North Korea on Monday reportedly told a visiting British diplomat in Pyongyang that a billowing cloud of smoke caused by an explosion last week was the planned demolition of a mountain for a …
NY IT Prepares for Disaster Recovery
As New York braces for the Republican National Convention this week, IT managers at the city's financial services companies may be nervous about the potential for terrorism, but they're prepared. …
Hijackers set off detectors on 9/11
Three of the five hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon set off metal detectors on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, as they passed through security at Dulles International Airport outside …
Musharraf links South Asia's peace to resolution of Kashmir dispute
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has linked lasting peace in South Asia to the resolution of the festering Kashmir dispute with nuclear arch-rival India, reports said. "The Kashmir dispute has to …
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New Armor to Thwart Hacks
A small cadre of vendors is set to release a new class of host-based security technologies that protect applications and processes running in memory. While many enterprises are still adjusting to the …
Terrorism fears spur resolve to tighten security
The Atlantic Ocean and dense marshland form a natural security barrier to Sea Island, the ritzy stretch of beaches where President Bush on Tuesday opens an economic summit of world leaders. But in a …
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The lessons of Sasser
Three weeks before the Sasser worm began to slither across the Internet, Microsoft published a patch to block the hole the worm uses to tunnel inside computers. Nevertheless, the worm grounded at …
UC-San Diego Database Hacked
More than 380,000 students, alumni, applicants and employees of University of California, San Diego were at risk for identity theft after hackers accessed a university server containing names, …
Signs Point to Worm Attack on SSL Vulnerability
Security experts on Tuesday said they are seeing evidence of what appears to be a worm exploiting the recently announced vulnerability in the Windows implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) …
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Hamas May Widen Its Horizons, Observers Say
Israel's assassination of Hamas chieftain Abdulaziz Rantisi could tilt the group's balance of power toward more radical elements outside the Palestinian territories, with potentially serious regional …
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