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SEC Issues New Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Guidelines

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Division of Corporation Finance, Office of the Chief Accountant, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, May 16, 2005 – Staff Statement on Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting:

  • “The staff is providing this guidance to…addresses the following areas: The purpose of internal control over financial reporting; Reasonable assurance, risk-based approach, and scope of testing and assessment; Evaluating internal control deficiencies; Disclosures about material weaknesses; Information technology issues; Communications with auditors; and Issues related to small business and foreign private issuers.”

    • Federal Investigation into LexisNexis Data Breach Ramps Up

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    From today’s Washington Post: Computers Seized in Data-Theft Probe – Federal Investigators Remove PCs, Discs From Several Locations; LexisNexis Break-In Linked to Paris Hilton Phone Hacking Related beSpacific postings on this story are here and here. See also this article from the May 17, 2005 New York Times, Personal Data for the Taking, detailing the… Continue Reading

    Joint Survey of Critical Infrastructure Sector Organizations Security Released

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    The U.S. Secret Service and Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute’s CERT® Coordination Center (CERT/CC) announced the findings of the latest Insider Threat Study: Computer Sabatoge in Critical Infrastructure Sectors (45 pages, PDF). “The nation’s dependence on interconnected networks and communications systems significantly increases the risk of harm that could result from the activities of… Continue Reading

    Personalize Your Google Homepage

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    Today Google Labs released Google’s New Personalized Homepage. It currently allows you to choose from among a discrete range of sources (gmail; news from Google, New York Times, BBC, Wired, Slashdot; weather; driving instructions; maps) for display on your homepage. Features will be expanded to include feeds from more sites. (Note: you need a Google… Continue Reading

    GAO Reports on Wireless Security Problems at Federal Agencies

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    Information Security: Federal Agencies Need to Improve Controls over Wireless Networks GAO-05-383, May 17, 2005. Highlights. “…federal agencies have not fully implemented key controls such as policies, practices, and tools that would enable them to operate wireless networks securely. Further, our tests of the security of wireless networks at six federal agencies revealed unauthorized wireless… Continue Reading