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Cyberspies are also targeting regular citizens. News headlines regularly tell of hackers ransacking computer networks for Social Security numbers, banking information and other data that could be used for potential identity theft. One recent example: officials at the University of California, Berkeley, said in May that hackers stole the Social Security numbers of 97,000 students, alumni and others during a six-month breach of the school's computer system. Other computer vandals have caused physical harm. A forum run by the Epilepsy Foundation had to be shut down last year after online intruders, in perhaps the nastiest prank...
...most theft-worthy holdings, of course, are the big guns: the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. But would-be thieves have their work cut out for them. Both documents-which were transported from the Library of Congress to the Archives in 1952 via armored car-are displayed in hermetically sealed cases filled with inert argon gas. They are periodically inspected for damage with help from an electronic imaging monitoring system created by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory-the same folks who send rockets to the moon. On view in the historic Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom, they are also...
...reports in the first quarter of this year, up from 14% in the same period in 2007. While reports of problems such as harassment, discrimination or health and safety transgressions saw "no appreciable increase," according to Luis Ramos, CEO of the Network, the number of whistle-blowers reporting fraud, theft or the misuse of company assets is "going up dramatically...
...trying to preserve their interest, their cash, their asset position," says Patel. "And because of looking at their businesses, they're starting to find more fraud." So, too, are company liquidators. With insolvencies among U.K. companies rising amid the downturn, disqualification proceedings against the firms' directors for fraud or theft rose 72% in the year to April, according to figures compiled by London law firm Wedlake Bell...
...what's the deal? Are rental-car break-ins as rampant in the Aloha State as mock luaus? And if so, are rental agencies knowingly renting theft-prone cars...