The dos and don’ts of talking to the laid off

Holly G. Green, owner of management consulting firm The Human Factor, offers some dos and don’ts for talking with unemployed friends and family.

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Terms to use and avoid when talking about terrorism

Some do's and don't's from the National Counterterrorism Center:

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Hackers identifying themselves as "Anonymous" launched a denial-of-service attack Wednesday against a web site for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to protest a government proposal to filter internet content, according to the Australian Associated Press.

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At this point, it's hard to imagine life without the Internet, at least in the developed world. But buried underneath the breathtaking Web applications and streaming media that we use on a daily basis, the actual software that makes the Internet work is starting to show its age.

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A Russian activist blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial of service attack that led to the site-wide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was in India this week to promote global citizen & public diplomacy. On Monday, she gave a speech at the University of Delhi.

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In life I found that when one becomes overy confident is exactly the period before a fall. Be careful. All things in economy become comodities, including operating systems.

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On April 2 the giant domain name registrar Register.com suffered an hour or two's worth of DNS problems. Now its confirmed that all thier servers are down, including the www.register.com website itself. Employees of Register.com are still in denial. A DDoS attack may be to blame.

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The U.S. State Department re-signed the security firm formerly known as Blackwater despite Iraq saying it didn't want the company there, records show.

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A denial-of-service attack that limits the number of SMS messages that can be received by Nokia smartphones has been disclosed and demonstrated.

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This is very preliminary right now, and we're still working on getting all of the details.

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From carefully targeted denial-of-service attacks to fake websites with false polling place addresses, online voter-suppression tactics could wreak unprecedented havoc on the November election, according to a new report released Monday by a group of privacy and election protectio …

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In the end, it was hackers at DefCon that got hacked. After three days of software cracking duels and hacking seminars, self-described computer ninjas at the infamous gathering in Las Vegas found out Sunday that their online activities were hijacked without them catching on.

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Through my late 20s I was with the girls all the way, even though I often thought their romantic choices were misguided, obviously wrong, spiritually and psychologically clueless, superficial, selfish, and jaded.

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The message to top Microsoft Corp. executives wasn't that different from many others -- written by an aggravated Windows user who simply wanted to install a piece of the company's software on his computer. Except that it was Bill Gates venting his frustrations.

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"Amazon.com suffered a fresh round of outages on Monday amid speculation that it was under a denial of service attack.

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As many of you know, Revision3's servers were brought down over the Memorial Day weekend by a denial of service attack. It's an all too common occurrence these days. But this one wasn't your normal cybercrime – there's a chilling twist at the end.

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Several websites run by RFE/RL's broadcast services have been hit by an unprecedented cyberattack, making them inaccessible to the outside world.

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The 145 systems are:- 3 Dos 5 Windows 137 Linux

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The DOS box is dead, and so is its replacement

The DOS box is dead, long live the DOS box!

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This war has been ongoing at a low level for quite some time, but now looks likely to step up a level, with a formal declaration of 'war' on critical Western IT infrastructure.

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This guy's crazy. Crazy. And has way too much time.

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Well duh, those of us who were around at the time knew this in spades. There was even CP/M source code floating around that was compatible with the 8088 processor with minimal reassembly or change. Good to see this validated in court.

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Speculation over the state of relations between the Kyrgyz and American governments is nothing new in the media, especially where the US Ganci airbase at Bishkek's Manas International Airport is concerned.

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More than 1 million computers - possibly yours, too - are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information.... The government has no way to track down all the computers, both in the U.S.

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NATO sent experts to Estonia immediately. Finland has so far been a distant observer of the recent denial-of-service (DoS) attacks launched against Estonia's computer networks.

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The website of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) was hit on Monday and Tuesday by at least three denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which effectively paralysed the site's service for short periods. First indications, according to F-Secure expert Mikko Hyppönen, wer …

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