The survey was carried out by Bob Radvanovsky and Jacob Brodsky of security consultancy InfraCritical who investigated the potential threat to so-called Scada systems.
"China has powerful controls over content going out and coming in at every gateway, " says Jody Westby, chief executive of security consultancy Global Cyber Risk.
Former Interpol director Ralf Mutschke replaced FIFA's former head of security Chris Eaton -- who joined a Qatar-based sports security consultancy -- in June last year, tasked with tackling the scourge of match-fixing.
Chris Eaton is a former head of security at football's global governing body FIFA who now works for Qatar-based sports security consultancy ICSS. He warned the threat facing soccer is greater than ever and that governments must do more to combat it.
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Craig Heffner, a researcher with Maryland-based security consultancy Seismic, plans to release a software tool at the conference later this month that he says could be used on about half the existing models of home routers, including most Linksys, Dell, and Verizon Fios or DSL versions.
According to Bruce Schneier, the founder of Counterpane Internet Security, a consultancy, such contests demonstrate nothing about security.
He is chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, a security risk management consultancy for governments and corporations.
Comparing Melissa to the Morris worm, Ira Winkler, president of Internet Security Advisers Group, a consultancy in Saverna Park, Md.
John Pike of Global Security, a Washington defence consultancy, reckons that the Pentagon is preparing to fight on until the spring.
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"It's a new trend that we've seen escalate in the the past few months, " said Reg Walker, director of security specialists, the Iridium Consultancy.
After a cloistered childhood, Rahul studied in America and Cambridge University, then worked under an assumed name (for security reasons) as a strategist in England at the consultancy firm Monitor.
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