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How to Prevent a WikiLeaks Mega Leak from Your Organization

January 6th, 2011 | No Comments

WikiLeaks has brought new meaning to the concept of insider threat by providing a vehicle to empower staff in governments and military organizations to quickly hand over their privileged information to the world. Now that WikiLeaks is expanding to corporations, every Global 2000 company needs to know how to prevent a WikiLeaks mega leak. To reduce the chances of a WikiLeaks mega leak, Knowledge Center contributor Jim Zierick explains here how to reduce the number of employees who have access to large volumes of confidential data. – A few years ago, you may have been reading about the economic collapse with passing interest. At the time, it was an issue with the financial institutions that were passing out high-risk loans. Then it was the credit agencies, then the homeowners and, eventually, everyone. For many, it didn’t really…

Drinking tea may prevent weight gain caused by junk foods

December 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Want to shed those extra pounds but still eat your favourite junk foods? Well, drinking tea could be the solution. Researchers at Kobe University, Japan found that regular consumption of tea also suppressed damaging changes in the blood linked to fatty foods that can lead to type 2 diabetes, reports the Daily Mail. In the [...]

Regular exercise may prevent middle-age weight gain

December 15th, 2010 | No Comments

A new study has revealed that young adults, particularly women, who maintained high levels of moderate and vigorous activity over a period of 20 years experienced smaller gains in weight and waist circumference during the transition from young adulthood to middle age, compared to individuals with lower activity levels. Arlene L. Hankinson, of the Feinberg [...]

PC Security Tools Can Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Data Thefts

December 9th, 2010 | No Comments

News Analysis: You can lock down the computers in your company and avoid the costly and embarrassing loss of critical corporate data if you want to. – It was during the course of reviewing an Acer Veriton N282G that I realized that the company had included all of the security tools necessary to prevent exactly the kind of data theft that eventually led to the WikiLeaks scandal.
If the base in Iraq where PFC Bradley Manning worked had been usi…

Feds Move to Prevent Future Leaks of Official Secrets on U.S. Web Services

December 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Federal authorities are acting to prevent future leaks of classified documents and warning government employees not to read the messages already published on WikiLeaks. – With government pressure squeezing the
WikiLeaks site off U.S.-based Web hosting services, federal officials
are turning their attention to preventing future embarrassing
leaks. U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman issued a statement on Dec. 2 that
he will ask what quot;Web service providers will do…

J.Lo seeks to prevent release of home sex videos

December 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Jennifer Lopez has launched a legal battle to prevent the release of sex videos taped by ex-husband showing her ”flashing”. The singer has taken Ojai Noa and his agent Ed Meyer to court to stop their reported attempt to sell and market videos made during the couple”s 11-month marriage in 1997. In the videos, she [...]

“Serbia must prevent abuse of visa regime”

October 22nd, 2010 | No Comments

For the time being, the European Commission is not intending to limit visa-free travel to the European Union for Serbian and Macedonian citizens. The issue was raised because of the sudden influx of “asylum seekers”.

Split Microsoft Access Database to Prevent Corruption Posted By : laren daniel

October 16th, 2010 | No Comments

With the continuous use of Microsoft Access database, size keeps growing. When it become very large, the database (either MDB or AccDB) may start performing slowly, freezing, and crashing.

How To Prevent Pornography On Your Home Computers Spy Software Posted By : Eddie

October 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Pornography is becoming an ever more present reality to our internet and computer usage and our children arent any less a part of it. Todays parent needs to be equipped with the knowledge of what to do and the methods for how to do it.

Is It Possible To Prevent A Runtime Error From Occurring? Posted By : Ms Mindy Matter

October 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Anybody who has used a computer or been on the internet has seen the message “runtime error” appear on their screen. To the novice or inexperienced user, this can be somewhat startling if it has not been experienced before. It is not the fault of the computer or even the person operating it. This message is caused by a problem with the software program — specifically the code that was written does not support the particular operating system that is being employed to run it.

