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Admins, Parents & Teachers Learn How to Keep Your Child
Safe on the Interent -- Trouble Areas for Kids

Find out what your kids have put up online, their names,
address, pictures, what they think. This needs to be
supervised and you won't be able to keep up with
what is going on here. Chat Rooms, Blogs, Instant
Messaging, IRC, Newsgroups - they don't understand
that they they have gone public and have lost their privacy.
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Whoops! We Seem to Have Misplaced Your Identity
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/business/08digi.html
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: May 8, 2005

THE diesel-powered utility van is the unappreciated speed demon of the
digital age. Even lumbering along city streets in stop-and-go traffic,
it can move a trillion bytes of corporate data across town far faster
than if they were sent across the Internet.

The homely Ford Econoline 350 is the workhorse of Iron Mountain, the
dominating presence in the off-site data protection business. Its
customers include more than three-fourths of Fortune 500 companies,
and it had revenue of $1.82 billion last year, earned largely out of
public sight as its unmarked vans shuttled among the back-office
operations of its clients.

Last week, however, Iron Mountain lost the luxury of going about its
rounds invisibly. Time Warner, one of its clients, disclosed that
personal information - including names and Social Security numbers for
600,000 current and former employees - had gone missing six weeks
earlier while in the care of an unnamed "leader in data storage."

The data had been, in fact, in an Iron Mountain van, and the few
details about the incident that it and Time Warner have grudgingly
divulged - such as the fact that the pick-up at Time Warner was 1 of
19 the van made bouncing around Manhattan on the fateful day - raise
all sorts of questions.

To begin with, why would such sensitive information be handled less
like a guard-this-with-your-life briefcase entrusted to Brinks than
like a fungible bundle handed to the Dy-Dee Diaper Service? Why was
the data unencrypted? And why were trucks involved at all?

Why wasn't the backup done via a secure online connection, an option
that Iron Mountain offers as well as physical pickup? Why doesn't Iron
Mountain eliminate the risk of midroute problems and retire its fleet
of Econolines?
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Google's Accelerator Breaks Web Apps, Security
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1813761,00.asp
By Matt Hicks
May 6, 2005

Google's effort to speed the pace of Web browsing quickly aggravated
some early users, who say that the software is delivering them Web
pages under other users' logins and breaking Web applications.

Google Inc.'s Web Accelerator application, launched as a test on
Wednesday, uses a combination of local and server-based caching and
preloading of Web pages to more quickly serve Web pages to a user's
browser. Google's servers, in many ways, act as an intermediary
between Web sites and a user's browser.

But Google's approach has had some unintended consequences. Google
officials Friday confirmed that the company was aware of as many as
five sites where Web Accelerator was returning users cached pages
under other people's user names.
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Internet Attack Called Broad and Long Lasting by Investigators
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/10/technology/10cisco.html
By JOHN MARKOFF and LOWELL BERGMAN
Published: May 10, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 - The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach
of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming
instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the
Internet.

Now federal officials and computer security investigators have
acknowledged that the Cisco break-in last year was only part of a more
extensive operation - involving a single intruder or a small band,
apparently based in Europe - in which thousands of computer systems
were similarly penetrated.

Investigators in the United States and Europe say they have spent
almost a year pursuing the case involving attacks on computer systems
serving the American military, NASA and research laboratories.
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