There are a number of data loss prevention systems and techniques that can control data from leaving your system.

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It takes control of the facility's SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition system) and through it, is able to destroy the facility.

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But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).

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They monitor news media, government agencies, airline Global Distribution System, corporate data bases, the Centers For Disease Control and foreign health organizations, police, fire and many foreign outlets.

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This move to exploit social network sites would also fuel a move away from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system to gain control of a PC or steal data.

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And I learned an important early lesson of the coming digital age: once your data exists, it is in the system, and the people who control the system can see it.

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While earlier this week, the FTC published a 57-page report of privacy recommendations which included the addition of a "do not track" system intended to give us more control over our online data.

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In the US, regulators are urging internet companies to have a "do not track" system in place that gives consumers more control over their personal data online.

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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey 2004, more than 70% of adult Milwaukeeans reported that they had had at least one alcoholic drink within the past 30 days--the highest percentage on our list.

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