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Beyond Print: Crime
04/29/2008 - Euros were said to be immune to counterfeiting, but officials last year admitted an increase in seizures of fake bills and coins. Find out how counterfeiters do it.
Beyond Print: Hiring \ Employment Issues
04/29/2008 - An impolite, unpleasant, and volatile woman does not deserve workers’ compensation for the psychological damage she incurred at work, an appeals court ruled, because she brought it on herself.
Beyond Print: Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management
04/29/2008 - FEMA has replaced its post-9-11 National Response Plan with its National Response Framework, with a new emphasis on improving state and local preparedness.
Beyond Print: IT Security
04/29/2008 - Human error leads to more hardware breakdowns and system outages than technology problems, according to three quarters of respondents to a new Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu survey.
Beyond Print: Contingency Planning \ Disaster Management
04/29/2008 - Find out what the U.S. Geological Survey learned from recent hurricanes, including Katrina, to mitigate the effects of future violent storms.
Beyond Print: Research & Studies
04/29/2008 - Phishing scams cost Americans $3.6 billion last year, up 10 percent from 2006, according to Gartner Research.
Beyond Print: Legal Issues
04/29/2008 - An organization cannot halt an internal investigation once a federal discrimination suit has been filed, an appellate court said, because it constitutes retaliation against the employee who made the complaint.
Beyond Print: Homeland Security
04/29/2008 - The RAND Corp. recommends that governments closely regulate GPS-guided mortars, as they do shoulder-to-air missiles, before terrorists acquire them.
Beyond Print: Web-based Threats
04/29/2008 - Got bugs? This month’s Site to See offers free e-mail alerts notifying companies if their sites are vulnerable to one of the biggest Web application vulnerabilities, cross-site scripting.
Beyond Print: Crime
04/29/2008 - Learn how São Paulo, Brazil, has cut murders by two-thirds since 2000 and may finally reduce homicides below the UN’s threshold definition of epidemic violence.
Beyond Print: Crime
04/29/2008 - Division-I college football games cause an uptick in crime, a new study finds, but it worsens when an upset occurs.
Beyond Print: Research & Studies
04/29/2008 - States are continuing to explore ways to secure electronic voting after a New York University study found that electronic voting machines could be compromised, with software attacks easiest to pull off.
Beyond Print: International Security
03/27/2008 - The Department of State has broken down the top threats of 2007. Theft of trade secrets, cyberattacks, insider threats, “home-grown” political radicalism, terrorism, and political conflict were the most serious threats to U.S. security.
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