How to Prevent Data Security Leaks Caused by Human Error

August 18th, 2010 | No Comments

The speed of business has accelerated to the point where data must be available at all times to empower productive employees. This data portability has created a data security nightmare for many organizations since poor data security puts company viability and competitiveness at risk. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Angel Mehta explains how to use enterprise rights management as well as e-mail and instant messaging solutions to prevent data security leaks caused by human error. – While malicious users are always on the minds of enterprise IT teams, employees who are sometimes just careless concerns IT teams as well. A recent spate of data leaks attributed to simple human error shows the critical role that data access plays in the protection of confidential corporate informa…

If Explosives Are Used to Seal the Leaking Oil Gusher, Extreme Caution Should Be Used to Prevent Landslides

July 11th, 2010 | No Comments

I have previously argued that “the odds that the release of methane from the leaking oil will cause a tidal wave or a firestorm are infinitesimally small.”I am sticking by that assessment.But Reuters notes that the use of explosives to seal the oil gus…

Prevent Data Leak – Make the Most of Your Security Budget Posted By : Markneil

June 15th, 2010 | No Comments

After years of battling with intruders and hackers, viruses and spam, companies have now find themselves struggling with a relatively new but potentially huge security issue which is data leak. By March, 2008 the unintentional exposure of companys confidential information has already been quoted in a report as the number one data security threat, followed by viruses, Trojans, and worms.

How Masters.com Can Prevent a Tiger Woods Traffic Meltdown

April 8th, 2010 | No Comments

Its expected that millions of golf fans will be watching the Masters Tournament, which runs from April 5 to 11, on television to witness the return of Tiger Woods following his personal scandal. It is equally probable that millions more will attempt to tune in online to the Masters.com Website. The anticipated onslaught of traffic to the site may delay many of those viewers unnecessarily. Here, eWEEK asked DynaTrace, a firm that specializes in application performance management, for some tips on how the Masters can keep its site up and running as the world watches Woods attempt his comeback.
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INSIDE MOBILE: Using Mobile Technology to Prevent Texting While Driving

March 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Mobile technology solutions to prevent texting while driving are now being introduced into the market. The initial focus is to prevent teens from texting while driving but, eventually, enterprises will demand some control over corporate cell phone use to help reduce their liability in case of an accident caused by an employee. As Knowledge Center mobile and wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy explains here, mobile software and hardware to assist in preventing texting while driving will eventually become an active part of every vehicle.
– You’ve undoubtedly seen a news segment on TV or in the press recently about the dangers of texting while driving. I can tell you that I’ve stopped doing it. My current rule: only text when Im stopped at a traffic light or when not in a car. I feel I’m protecting myself and those around me by simply …

How to Block Few Websites on Your PC to Prevent Kids from accessing them Posted By : James Langer

March 12th, 2010 | No Comments

There are numbers of automated tools which are specifically designed to help you in setting restrictions over your PC and prevent your Kid from free access of internet and PC.

Scientists Considered Pouring Soot Over the Arctic in the 1970s to Help Melt the Ice – In Order to Prevent Another Ice Age

December 17th, 2009 | No Comments

(Environmentalists: Kindly start by reading the end notes to see my background and why I am writing this) On April 28, 1975, Newsweek wrote an article stating:Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compen…

Two Senior IEA Officials: Oil Reserves Have Intentionally Been Overstated to Prevent Panic Buying . . . Peak Oil is Real

November 9th, 2009 | No Comments

As I have previously noted, the world’s top energy economist – the International Energy Agency’s Dr. Fatih Birol – has previously predicted that we will have peak oil by 2020. And I have previously disclosed that an insider told me we already have peak…

How You Can Prevent Outages

September 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Downtime is the bane of any organization. The cost of unplanned downtime can be astronomical, and in many industries there are hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue during any event. And the single biggest cause of downtime, according to Gartner Group, is human error. A substantial number of these errors occur as data center technicians or contractors make mistakes when they are working on non-standard physical infrastructure that has little documentation and often no plans or as-builts . APC offers an important solution to this problem, by replacing unique, one of a kind racks that demand guesswork with standard, consistent APC Infrastructure solutions.
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David Roberts: Gideon Rachman: Inability to Prevent Mass Suffering and Death a “Dilemma for Climate Activists”

July 30th, 2009 | No Comments

This column from Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times really pushes my buttons. There’s something beneath the surface that is downright pathological, and not…