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Greetings All,

more  reading for today . . .

<Karen>


1)
Massachusetts Leads National TJX Data Probe
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2091585,00.asp
Updated: The Massachusetts Attorney General is heading up a group of
more than 30 states trying to force answers to how the massive TJX data
breach happened.

2)
VeriSign Moves to Address an Internet Security Problem
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/08/technology/08net.html
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 7 -- To keep up with the growing strains put on the
Internet by both legitimate users and online attackers, a Silicon Valley
company is undertaking a $100 million expansion of a crucial part of the
system that speeds Web users to their destinations.
The company, VeriSign, is a leader in networking infrastructure and
manages registration for the .com and .net Internet domains. It is among
the stewards of an international system of computer servers running
programs that translate domain names like google.com or wikipedia.org
into numeric addresses.
About Domains http://tinyurl.com/yqmkel

3)
NATO, DOD to sign cybersecurity pact
http://www.fcw.com/article97599-02-07-07-Web
San Francisco -- The Defense Department is on the verge of signing an
agreement to share incident information with the North Atlantic Treaty
Organizations Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), said Mark Hall,
director, DOD International Information Assurance Program and co-chair
of the National Cyber Response Coordination Group (NCRCG).
The agreement will involve the sharing of incident and threat
information, Hall said today. There are 26 NATO countries and the
organizations CERT center is connected to all of those nations networks,
he also said.

4)
High Security for $100 Laptop
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72669-0.html
SAN FRANCISCO -- The One Laptop Per Child project, which proposes to
give every child in the developing world a computer of his own, dazzled
fans with the unveiling of its little green "$100 laptop" in November
2005. Now it's impressing hard-bitten security geeks with a plan to lock
down the hundreds of millions of educational machines against spyware
and computer intruders.

5)
How to Lock it down - just in time need to know for yourself.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/SECURITY.html

6)
Stonehenge Settlement Found: Builders' Homes, "Cult Houses"
http://tinyurl.com/227lwg
This January 2007 news release explains how "a major prehistoric
village has been unearthed near Stonehenge in southern England."
The settlement is believed to be housing for the builders.

7)
ISP TRACKING LEGISLATION REINTRODUCED IN CONGRESS
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6156948.html
All Internet service providers would have to keep track of what their
customers are doing online to aid police in future investigations
under legislation introduced Tuesday as part of a Republican "law and
order agenda." Employees of any Internet provider who fail to store
that information will face fines and prison terms of up to one year,
the bill says. The U.S. Justice Department could order the companies
to store those records forever.


8)
February Reminders:
Martin Luther King Birthday and Black History Month All Year Long
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Culdesac/bhm/bhm.html

IMBOLC (Feb. 1st ) Happy St. Brigid's Day!
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/irish.html
The day of the gin-i-ker (tine caor) and jazz (teas) is her
sacred day in both the old Celtic religion and the latter-day
Celtic-Christian calendar.

Valentines Day Clip Art, Info and Games
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Arts/Valentine_Clip_Art.html

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