Correction: February 5 , 2001 Monday An article on Jan . 17about programs that give secondhand computers to public school students for home use referred imprecisely to one finding of a survey conducted by a donor organization, Computers for Youth.
He gave the organization the computer around 1980, to help Seva enter and analyze survey data from its eye surgeries in Nepal.
The magazine said that surveillance devices were installed in the European Union's offices in Washington and that the organization's computer networks in Brussels had been infiltrated.
At one time, virus attacks were obvious to users, said Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, a training organization for computer security professionals.
As more of life moves online, damage to critical Internet systems affect more of the economy, and disasters like Hurricane Sandy reveal vulnerabilities from the sometimes ad hoc organization of computer networks.
They note that as more of life moves online, damage to critical Internet systems affects more of the economy, and disasters like Hurricane Sandy reveal vulnerabilities from the sometimes ad hoc organization of computer networks.
WALL STREET JOURNAL Flooding Takes Web Sites Offline | The hurricane knocked out The Huffington Post and Gawker sites, showing the "vulnerabilities from the sometimes ad hoc organization of computer networks," The New York Times writes.
The PBS Web site briefly carried a fake article claiming that the famed rapper Tupac Shakur was alive and living in New Zealand after a group of hackers took over the organization's computer systems on Saturday night.
The senior system administrator taught me that the bad guys need to know only one way to get into an organization's computer, but that the good guys have to know all the ways, to be able to stop the bad guys.
And from Lohr's passing mention of Eric Raymond, author of a rallying document about open source, you wouldn't know that Raymond is a libertarian who, when given an award by an organization called Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, sent a note saying, "When I hear the words 'social responsibility,' I want to reach for my gun".
