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Paterson signs Web security law ‘e-STOP’ was designed to keep sex predators off MySpace, Facebook (Legislative Gazette)
Gov. David A. Paterson signed the Electronic Security and Targeting of Online Predators Act last week, designed to protect New Yorkers, especially children, from sexual predators on the Internet.
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Secure64 wins $1.2 million contract from Department of Homeland Security (Computer Business Review)
The contract requires delivery of a simple, automated solution to implement Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSEC adds a critically needed level of trust to the internet by allowing users to know with certainty that their Internet-based communications such as web site visits and email correspondence actually connect to the parties they intend to reach.
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PayPal XSS Vulnerability Undermines EV SSL Security (Netcraft)
A security researcher in Finland has discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability on paypal.com that would allow hackers to carry out highly plausible attacks, adding their own content to the site and stealing credentials from users. Related Netcraft Service: Web Application Security Testing
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Taiwan Defense Ministry Warns of Direct-Flight Security Threat (Bloomberg.com)
May 17 (Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's Defense Ministry warned that direct flights with China could risk its military security and said that civilian aircraft should avoid flying directly across the Taiwan Strait.
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Security worries prompt end to postings on Web (The Express-Times)
WHITE TWP. | Internet security problems have forced Warren County to temporarily stop posting active emergency incidents on its Web site. The page gave visitors a breakdown of all the current and recent emergency calls the county's 911-communications center had dispatched.
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Web Journalist Says Web is Destroying Journalism (The Nation via Yahoo! News)
The Nation -- The Internet is destroying journalism, according to Internet journalist Joshua Micah Marshall, the award-winning founder of TalkingPointsMemo (TPM). In a Friday speech at a Harvard conference on the future of the web, Marshall said traditional reporters are "terrorized" by economic and competitive challenges, living with a mix of "denial and fatalism" about the future of their ...
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Myanmars junta confines foreigners, tightens security (Express India)
Myanmar's military rulers have thrown a ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists.
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Part-time security request draws fire from some aldermen (South Side Journal)
Members of the Board of Aldermen are looking closely at a budget request that would allow two key St. Louis officials to receive security from sheriff's deputies when they request it.
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JOHN WILLIAMS: Facts about Social Security (The Herald Bulletin)
1. In 2008, about 50 million Americans will receive Social Security benefits — roughly twice the number of people who live in the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego and Dallas combined.
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Security agency website hit by DNS flaw (TechWorld)
Spooks struggle with faulty server. The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been knocked off the Internet, thanks to a faulty server. However, website measurement company Netcraft said that the problem had now been fixed.
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