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- Despite Huge Trade, U.S. and China Have Issues
- The total value of trade between China and the United States was worth a brisk $387 billion in 2007 (.pdf), according to the Congressional Research Service. (And it's not only the U.S. that is investing in China; China is also investing in the U.S.) So it's not...
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Hacking Into The Mind Of A Hacker
- Many people who hack into systems without criminal intent proudly label themselves "Hackers," and say they're the good guys and the bad guys should be called "Crackers" or something else. Hackers are not evil, malicious people out to damage computer systems and steal passwords. The purpose of the author with...
- White papers
- iPhone Hack Underlines Need for Vigilance
- The iPhone saga continues today with security concerns and news from Wall Street. The New York Times reported yesterday that a team of security professionals working for Independent Security Evaluators successfully hacked into the iPhone through a WiFi connection. This news, along with the iPhone's anemic...
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- BNET Daily Dispatch: U.S. Steel, Circuit City, TJX, and Discovery
- U.S. Steel agreed to buy Lone Star Technologies, whose products are used to line oil and gas wells and build pipelines, for $2.1 billion. In the past three years, the energy industry has invested billions of dollars in new gas and oil sources in North America. Officials...
- Blog posts 2007-03-29
- Terrorist Capabilities for Cyberattack: Overview and Policy Issues
- The United States and international community have taken steps to coordinate laws to prevent cybercrime, but if trends continue computer attacks will become more numerous, faster, and more sophisticated. In addition, a recent report by the Government Accountability Office states that, in the future, U.S. government agencies may not be...
- White papers 2005-10-20
- The Myths and Facts behind Cyber Security Risks for Industrial Control Systems
- Process control and SCADA systems, with their reliance on proprietary networks and hardware, have long been considered immune to the network attacks that have wreaked so much havoc on corporate information systems. Unfortunately, new research indicates this complacency is misplaced - the move to open standards such as Ethernet, TCP/IP...
- White papers 2004-10-06
- iPod & iTunes Hacks: Alter the iTunes Look and Feel by Resource Hacking
- All applications use computer code to describe how they look. With a little work, one can get to the code that makes iTunes looks the way it looks and alter it to one's heart's content. This method isn't as simple as "Skin iTunes with ShapeShifter". However, one's efforts will be...
- Book chapters 2004-09-21
- Intellectual Property
- The paper shows that probably the most important practical issue of the current day is private copying and copying for educational use. For example, to what extent should copyright liability attach to activities such as viewing a copyrighted work on the Internet, privately trading MP music files, videotaping movies, or...
- White papers 2003-05-14
- EDP Coverage And The Internet
- The American Association of Insurance Services AAIS has revised the Electronic Data Processing EDP section of its Inland Marine Guide in an effort to reflect on and clarify key coverage issues involving electronic property. The new section now includes definitions for “computer virus” and “computer hacking” and explains the coverage...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Globalisation's Surprises
- This article gives an overview on economic and technological globalisation, which was always a project of global corporations, financiers and their political allies in mature industrial societies. The blueprint was the “free” market enthusiasms of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The World Trade Organization WTO, NAFTA and the incipient Free...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Cyberactivism and Public Relations Strategy: New Dynamics and Relationship Rules
- The purpose of the study reported in this paper was to define what cyberactivism is and to understand how to manage it from a corporate perspective. The hypothesis was that cyberactivism is much more than hacking and activist's online promotion. It is a new phenomenon growing out of activism but...
- White papers 2002-09-13
- Been Hacked? Call Your Insurance Agent
- Article states that insurance can provide coverage for: external threats from viruses that disrupt and deface Web sites; unauthorized use of an organization's computer system; theft of an organization's own data by insiders or outsiders; extortion; denial-of-service attacks; crisis management; and liability against lawsuits. The article points out the ways...
- White papers 2001-03-19
- Hacking It
- From the executive summary: ‘As the Internet e-commerce revolution took shape, demand for cyber insurance burgeoned. More insurers entered the market, driving down prices, broadening the coverage, and increasing overall protection limits. The user unfriendliness that characterized the product is now fast disappearing. Thus, corporate purchasers should focus on covering...
- White papers 2000-08-01
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- Thirty eights
- [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] There has been a passel of .38s since the first metallic cartridge one was introduced in the early 1870s. There have been puny ones and snorty ones; rimfires and centerfires, civilian ones and military ones. Some .38s were meant only for revolvers and some only for...
- Articles 2008-07-01
- A base slur on the blessed Shami
- MEDIA DIARY Much like coppers and villains, there has never been that much to choose between hacks and politicians. They speak the same language, drink in the same bars, get up to the same mischief or would if the old expenses culture persisted in newspapers, so it's...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- On red alert
- 'Yaes!' I'll answer the phone in a falsetto Scottish accent. 'Can ae help yay?' If the voice is unfamiliar I lapse into Gaelic and slam down the receiver. This is my strategy for tackling a new wave of death threats being made against me. I have also taken to wearing...
- Articles 2008-06-21
- SKorea ponders closer watch on web after surge of protests
- SEOUL AFP — After weeks of tumultuous protests inspired largely by South Korea's netizens, the country which claims to be the world's most wired society is considering new ways to monitor the Internet. Embattled President Lee Myung-Bak highlighted both the benefits and dangers of the web when he...
- Articles 2008-06-21
- SecureState Launches New Website
- SecureState , today, announced it has launched anew graphic-rich and informative website to better serve its current andfuture clients. The site, developed by an in-house team of website development andmarketing experts, has many new features to go along with its clean look.Some of the new features include: -- A detailed...
- Articles 2008-06-19
- 'Geek girl' helps keep Mozilla safe in scary times
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Window Snyder isn't your average security czar. As chief of security at Mozilla Foundation, the unconventional non-profit whose popular Web browser Firefox underwent a major facelift this week, Snyder cuts an unconventional swath. For starters, her title is "chief security something-or-other" (yeah, that's...
- Articles 2008-06-18
- CHINGIZ AITMATOV
- Leading novelist of Central Asia writer Chingiz Aitmatov was one of those writers in the old Soviet Union who illustrated, especially to Western observers, that there was much more to Soviet letters than two warring factions: talented dissidents and conformist hacks. In many ways he was a...
- Articles 2008-06-18
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