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New DHS OIG Audits: Katrina, Bio-Surveillance Integration System Program, ADVISE, Information Technology Management

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  • INTERIM REPORT, Hurricane Katrina: A Review of Wind Versus Flood Issues, OIG-07-62 (PDF, 25 pages) – New 08/13/2007
  • Better Management Needed for the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System Program, OIG-07-61 (PDF, 38 pages) – New 08/13/2007
  • Improvements to Information Sharing are Needed to Facilitate Law Enforcement Efforts During Disasters, OIG-07-60 (PDF, 51 pages) – New 08/13/2007
  • ADVISE Could Support Intelligence Analysis More Effectively, OIG-07-56 (PDF, 51 pages) – New 08/13/2007
  • Information Technology Management Letter for the FY 2006 DHS Financial Statement Audit (Redacted) OIG-07-53 Revised (PDF, 155 pages) – New 08/13/2007

    • ABA Launches New Consumer E-Commerce Site

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    “Safeselling.org offers a resource for business people launching ecommerce enterprises and for businesses venturing into online sales. First-time entrepreneurs and established small to medium-sized business expanding their horizons should find helpful information on this site about selling goods and services online…Safeselling.org is a companion to safeshopping.org, an earlier project of the Cyberspace Law Committee of… Continue Reading

    DOD OIG Audits of Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions and Garnishment Program

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    D-2007-115 Army Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services Contract (August 9, 2007) (Project D2006-D000AS-0173.000) PDF and Summary D-2007-114 DoD Garnishment Program (July 19, 2007) (Project D2005-D000FC-0264.000) PDF and Summary: “Active, reserve, and retired military and Federal civilian employees have pay garnished to pay personal and commercial debts…During FY 2005, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Garnishment… Continue Reading

    Team of University of California Researchers Identify "Spamscatter" Technique

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    PC World: Study Finds Spam’s Achilles Heel – “Researchers say they’ve discovered a critical weakness in the spam infrastructure.” Spamscatter: Characterizing Internet Scam Hosting Infrastructure, David S. Anderson, Chris Fleizach, Stefan Savage, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, MA, August 2007. See also The New Yorker, Damn Spam, The losing… Continue Reading

    New Research Promotes the Value of Banks Developing Social Media Presence

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    Press release: “One of the latest reports from Javelin Strategy & Research shows why financial institutions must engage in blogging now, and provides specific steps for assessing this powerful new brand-building and customer-connection capability into 2008-10 strategic plans. According to the study of over 3,500 consumers, one in five online consumers read blogs, yet blogs… Continue Reading