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Benazir Bhutto on going home to Pakistan – ‘Despite the death threats, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but lead the fight against it,’ former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, from the Globe and Mail, October 18, 2007 at 10:18 AM EST A face in the crowd: Benazir Bhutto’s assassin, By Massoud Ansari in Ghari Khuda …
“The holiday season is a time for giving especially to those in need and many charities are hard at work this time of year. The Federal Trade Commission, the nations consumer protection agency, offers the following tips to help you make the most of your charitable donations this season.” “Check out the charity …
Press release: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox…launched the first-ever online tool that enables investors to easily and instantly compare what 500 of the largest American companies are paying their top executives. The new database highlights the power of interactive data to transform financial disclosure. The Executive Compensation Reader – available today on the …
Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries Blog: “We are pleased to announce the availability of all Supreme Judicial Court and Mass. Appeals Court cases from 1986-1996 at http://masscases.com. Cases are accessible by citation, case name, or through a Google custom search on the site. The collection also includes hundreds of the most-cited older Mass. cases.”
SP 800-53 A – DRAFT Guide for Assessing the Security Controls in Federal Information Systems: “NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-53A, Guide for Assessing the Security Controls in Federal Information Systems. This final public draft provides comprehensive assessment procedures for all security controls in NIST Special Publication 800-53 (as amended) and important …
US State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Activity Report: November 2007 AP: US State Department issues Top 10 list of security threats for US businesses: “…Intellectual property theft, terrorism, natural disasters and political instability were listed as the most serious security challenges in Asia.”
Press release: “In a new report, the Federal Trade Commission staff describes findings from its July 2007 workshop, Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions and proposes follow-up action steps that stakeholders can adopt to mitigate the harmful effects of malicious spam and phishing. In addition to proposing action steps for stakeholders, the …
Fact Sheet: National Defense Authorization Act Section 1083: A Danger to Iraq’s Progress: “President Bush intends to veto the National Defense Authorization Act for FY08 (NDAA) because particular provisions included in the bill risk imposing financially devastating hardship on Iraq that will unacceptably interfere with the political and economic progress everyone agrees is critically important …
TSA: “Effective January 1, 2008, spare lithium batteries – extra batteries not installed on devices – will no longer be allowed in checked baggage. Spare lithium batteries may be packed in carry-on baggage and lithium batteries installed in a device may be packed in either checked or carry-on, as long as the battery is installed …
Thomas R. Bruce – Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School, writing on Technoids: “First and newest: vastly improved views of US Code updates at all levels. Clicking the “updates” link at the right at any level of the Code gives you all of the classification-table updates for that chunk of the Code since the …
Press release: “Proofpoint, Inc., the leading provider of unified email security and data loss prevention solutions, today reported spam trends for data collected during the month of November 2007, finding that, on average, spam continues to represent nearly 90% of the total email volume received by large enterprises. Attachment-based spam made a comeback with the …
Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) Between the Department of Defense and the Department of State on USG Private Security Contractors – (12/5/2007): “The purpose of this MOA is to clearly define the authority and responsibility for the accountability and operations of USG Private Security Contractors in Iraq…Pursuant to this MOA the Secretary of State and the …
