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protection of teens is a parental issue while protecting your home computer is your responsibility

But the education of teens, their parents and home users to the growing information security AND privacy problem will require an educational effort that involves schools, social networking organizations, and government agencies.

On top, regulation with teeth is required

The above shows – [...]

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This story is a bit tongue and cheek but remember our posting last weekend about
ecrime drop in Russia
In that story we talked about the Russian Business Network. We also pointed out that masterhost.ru is a provider that does not seem to discharge with its legal responsibilities following best practice.
In fact, the above story and cited [...]

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Once again, it is the time of the year when vendors and experts are supposed to gaze into the crystal ball and provide their security forecasts for next year. So what have our illustrous experts in store for you this time…. read on and get it first hand. December 2006 we ventured to predict what [...]

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what is it about?
Ohio uses five voting systems manufacturered by three firms:
- Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) – 3 systems namely Unity EMS, iVotronic DRE, and M100/M650-based optical scan voting systems;
- Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold; and
- Hart InterCivic.
The study reports that voting machines and central servers made by these three firms were easily corrupted.
Important [...]

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who is Comcast?
a) 2nd largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States.
b) largest cable TV and cable Internet network provider in the United States,
c) duopoly or monopoly provider of residential broadband Internet access.
what is Comcast doing? – Comcast is forging traffic

packet forgery – stopping BitTorrent by injecting reset data packets into information streaming between [...]

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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 – expected 1st Quarter 2008

Microsoft explains that Windoes Vista Service Pack 1 will not resolve compatability issues.“Applications that have compatibility issues with Windows Vista today will most likely continue to have the same issues with Windows Vista with SP1.”

Microsoft officials have said they were not not planning to release [...]

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In the past we have pointed you in the direction of good research, such as:
research that matters – identity theft
We have also pointed out why some findings can be misconstrued or not tell us the whole story in other places, such as work conduced by PWC here:
3 ENISA – awareness raising study – better prevention [...]

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Related stories
- risk assessment and risk management – Scandinavian Airlines fails to use the six-step process
- SMEs and security metrics – where should one start?
Today, legal and regulatory compliance issues are a major focus for businesses. The threat of being found personally liable by the government, or industry governing bodies, is a major worry for [...]

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In the past we have pointed you in the direction of good reasearch, such as:
research that matters – identity theft
We have also pointed out why some findings can be misconstrued or not tell us the whole story in other places, such as work conduced by PWC here:
3 ENISA – PWC awareness raising study – better [...]

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