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Indian police get jungle warfare training
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:16 PM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India has asked its state governments to provide jungle warfare training to its police personnel to counter Maoist insurgents. -
DHS announces IPA grants
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:13 PM
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Grants to aid cities in the event of terrorist attacks or natural disasters were announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. -
Record year against organized crime
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:12 PM
LONDON, May 16 (UPI) -- British officials say 2007-2008 was a record year in the war on drugs, according to an annual report by the Serious Organized Crime Agency.
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Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 16, 2008 at 9:16 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Sabaah newspaper said Friday in its editorial that observers of the political process in Iraq today cannot illustrate it or acknowledge its aims or intentions, which turns the process of analyzing it into something close to a guessing game. -
German industry targeted by Russian spies
Published: May 16, 2008 at 8:56 PM
By STEFAN NICOLA
UPI Germany Correspondent
BERLIN, May 16 (UPI) -- The German government has accused foreign intelligence services -- blaming mainly Russian agents -- of having spied on German companies. -
Feature: U.S. cites attacks despite truce
Published: May 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- A new cease-fire has been declared between the Iraqi government and Shiite gunmen of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, but U.S. and Iraqi forces say their troops are still coming under attack in Sadr City. -
Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors. -
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game
Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 15 (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. -
Iraq press roundup
Published: May 15, 2008 at 7:20 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Mashriq newspaper had an editorial Thursday titled "Last lines for the chaotic months" that said although Iraq has been in a war for five years, the government in the last few weeks has been chaotically carrying out quick military operations and offensives in many cities and areas around the country.
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IRS slow to fix computer security threats
Published: Jan. 9, 2008 at 3:13 PM
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The confidentiality of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's financial processing systems could be threatened if information security controls aren't fixed.
Officials say the IRS has fixed only 29 of 98 weaknesses in its information security controls, which if left untouched could threaten the reliability of taxpayer and financial data, Federal Computer Week reported.
The backlog of information security controls weaknesses is a result of the IRS reacting slowly to an agency-wide information security program that would make sure that controls are effectively established and maintained, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report after a recent GAO evaluation of IRS data security.
"As a result, IRS is at increased risk of unauthorized disclosure, modification or destruction of financial and taxpayer information," Gregory Wilshusen, GAO's information security issues director, said in a statement.
Despite recent IRS upgrades for user identification controls, the development of security for key financial systems and upgraded servers among other improvements, officials say the IRS has not resolved approximately 70 percent of potential identified weaknesses.
"We recognize that there is significant work to be accomplished to address our information security deficiencies, and we are taking aggressive steps to correct previously reported weaknesses and improve our overall information security program," Linda Stiff, acting IRS commissioner, recently said in a written statement.
Officials say the IRS has fixed only 29 of 98 weaknesses in its information security controls, which if left untouched could threaten the reliability of taxpayer and financial data, Federal Computer Week reported.
The backlog of information security controls weaknesses is a result of the IRS reacting slowly to an agency-wide information security program that would make sure that controls are effectively established and maintained, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report after a recent GAO evaluation of IRS data security.
"As a result, IRS is at increased risk of unauthorized disclosure, modification or destruction of financial and taxpayer information," Gregory Wilshusen, GAO's information security issues director, said in a statement.
Despite recent IRS upgrades for user identification controls, the development of security for key financial systems and upgraded servers among other improvements, officials say the IRS has not resolved approximately 70 percent of potential identified weaknesses.
"We recognize that there is significant work to be accomplished to address our information security deficiencies, and we are taking aggressive steps to correct previously reported weaknesses and improve our overall information security program," Linda Stiff, acting IRS commissioner, recently said in a written statement.
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