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Cashing in on Cons

In These Times

by Silja J.A. Talvi

February 5, 2005

Keeping litigation costs down is only one way prison corporations profit from incarceration. In addition, for-profit prisons also increase revenues by contracting with other corporations to provide substandard or overpriced services to prisoners.

In some states, companies like Microsoft pay prisons to employ prisoners at wages far below market rates. Taking advantage of the unprecedented prison boom of the late ’80s and ’90s, prison administrators, politicians, lobbying firms and corporate boards created a prison-industrial complex in which everyone benefits except the prisoners.

Learn how employees from 200,000 companies use the Web

Visitor Ville Intelligence

January 17, 2005

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Forbes.com: Fried By Spyware

Forbes

by Arik Hesseldahl

January 17, 2005

For most people, getting hit by spyware is a time-consuming irritant. But it was much more for Michael Borque. Rogue software brought down his giant company's network.

Borque is technical services manager for Golden State Foods, an Irvine, Calif.-based food processor that is the biggest supplier to McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ). Last March, an opening created by a piece of spyware allowed a nasty worm to wiggle into the company network computer in Georgia. From there, the worm tried to replicate itself across the entire company network, ultimately overwhelming network resources and knocking out e-mail and the companywide payroll system. It took two weeks for technicians at Golden State, which has annual sales of $2.3 billion, to bring the problem to heel.

Comcast raises broadband speed

CNET News

by Jim Hu

January 16, 2005

Continuing cable's tactic of fighting DSL on speed, not price, Comcast hikes data rates by a third.

Comcast will raise its broadband Internet speeds by at least a third later this year--part of its effort to fend off DSL rivals. With Baby Bell local phone providers making inroads with cheaper but slower DSL service, Comcast and other cable companies hope to fight on speed rather than price. Comcast's faster service, added at no extra cost to customers, will begin rolling out this quarter, the company announced on Sunday.

Oracle to PeopleSoft: The pink slip's in the mail

CNET News

by Alorie Gilbert

January 14, 2005

Oracle appears to be adding insult to injury in its merger with PeopleSoft--taking the unusual step of notifying workers of their termination by sending pinks slips via express mail to their homes.

Those spared pink slips will get packages too--containing new Oracle employment contracts. That makes it a nail-biting weekend for many PeopleSoft employees, who number more than 11,000 worldwide. Oracle may cut as many as 6,000 jobs, according to its own earlier estimates. It plans to announce the official number Friday.

Firefox flaw raises phishing fears - When is a flaw not a flaw?

CNET News

by Ingrid Marson

January 7, 2005

A vulnerability in Firefox could expose users of the open-source browser to the risk of phishing scams, security experts have warned.

The flaw in Mozilla Firefox 1.0, details of which were published by security company Secunia on Tuesday, could allow hackers to spoof the URL in the download dialog box that pops up when a Firefox user tries to download an item from a Web site. This flaw is caused by the dialog box incorrectly displaying long sub-domains and paths, which can be exploited to conceal the actual source of the download. Mikko Hypponen, director of antivirus research at software maker F-Secure, said this bug could make Firefox users vulnerable to cybercriminals.

How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist - and Won

csoonline.com

by Scott Berinato

January 5, 2005

Facing an online extortion threat, Mickey Richardson bet his Web-based business on a networking whiz from Sacramento who first beat back the bad guys, then helped the cops nab them. If you collect revenue online, you'd better read this.

The e-mail began, "Your site is under attack," and it gave Mickey Richardson two choices: "You can send us $40K by Western Union [and] your site will be protected not just this weekend but for the next 12 months," or, "If you choose not to pay...you will be under attack each weekend for the next 20 weeks, or until you close your doors." Richardson runs BetCris.com, an online wagering site, one of hundreds of sites ensconced in Costa Rica that take bets from Americans (and others around the world) without concern for U.S. bookmaking laws. Richardson received the e-mail just as he and his competitors were preparing for the year's busiest wagering season. With pro and college football, pro and college basketball and other sports in full swing, and with Thanksgiving and Christmas about to create plenty of free time, BetCris and the others stood to rake in millions over the holidays. Richardson was even planning an advertising blitz for the season to drive new traffic to his site.

Veterans Affairs spurs smart-card growth

Gov Exec

by Drew Clark

December 24, 2004

The slow-moving effort to roll out a governmentwide "smart card" that can be used to promote physical and cybersecurity could gain speed with the Veterans Affairs Department smart card for employees.

Dubbed OneVA, the photo-identification card doubles as a computer-access card for employees to use when connecting to the department's system.

Securing card issuance, government smart cards, and biometrics in '05

Secure ID News

by Kathleen Phillips

December 17, 2004

New technology, combined with increased recognition of the importance of implementing security measures, is causing new growth in an already growing marketplace. A number of trends are affecting this growth.

In 2003, Frost and Sullivan predicted a growth in fingerprint and facial recognition biometrics to $1.6 billion by 2009.

U.S. government smart card community should address reader to panel issues in '05 : SecureID News

Secure ID News

by Bob Merkert

December 16, 2004

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December.

At the time I am putting my thoughts on paper about 2005, everyone involved with U.S. government secure ID programs is still reeling from the first public draft of NIST 201 released in November. Instead of the smooth extension of the Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification (GSC-IS) V2.1 everyone expected, the current 201 draft proposes big changes that in my view would slow down the government’s implementation of a common federal identity card by one or two years.

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