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Pakistan, India Foreign Ministers review Composite Dialogue Process NEW DELHI, Dec 7 (PPI): India and Pakistan Friday reviewed progress in their Composite Dialogue Process aimed at improving bilateral ties. India's External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Pakistan's caretaker Foreign Minister Inamul Haq met this afternoon on the sidelines of SAARC Ministerial meeting and reviewed progress on CDP. They also discussed contentious issues of Jammu & Kashmir, Siachen and Sir Creek, a source in Indian Foreign Ministry told reporters after 45-minute meeting. Foreign Secretaries of both the countries are expected to meet in early 2008 for the fourth round of CDP. (Posted @ 20:26 PST)
Pakistani presidential envoys face tough sell in US as they work to explain state of emergency WASHINGTON, Dec 7 (AP): Nasim Ashraf, minister of state for human development, on a diplomatic mission on his visit to the United States to persuade U.S.
Passport security breach repaired, official says
And we rinse and repeat this every 5 years.....dumb.....still waiting...how many passport Canada employees does it take to screw a Canadian...and how months before you can get a passport...geez. Posted 05/12/07 at 10:37 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Palisade Systems Unveils Data Loss Prevention Product PacketSure 6.0 ...
AMES, Iowa, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Palisade Systems, a leading provider of data loss prevention (DLP) and compliance solutions, announced today PacketSure 6.0, with innovative user-interfaces for implementation, managing and reporting as well as a cost factor tens of thousands of dollars less than other leading DLP products. "Our market research indicated companies were looking for a data loss prevention and compliance solution that could be installed and managed without a lot of company and vendor resources," said Kurt Shedenhelm, President and CEO of Palisade Systems. "I challenged our engineers to develop a data loss prevention product that could be installed without professional services, and required very little administration once set-up. They exceeded my expectations, as well as our customers.
Securing the Laptop: Mission Impossible?
Nearly every week, the report of a stolen laptop hits the news and, with it, a horror story of data loss, identity theft and corporate liability. With a downside that steep, it's no wonder that the laptop is the target of corporate IT security campaigns nationwide. Few corporate executives will sleep soundly until their IT managers have done all they can to lock down laptops and limit the sensitive data on them. .
Cherie Blair's adviser jailed for fraudulent loan scheme
The conman Peter Foster, who was at the centre of the Cherie Blair property-buying scandal, has been jailed for four and a half years in Australia after another of his financial schemes went awry. The 45-year-old admitted fraudulently obtaining loans from a bank, ostensibly to help develop a resort on a Fijian island. The supreme court in Brisbane was told Foster took out a A$580,000 (£252,000) loan with the Bank of Federated States of Micronesia, saying he wanted to develop the remote island as an upmarket holiday destination. Over a two-month period in 2006, he made nine transfers totalling A$306,772, telling bank officials the money was for development purposes. .
Facebook Declares New Era for Advertising
Facebook Unveils Facebook Ads 60 Leading Consumer and Internet Brands Announce Participation in New Ad System NEW YORK — Facebook Social Advertising Event, Nov. 6, 2007 — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg today introduced Facebook Ads, an ad system for businesses to connect with users and target advertising to the exact audiences they want. Through Facebook Ads, these users can now learn about new businesses, brands and products through the trusted referrals of their friends. “Facebook Ads represent a completely new way of advertising online," Zuckerberg told an audience of more than 250 marketing and advertising executives in New York. “For the last hundred years media has been pushed out to people, but now marketers are going to be a part of the conversation. And they're going to do this by using the social graph in the same way our users do." The keynote opened the Facebook Social Advertising event, which also featured senior executives from landmark partners including Blockbuster, CBS, Chase, The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, Sony Pictures Television and Verizon Wireless.
ID Theft Hit 8 Million Americans in 2005 Federal Trade Commission
Dec 04 2007 : Identity theft affected 8.3 million adults, or 3.7 percent of the adult U.S population, in 2005, according to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study. The report is based on 4,917 telephone interviews with a random sample of American adults. For the study, the FTC categorized ID theft victims according to specific Federal U.S. laws. It estimated that 3.3 million American adults, or 1.5 percent of the adult population, experienced the misuse of one or more of their existing non-credit card accounts in 2005. This fraud category included checking, saving or telephone accounts. Based on the study, the FTC also estimated that in 2005 there were 3.2 million fraud victims in the category of �existing credit cards.� In addition, there were 1.8 million victims in the category of �new accounts and other fraud,� where fraudsters opened new accounts in the victims� names, or committed other frauds using their ID.
Web scams can bring holiday headaches
Just in time for Cyber Monday and the online holiday-shopping rush, high-tech Grinches are cranking up their fraud attacks with a new round of bogus e-mail, identity-theft experts say.
Have you won $2 million in a Christmas sweepstakes held by Coca-Cola in the United Kingdom? Can you make big bucks just by cashing checks for an Irish researcher, Chinese exporter or rich oil consultant in Dubai? Is there a problem with your account at Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, eBay or PayPal?
No. But you might think so if you fall for some of the recent e-mail scams infesting the Internet.
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