ISR News: FBI Probes Financial Crisis

February 12, 2009 by ADMIN · 1 Comment

Excerpts From ABCNews.go.com’s Jason Ryan

The 38 companies, he said, “are significantly large companies, businesses everyone knows about but I cannot comment publicly.” Pistole’s comments suggested widespread criminal activity among many of the nation’s corporate giants.

Harvard Prof. Harry Lewis “Blown to Bits”

February 12, 2009 by ADMIN · 1 Comment

Article By DemocracyNow.org

Almost everything we now do on a regular basis, from sending emails, taking photographs, writing text messages, calling on our cell phones, downloading music, typing on our computers, and using our credit and ATM cards, all of it generates information. And every single day the endless information generated by our ever-expanding digital footprints is recorded, tracked, searched through, sold, analyzed, and saved forever.

Geithner Appointment Clears Landscape

February 10, 2009 by ADMIN · 1 Comment

By Kevin M. Nixon, Information-Security-Resources.com Security Editor

Despite the enactment of the USA PATRIOT ACT, which was to strengthen the Banking Secrecy Act and both of which were supposed to follow the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), when all that helicopter dust finally settled, an audit showed that all of the puzzle pieces had been placed on the table, but none of the old guard had done anything to actually make the security really work.