Word: laxness
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...People are lax when it comes to security," Pasquarello says...
...patrols can't be everywhere all the time. Anecdotal evidence suggests that poaching has increased since last year's ivory sales. "Even if elephant numbers have recovered, there is nothing new since the horrors of the '80s to stop the ivory trade," says Moss. "Laws are just as lax, African wildlife departments are even more poorly funded, and corruption is worse...
...this was not mere vandalism either; too much planning had gone into it. Phase 1 took place as early as last year. The culprit first scanned the Internet for vulnerable networks to use as unwitting allies in the final attack. Small businesses and universities, where security is often more lax, are prime targets. Both Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara had been co-opted. A UCSB computer participated in the CNN website attack. Even the Navy's computers may have been enlisted as unwilling dupes...
...Everyone goes to The Grille because they are so lax on fake...
First, it demonstrates shows how, in an interconnected world, the biggest systems are only as safe as the most unprotected. Although the attackers would not have been able to take actual control of their targets' computers, instances of lax security elsewhere on the Internet allowed the attackers to make their targets inaccessible, which under certain circumstances could be almost as bad. Last October the General Accounting Office released a report castigating government agencies as well as businesses for poor security practices, and it argued that even vital services such as national defense, law enforcement and air traffic control could...