Corporate computing started out highly centralized on mainframes and other room-size machines, but since the introduction of the PC has been going through swings between the autonomy of the individual computer user and centralized management by the IT department.

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Aleksandr Belykh, the head of the abuse department of FirstVDS, said the user of the virtual server identified in the City Newsstand investigation is Russian, and his firm hadn't received any complaints about it.

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The State Department did not single out al Qaeda as the lone potential user of such agents.

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The Georgian government has confirmed it's investigating potential links between the attacks and the user in Tbilisi, Georgia, according to Shota Utiashvili, head of the Department of Information and Analysis at the Ministry of the Interior.

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July 2006: US media reports that intruders penetrate the US Department of State (DoS) networks, stealing sensitive information and user login credentials, and install backdoors on numerous computers, allowing them to return to the systems at will.

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The health and human services department has said any costs for the scheme would be covered by a deduction in federal user fees for the policy issuer.

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