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African officials urge use of IT for disaster management

2008-07-21 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2c680 in Network World on Security
 
African countries need to make better use of ICT in order to do a better job of managing both natural and man-made disasters, according to a cross section of political and technology officials speaking at an International Telecommunications Union forum in Lusaka last week
 
Tags: man-made disasters, technology officials, union forum, cross section, african countries, week, lusaka, natural, job
 
 
 
 
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NGO Security Scenario #17

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2008-02-04 05:34:00 by NGO Security in NGO Security
 
...African country that is teetering on the brink of civil war. A peaceful anti-government protest turns violent and is the spark that's needed to ignite the country. Click the play button below to see what is happening in the streets What preparations did you make prior to the present situation? Based on the supplies your safe houses...
 
Tags: african country, country, mobile phone services, safe houses, peaceful anti-government, civil war, play button, staff, comments
 
 
 
 
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Baboons can demonstrate the same risk management skills as some managers

2008-01-24 01:16:21 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
A year or two ago I was attending a session presented by a businessman who grew up in South Africa. He drew an interesting parallel between the wild baboons from his native land and the counter-productive habits of many businesses today. It just so happens that the South African baboons have taken a liking
 
Tags: south african baboons, native land, wild baboons, south africa, habits, businesses, parallel, ago, session
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Super Tuesday

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2008-02-06 06:44:05 by HASH0x8bc5b54 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...African-American or a woman will be the nominee of one of the major parties. I think it will be a while until we see something like that on the Republican side, but it will come. In the meantime I am looking forward to seeing how this all plays out. But this race is not done so yet, it is up to you to decide who wins. Get out and vote
 
Tags: vote republican, vote, republican, republican presidential majority, traditional republican argument, traditional republican, super tuesday, vote primarily, party
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Super Tuesday

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2008-02-06 00:59:36 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...African-American or a woman will be the nominee of one of the major parties. I think it will be a while until we see something like that on the Republican side, but it will come. In the meantime I am looking forward to seeing how this all plays out. But this race is not done so yet, it is up to you to decide who wins. Get out and vote
 
Tags: vote republican, vote, republican, republican presidential majority, traditional republican argument, traditional republican, super tuesday, vote primarily, party
 
 
 
 
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Security issues hamper Africa telecom deregulation

2008-03-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3e60c in Network World on Security
 
Security concerns have led Southern African governments to resolve not to deregulate international telecommunications gateways, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa said last week Hear the latest on WAN application performance Advertisement Give us 5 minutes to show how we can address your toughest challenges & Get $25 Coffee Gift Card
 
Tags: wan application performance, coffee gift card, security concerns, advertisement, challenges, week, minutes, resolve, gateways
 
 
 
 
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South African Spam is World Class!

2007-11-01 14:15:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
I found this interesting table on Trend's website which takes the number of spam messages it receives, extrapolates it to estimate total worldwide spamming from an IP range and then reports on the range The bottom line is that they estimated that SAIX users (corporate, dial up, sub-ISPs, etc) all sent out about 82 Million spam emails in the...
 
Tags: south africa, sunny south africa, million spam emails, saix users, saix, world, range, spam messages, total worldwide
 
 
 
 
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The Thin Blue Line

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2007-09-05 12:47:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
...African Police Service held a commemoration day service to remember the 108 police officers killed in the line of duty in the past year Having been a reservist police officer for a short period I understand exactly what these police have faced and what the police continue to face on a daily basis In honor of that I dedicate some time and...
 
Tags: continue, police continue, police, reservist police officer, officer, person die, person, blue, police officers
 
 
 
 
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The Feeling and Reality of Security

2008-04-08 05:50:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...African highlands in 100,000 B.C. than to those endemic to living in 2008 New York If we make security trade-offs based on the feeling of security rather than the reality, we choose security that makes us feel more secure over security that actually makes us more secure. And that's what governments, companies, family members and everyone else...
 
Tags: trade-offs, security trade-offs based, trade-offs intelligently, security trade-offs endemic, security trade-offs wrong, security trade-offs, security, endemic, security matches