces will expand deployment in the southern and eastern parts of Afghanistan to increase security so that reconstruction work can begin unmolested by Taliban and Qaeda attackers, the top …
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How Army Sleuths Stalked the Adviser Who Led to Hussein
The most wanted man in Iraq last week - besides Saddam Hussein - was not on anyone's Top 55 or even Top 200 fugitive list. He was a balding, paunchy middle-aged veteran of Mr. Hussein's once feared …
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Terminating a systems administrator
When it's time for an IT employee to go, eliminate all the ways that person can access your network. Perhaps one of the most challenging situations in an IT organization is to let a systems …
No, Really, You Can't Copy These
Philips Electronics said on Tuesday it was six months away from launching a system against illegal copying that will allow consumers to play digital video and music on any digital media player. …
A Bug That Pulls the Wool Over Your Site
A newly discovered security bug can let Internet scammers make phony sites that look even more authentic than usual in Internet Explorer for Windows: Instead of betraying their origin by showing the …
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Government urged to step up fight against cybercrime
The government has been urged to create one-stop shops to allow businesses to report computer crimes and share confidential intelligence about cyberattacks with other organisations. The lack of …
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Report: $2B hasn't stopped gaps in bioterror readiness
Despite a $2 billion federal investment, the nation's public health system is only marginally better prepared today to handle a bioterrorism attack or other health emergency than it was in 2001, a new …
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IG says Transportation IT security, management lag
IT investment management and computer security are among the top challenges facing the Transportation Department in 2004, the department’s inspector general said in a report released today. Although …
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Bioterrorism Preparedness Is Criticized
States are only modestly better prepared to handle bioterrorism or other public health emergencies than they were in 2001 — partly because local budget cuts may be countering a nearly $2 billion …
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