U.S. assistant attorney Stephen Heymann built his career taking on hackers in computer crime cases.
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In many cases the disparate computer systems were simply cobbled together.
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In both cases clever designs of computer hardware and software played a role.
However in many other cases, employees are granted computer privileges which far exceed their needs.
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Richard Bejtlich, chief security officer at Mandiant, a computer-security company, said that in cases handled by his firm where intrusions were traced back to Chinese hackers, 94% of the targeted companies didn't realize they had been breached until someone else told them.
For example, industrial control systems are largely computer controlled and they can be reached in some cases from the Internet.
In 2002, when the FBI reorganized to put more of its resources toward protecting computer networks, it handled nearly 1, 500 hacking cases.
Courts often find banks aren't liable in cybercrime cases in which a business client's computer systems were breached, according to George Tubin, senior security strategist for Trusteer Inc.
In some cases, the update may need to restart your computer in order to completely remove the Flashback malware.
But in those cases, Congress should pony up for the computer systems needed to catch the fraudsters and the trained employees needed to help the honest taxpayers who get inadvertently swept up in the fraud dragnet.
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So when I read about the public outrage over how Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann of Boston is being called out for pushing too hard in the case of alleged computer hacker Aaron Swartz (committed suicide) I recounted other cases of hard-charging prosecutors in cases that I have covered.
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In any case, the IRS said it would try to prevent future omissions in the computer matching system, and it would work through the 133 extra cases.
The exhibition, entitled Marbles United, includes a computer simulated walk through the museum, showing the reunited marbles displayed in glass cases.
The report recommends that the IRS analyze IRS employee noncompliance trends gleaned from self-reported cases and audit cases to help uncover more sophisticated noncompliance than that detected by the computer matching.
The computer system, after crashing repeatedly in October and proving unable to deal with complex cases, is more stable.
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To make sure the data it's entrusted with are safe, EDS performs a dozen or more recovery drills a month, in some cases switching a major client's entire data processing operation from one computer center to a backup on the fly.
Both Computer Associates and MicroStrategy had booked revenue prematurely, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission cases at the time.
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In many cases these are older machines which benefit from the fact it is less demanding on computer power than Windows - and is virus-free.
The plaintiffs in the cases received their copies of Windows when they bought personal computers from manufacturers like Compaq Computer (nyse: CPQ - news - people) and Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people).
If the customer hits the button on a client's Internet site, Harte-Hanks also answers that, for another 75 cents a pop, sending out canned or, in some cases, personalized written responses and saving clients from tying up their own people and computer systems.
In some cases, the GPS also let spouses view the vehicle's location live on a computer or smartphone, or take pictures of who's riding in the front seat.
If the customer hits the button on a client's Internet site, Harte-Hanks also answers that, for another 75 cents a pop, sending out canned or, in some cases, human-written responses and saving clients from tying up their own people and computer systems.
She proposed a round-the-clock cyber-crime network, along with the regional computer forensic labs and a secure on-line clearinghouse for law enforcement to share information about cyber-cases.
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Now that the new standard is ratified, Wi-Fi equipment makers, such as Cisco Systems , Netgear , Apple Computer and others will incorporate the new security features into new Wi-Fi products, and in some cases, may be able to update them with a simple firmware upgrade available from a Web site.
In many cases, the bogus emails ask for specific personal information or install spyware or other malware on your computer for the purpose of stealing your financial and personal information.
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