LISBON - Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency officials say they have made great strides in developing a system to keep track of how federal Homeland Security money is dispensed. “I can tell you what we’ve got since I’ve been here, down to

Maryland stands to benefit substantially from the stimulus bill - Baltimore Sun
M aryland is an island of relative prosperity in a sea of economic gloom. That, at least, is how economist Mark Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com depicts it. In a recent map of the coast-to-coast recession, he ranked the state as one of the few not in

Valentine’s and other e-cards may infect your computer - San Francisco Examiner
Apparently the latest rage in hacker-ville is to use e-cards to infect people’s computers. Actually, you don’t get an e-card what you get is considerably less pleasant. You get an e-mail informing you that a secret admirer has sent you an e-card

Ask.com turns to Symantec to secure more traffic - Citizen
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Ask.com is counting on people’s fear of online mischief to bring more traffic to its Internet search engine. To give Web surfers greater peace of mind, Ask has forged a deal that will plant its search engine on Norton security

UNT team dialing up better 911 - Denton Record-Chronicle
When a driver crashes a car on the highway and all the occupants are knocked out, who would call 911? DRC/Gary Payne University of North Texas professor Ram Dantu recently received two grants to study ways to improve 911 emergency phone systems. One

Kevin DeMarrais: Picking apart identity theft - NorthJersey.com
Identity theft was up by 22 percent last year. No surprise there. Rarely does a week go by without a new tale of a security breach or hijacked computer database, exposing millions of consumers to risk. But even as consumers and businesses do a good

No Czar Yet - Obama Chooses Bush Player as Cybersecurity Advisor - BusinessWeek
She s not quite a cyber czar yet, but Melissa Hathaway a top cybersecurity advisor who helped craft a multibillion dollar, partly clandestine initiative to defend the nation s computer networks from hacking, espionage and theft has been

Social Security expands fast-track disability processes - Leaf Chronicle
Michael J. Astrue, commissioner of Social Security, says improvements to the agency’s computer modeling system have increased the number of claimants receiving expedited approvals for disability benefits. Social Security’s two-track system the

Computer virus attacks German defence computers - Deccan Herald
The Conficker computer worm has exasperated computer users right around the globe in recent weeks, but security-conscious military users had been thought to be better prepared to repel it. A computer virus that has already hit defence computers in

Another security review is under way, as Los Alamos continues to try - DailyTech
The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is being heavily criticized again regarding improper security measures that have led to stolen computer hardware over the past year. In the past year, 13 computers have either been misplaced or stolen

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