UK.gov launches virus advice site
The News Review:
- UK.gov launches virus advice site
- EDITORIAL: H2A rocket launch
- Arafat signs again for Saltires
- With Jaafari Or Allawi, What’s Next For Iraq?
- Local News | News for Charlotte, North Carolina | WCNC.com | North…
UK.gov launches virus advice site
Register – Feb 24, 2005
Users can sign up to receive alerts by either text or email. The service is funded by the Home Office and uses information provided by the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) – the Government’s centre for electronic defence. An estimated 13m UK homes have net access. As professional cyber criminals have turned their attention towards exploiting security weaknesses in the consumer market to distribute spam or in phishing attacks the need for an IT security advice site has grown…
The service is funded by the Home Office and uses information provided by the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) – the Government’s centre for electronic defence. An estimated 13m UK homes have net access. As professional cyber criminals have turned their attention towards exploiting security weaknesses in the consumer market to distribute spam or in phishing attacks the need for an IT security advice site has grown.
EDITORIAL: H2A rocket launch
Asahi Shimbun – Feb 24, 2005
Unless a new weather satellite is put into orbit soon, meteorologists will have a hard time trying to accurately forecast this year’s rainy and typhoon seasons. Other Asian nations, which also depended on the Himawari, must be waiting eagerly the satellite launch. Japan’s first large, home-grown rocket series started with the H2 rocket. After five successful H2 launches in a row, two back-to-back failures followed. This moved up the timing of the first H2A launch, which took place in 2001. Like the H2 rockets, the H2A launches also had five consecutive launch successes, followed by one failure. The failed November 2003 mission marked the sixth rocket launch in the H2A series.
Arafat signs again for Saltires
BBC News – Feb 24, 2005
Scotland will travel to Ireland in July for the ICC Trophy, where they will compete for one of five 2007 World Cup berths. They will be without Arafat, who as a Pakistani does not qualify for the national team. Sri Lanka star Sanath Jayasuriya had expressed interest in joining the Saltires, but the club opted to go with just one overseas player in order to give home-grown talent a chance. Arafat, who has has made two one-day international appearances, said: “I greatly enjoyed my experience with the Saltires,”I’m sure we will show once again this year that we can compete at this level and that we will win several of our matches in style. The 23-year-old has also signed for a fifth season as the professional at Clydesdale Cricket Club. The England and Wales Cricket Board is revamping its domestic one-day competitions from 2006, and the Totesport League will not involve the Saltires. Their 2005 Totesport League campaign gets under way on 1 May with a home game against Durham Dynamos…
The 23-year-old has also signed for a fifth season as the professional at Clydesdale Cricket Club. The England and Wales Cricket Board is revamping its domestic one-day competitions from 2006, and the Totesport League will not involve the Saltires. Their 2005 Totesport League campaign gets under way on 1 May with a home game against Durham Dynamos.
With Jaafari Or Allawi, What’s Next For Iraq?
Angus Reid Global Scan – Feb 24, 2005
On election day, the change in tactics was evident, as Iraqi security forces took the lead role in securing polling stations. Placing home-grown officers on the front line is part of a deliberate strategy meant to shift perceptions among the Iraqi people. humansecuritygateway.
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WCNC – WCNC (subscription) – Feb 24, 2005
Analyst Colin McGranahan, who follows both Lowe’s and Home Depot for Bernstein & Co. in New York, remained impressed with Lowe’s, saying the company has grown at a faster pace in recent years than much-larger Home Depot. “They have grown their square footage at a materially higher rate, which has been in the mid-teens compared with high single digits for Home Depot,” he said. “And their comps (sales at stores open at least a year) have been consistently higher” for the past four years, McGranahan added. “They are a smaller business and a faster growth business,” he said of Lowe’s. “Both of these companies are doing a great job, but Home Depot has been in transition over the last couple of years while they are reinvesting and revitalizing their stores. In a conference call with industry analysts, Lowe’s chairman and chief executive Robert Niblock pointed to growth in same-store sales as an indication the company is headed in the right direction.