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...potential threats is as wide as the imagination. The same could be said for vulnerabilities to the computers we depend on. Families must guard their computers against novice vandals planting viruses or against more advanced intruders leeching your computing power to launch a cyberattack on someone else. Despite the spate of devastating viruses this year--Slammer in January, Blaster and Sobig in August--the threat has evolved past the 17-year-old hacker, past the lone thief who steals and reveals credit-card data. Businesses must now watch for organized-crime groups adept at lifting valuable, private information and extorting...
Organized by Women In Color, the event will bring themes such as gender, race, class and sexuality together with riveting art and entertainment. Student performers include new band Forced Premise (comprised of four Lampoon dudes) and singer-songwriters Liz Carlisle and Juliet Girard, as well as a spate of spoken word artists. Promises to be a funky and liberating show, with complementary coffee and donuts. 8 p.m. Friday. $3 door. Winthrop...
...possible that the radioactive traces are the result of contamination. "We're not any further along," one told TIME. It's a Crime SOUTH AFRICA A government inquiry into attacks on white farmers concluded that most were criminal, not racial, acts. The inquiry was launched in 2001 after a spate of violent assaults on white landowners raised fears of a Zimbabwe-style land grab. Although nearly 1,500 white farmers have been murdered since 1991, the inquiry revealed that only 2% of the attacks were racially or politically motivated. Stoning Overturned NIGERIA A woman convicted for adultery and sentenced...
...virus could be spreading undetected through people who carry it without developing symptoms, only to become deadly again during the colder months. (Scientists theorize that SARS cases might spike in the winter, as cold and flu viruses do.) Like a Trojan horse, the revitalized virus could produce a sudden spate of cases, challenging even the best-prepared health-care systems. That's a worst-case scenario, but managing Asia's next medical crisis will require determination and imagination...
...notice came two weeks after the initial launch of houseSYSTEM—which promised to allow students to trade textbooks, give feedback about classes and check e-mail—and followed a spate of e-mails over the Lowell House open e-mail list, debating the possible security risks of using the portal...